April 2006 - openSUSE Factory - openSUSE Mailing Lists

dependencies: single-click
by Eberhard Moenkeberg 01 Apr '06

01 Apr '06

Hi, I am just trying to upgrade beta8 to beta9. My crux is: I have to click each single dependency conflict without seeing the total situation. My guess is: impossible. BLOCKER! Beware to ask back, I will immediately shoot all I have. Incredible! It ducks the user to a stupid child. Cheers -e -- Eberhard Moenkeberg (emoenke(a)gwdg.de, em(a)kki.org)

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Broken Packages Due to Patent Laws
by Nathaniel Dube 01 Apr '06

01 Apr '06

I was wondering if anyone could give me a list of every package that is broken in SUSE off the shelf due to patent laws. I all ready know a few of the multimedia packages are, but I'm looking for a complete list. -- Nathaniel Dube njdube(a)gmail.com http://www.freetalklive.com

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Package Sugestions and Driver request for SUSE 10.1
by Nathaniel Dube 01 Apr '06

01 Apr '06

First off, package request. There is a neat program called xtraceroute. It's pretty much eye candy for traceroute but I would like to see it come with SUSE 10.1 This program was once in SUSE 9.1 I would also like to see MythTV come with SUSE 10.1. I have future plans to build a home theater from computer parts and it would be nice that I could just throw in SUSE 10.1 DVD and install MythTV and be up in running in less then an hour. Recently I've come to noticed that SUSE 10.0 has improperly detected my Belkin Wireless G Desktop Card (F5D7000) which after further research says it uses the Broadcom chipset (if memory serves). While SUSE 10 says this... 01:0d.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc.: Unknown device 001a (rev 01) Some one on #suse on Freenode suggested using "ndiswrapper" which I installed but don't know how to use. Regardless I think when SUSE 10.1 comes out it should be able to correctly detect the chipset on my hardware, not just for me but for every one else who buys SUSE 10.1 at their local store. You see, I've noticed that the adapter doesn't perform like it should. I've compared this with using the same card on Windows XP which gives me a better signal strength and the LED on the back lights up like a xmas tree. But when I use it in SUSE 10.0 the LED is dim as hell and I never get a signal strength above 45% It is my theory that SUSE 10.0 isn't using the proper driver and so the software is telling the hardware to basically do a half ass job. While on the subject of hardware. I have a cheesy IBM web cam I got some years ago at Best Buy. It worked (very crappy but it worked) in SUSE 9.3. SUSE 10.0 doesn't seem to detect it now. Was there any difference in 9.3 and 10.0 that would not detect some hardware any more? My philosophy is that SUSE needs to work on hardware compatibility for the most common found hardware at places such as WalMart which is where most people (in the US any way) look for good prices on hardware. Right now at Walmart they have only two vendors for wireless hardware. Lynksys and Belkin. Belkin being the cheaper ones. The adapters selling below $40US. I don't get all my hardware there. I also get a lot from newegg.com. But that's just me. The average Joe gets there stuff from places like WalMart. And I believe for SUSE and Linux in general to be more excepted by the average Joe, then I would say that compatibility with the most common found hardware at the places where the average Joe shops should be on the priority list of hardware compatibility. But that's just my opinion. Just a last note. I've noticed that supplementary updates tend to screw things up. Such as updating KDE. I wondering if there could be some way to have better support for updating packages in SUSE 10.1. And I don't just mean using YOU for patches and such. I think the whole system needs to be changed to it's easier to update packages. I might get flamed for saying this. I tried Ubuntu for about week and I liked the way I could easily update packages to newer version and it didn't break stuff. But after missing YAST I went back to SUSE. I almost forgot. Every distro I ever tried has never been able to autodetect my video setup with out giving me the black screen. I've used SUSE 9.0 to 10.0 and this issue still hasn't been fixed. My mother board comes from some eMachine I had back in 2000. It has not jumper or BIOS setting to turn off the onboard video. It's one of those boards that only turns it off when you put in a video card. I have a nVidia GeForce 2 MX400 chipset on my video card. I always have to edit the xorg.conf manually because sax2 turns my screen black any time I try running it. It would be nice for once if I can install SUSE and have the setup work all the way though the hardware detection. I'm not that experienced with the CLI (YAST has made me lazy) so if any one needs me to type any thing to collect more data, logs, etc about my system to give you better idea of my setup then feel free to ask. I would really like to get these issues sorted out and fixed for future SUSE releases. I love SUSE and really would like to see more people in the US using it. I only give out my GPG key upon request. Spammers where getting my email address from my old one when I submitted it to the key servers. I have a new email and key. If I give you my key I would ask that you keep it to your self. And if you want to email me directly I prefer a signed key and encryption. Thanks every one. -- Nathaniel Dube njdube(a)gmail.com http://www.freetalklive.com

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