This note may help users trying to install SuSE 10.2. This new version of SuSE is very stable, fast, the pack manger works very well, mythtv install with few clicks and works very well. I found almost all positive but because I could not have the dvd burner working with growisofs / wodim /k3b I had to go back to SuSE 10.1. I spent almost a month trying to work on different problems and most solved. Since SuSE 9.0 64 I have never spent so much time to install SuSE. Most could have been solved with a small note in the SuSE 10.2 release notes. --------------- Ref: MSI K8N Neon4 amd fx-55 (64) ide1: Sony ait tape drive as master. Nothing as slave ide2: cd/dvd player as master, cd/dvd +rw as slave sata1: WD raptor sata2: WD raptor sata3: WD raptor sata4: samsung (I do not use raid) haupaugge winTV-pvr 350 pcHDTV ATI Radeon X800 XL 256M ---------------- So I do not have IDE hard disks and all my cd/dvd's are pata 1. Problem 1: unresolved. cd/dvd burning. The cd burns OK. DVD can not copy or burn anything. Changing the module to pata instead of the (amd74xx I believe) allow to burn but the booting produce errors trying to load ata, finally after 5 attempts went through. I tried everything new version, permissions, removing wodim and installing cdrecord etc etc. No luck. Only using the pata module I was able to burn (not all the time) dvds. This all may be related to my system with a mixture of dvd ide and HD sata? Without dvd burning I could not use this distro. 2. Black screen during the initial installation after the first reboot. The only solution I found that works is to select (F3) the resolution supported in my case 1600 x 1200 and install. I am sure this is related to the ati graphic card. But using this trick works well all the time. I have done zillion of installations trying to have this system working so I know by experience :-) 3. I use vmware to run palm desktop for my treo. Because some business program that I can not run under linux or crossover the only way is to load vmware. This was working great in 10.1 but not in 10.2. The usb is caput. After many moon I find out that usbfs has been disable in the kernel for security reason. The solution (AFTER you know it!) is simple just enable usbfs in the kernel and compile it and then works great. 4. I use Evolution as mail client. I also use OO. OO from novell in 10.1 had filter that allow many mail clients including Evolution to link the address books as data source so I could use for letters, envelopes all the data from Evolution. This has been removed from 10.2 and I have not found a way to do it. Of course I can export Evolution to kaddress and then use it under OO but I miss the "live link" so if I add another contact in Evolution I will not see it in OO without exporting to kaddress. What a pain. Evolution does not have an export facility except for Vcards. However there is a hiding program that will do the job: /opt/gnome/lib64/evolution/2.8/evolution-addressbook-export --format=csv

mail_address_book.csv

5. Evolution does not remember the passwords under KDE. This is related to the gnome keyring. Someone post it a fix I believe in this forum. If you do not find it write me and I will post it. 6. If you use mythtv there is a couple of points that may be a little confusing. ivtv is loaded as kernel module if I remember correctly ivtv-pm. Also there is another module to be install called ivtv. This is an rpm for the ivtv tools that are not necessary but important to install it. The mythtv rpm are self explanatory. Remember if you change the kernel you may have to remove the ivtv-pm kernel module and build a module from source for the new kernel (2.6.19). Well I envy all of you that are running 10.2. Hope there is a solution for the dvd in the future and I can joint you. In the meantime I am back to my old friend SuSE 10.1. Ciao -=terry(Denver)=- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org