On Monday 09 March 2009 05:41:46 pm Mukul Singh wrote:
Hi,
Just thought I would let you know my experience of installing Opensuse on my new laptop...
Installed Opensuse 11.1 (x86 32 bit) with KDE 4.1 and then updated to KDE 4.2 Factory via one click install. The fact that KDE 4.1 is not usable is a separate issue in itself.
As my laptop has a NVIDIA 9200 M card, I thought that installing the NVIDIA drivers "easy way", as indicated on opensuse website should be enough. Did that, but no luck. Anyway, I managed to do it via the "hard way". The drivers were installed successfully and things were looking up.
The current problems on my system are :
1. Every time I boot my machine, the sound does not work unless I do alsasound restart.
Hi Mukul, It might be PulseAudio. zypper se pulse Remove all you can see installed except libpulse0 . The kdebase4 depends on it, so simple 'zypper rm pulseaudio' can have unwanted consequence of deinstalling half of KDE. Removing pulseaudio should be workaround until guys fix some problems between alsa and pulseaudio.
2. Kpowersave does not display the battery status properly. -1% charged is what I get all the time. It also does not recognise whether the system is running on a battery or on mains.
Seems also known problem. I found one bug, but I've seen discussion on that topic somewhere. You can help if you add your experience, including laptop model: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=182389
3. The plasma widgets misbehave every now and then, but I can live with that.
A bit more details, please. Not all widgets are of the same quality ie. development status, so being particular in this case is important. Which widget and what it does that you don't expect, or want. -- Regards, Rajko -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org