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add-on ISO for beta 9
by Glenn Holmer 01 Apr '06

01 Apr '06

I just did an install of beta 9, and I was able to get the installer to recognize the add-on CD (...Addon-BiArch.iso) at the beginning, but he made me swap numerous times between CD 1 and the add-on CD during install. This won't happen in the final version, will it? -- Glenn Holmer (Linux registered user #16682) "I love virtuosity. I love danger." -Pierre Boulez, 2005

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SUSEPlugger or KDEPlugger?
by Nathaniel Dube 01 Apr '06

01 Apr '06

I noticed the newer KDE has a little doo-dad that does the same thing as SUSEPlugger. I don't know if I'm using the proper terms, but when you put in a CD, camera, etc a window pops up asking you what you want to do. If SUSE 10.1 is coming with the newer KDE how is SUSE going to deal with two technologies that does the same thing? If you update KDE on SUSE 10.0 you have two things popping up when I put media in. It's kind of annoying. How will this be handled in SUSE 10.1 I hope I explained this clearly. -- Nathaniel Dube njdube(a)gmail.com http://www.freetalklive.com

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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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ftp install can't find package data
by Felix Miata 31 Mar '06

31 Mar '06

I tried 3 times today on two mirrors, mirrors.kernel.org, & ftp.cise.ufl.edu. Each time it failed with: "Cannot read package data from installation media. Media error?" This looks rather like the other thread today about "makeSUSEdvd broken for beta9". -- "Blessed are they whose ways are blameless, who walk according to the law of the Lord." Psalm 119:11 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/

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minimal install don't install
by jdd 31 Mar '06

31 Mar '06

I try to install my extremely lowend laptop :-). from cd, no luck, extremely slow. I could copy the cd (beta 8) on the hard drive and boot from there, with an acceptable speed. I choose minimal text install; problems: a manual install was required. *first for a dependency problem. libX11.so.6 asks for "NX". Accepting this gives tyhe go. why is this not done automatically, I don't know. *second, worst, the time was wrong. I have until now (more than one hour work) unable to pass this. the date is said "le temps est passé" (I think this is "the time is past due". This mean nothing on a computer not net connected (so where does it know the time?). worts there is absolutely no way to change the given time. going to the time menu allows changing the time, but the chage is not transmitted to the previous screen. when coming again in the install, the time is still the same. I even could change the computer date (on an other console), but not passing the install screen so the install was refused by yast... sad jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://dodin.org/galerie_photo_web/expo/index.html http://lucien.dodin.net http://fr.susewiki.org/index.php?title=Gérer_ses_photos

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updating factory
by Felix Miata 31 Mar '06

31 Mar '06

I've been running Mandriva devel (Cooker) for several years. Last week I installed factory from ftp. Now I want to update. This was a simple 2 step process in Cooker: 1-urpmi-update -a; 2-urpmi --auto-select. The options in YaST Control Center don't seem to have an equivalent, and looking on http://en.opensuse.org/ doesn't seem to be getting me anywhere. Can someone please point me to instructions for how this is done in factory? -- "Blessed are they whose ways are blameless, who walk according to the law of the Lord." Psalm 119:11 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/

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Re: makeSUSEdvd broken for beta9
by Azerion 31 Mar '06

31 Mar '06

Sorry, I wasn't root. Now y2pmsh does work. Will do another install-try. ps. Why can you start y2pmsh when you are no root? You can start it but you cannot use it, so why not a root-check? Azerion

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factory
by Peter Czanik 31 Mar '06

31 Mar '06

Hello, What is the current status of factory? Is it now: factory = beta9 and frozen until Monday? Bye, CzP -- CzP http://peter.czanik.hu/

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