Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4344 mails)

["Gil Weber" <gil@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

** Reply to message from BandiPat <penguin0601@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> on Wed, 10 Aug
2005 23:31:34 -0400


> Ok, Gil, so you've ran sax2 -l -m 0=nv numerous times without success.  
> now have you tried just sax2 -r or sax2 -l alone?  Have you moved, 
> renamed or deleted graphics config files to see if any were getting in 
> way of you setting your graphics cards?  PCI graphics cards are not 
> rocket science, so there has to be a simple explanation to the trouble 
> you are having.  If it's not working, there must be something getting 
> in the way of it not doing so.  Have you tried the SuSE Eval disc?  
> That too is a diagnostic cd such as Knoppix, only newer stuff to work 
> with.
> 
> regards,
> Lee


Lee, thanks for the help. I really do appreciate it. But things are not going
well here. Sorry for the length of this reply and the multiple rants contained
in it.

I do not know what a SuSE Eval disk is. Is that a disk I need to make myself?
Is it included with the 9.3 disks? I know nothing about an Eval disk or how to
use it.

I have not tried sax2 -r or sax2 -l. 

I have not moved, renamed, or deleted graphics files since I don't know what
specifically I should be looking for. Several folks on the list have been kind
enough to post things for me to look at -- for example looking to see if my
monitor is identified by name or is listed as generic.

But on my own I don't know what to look for, and I would not know good from
possibly corrupted info if I knew where to look.

So I go along very, very slowly. Sorry, I really am trying to grasp all of
this. But it's just not happening for me.

I have done 5 clean installs of 9.3 over the past few days. That hasn't helped,
and it's probably been wasted effort, but everyone seems to be saying that I
have residual problems left behind. I don't know how that can be after a clean
install, but doing a clean install is all I know to do since I assume (???)
that it should clean any residual problems during the process. Apparently that
is not the case as I am still having the same problems with 2 video cards that
everyone thinks should work.

At the same time I am also trying to figure out why my video clips (.wmv, .mpg.
mov. .avi etc) won't play, or won't play with sound. Everything worked
perfectly in 9.2 but now it's all gone into the toilet. And video clips that
previously played from Firefox no longer play. 

Previously I had kaffeine, mplayer, totem, and xine loaded and working. Now,
none of them seem to be working properly.

I have downloaded every multimedia rpm I can find from pacman's site. I have
installed and uninstalled and reinstalled the video players. However, even
after this last massive install of rpms I get so many failed dependencies that
it's driving me nuts. For example, it says I need libwx_gtk2-2.4.so.0

I've searched pacman and I've searched using google. Have not found it. Lots of
references to the rpm, but I can't find the rpm itself.
Does it actually go by another name?

Same thing with another dependency identified as xshared. I get this message:
<xshared is needed by xine-ui-aa-0.99.3-0.pm.0>

A google search of xshared got me nowhere. Now, if I need to look for the rpm
under a different name, well....  

More problems.... I tried to swap the floppy drive for another that was
supposed to have better access speed, but the new floppy did not work. Could
not get 9.3 to recognize it. I have no idea why.

And when I put the original one back in the pooter now that one is not working.
When I right click on the floppy icon I notice that under properties/ownership 
**nothing** is listed. User is blank and group is blank. How can that be?

When I left click on the floppy icon I get two windows. The first is titled
<Mounting /dev/fd0> and it shows 0%. The second is titled <Error - Konqueror>
and in the window it shows "The process for the media protocol died
unexpectedly."

I have no idea where to begin trying to fix this problem.

So it's one thing after another with this 9.3 install. It's been an absolute
disaster -- the worst upgrade ever, and we've purchased every release of SuSE
starting with 7.0.

And through all of this I am trying to work and have a life. 

Sorry for the rant.

Seriously discouraged.  :o(
Gil