Hi Andy! Am Samstag 24 September 2005 04:59 schrieb Andy Choens:
Linux is ready for the desktop....but not on amd64. Gettig this laptop up and running has been a REAL PIA.
None of your problems is x86_64-related. Nearly everything has been discussed on this lists several times before. Look into the archive next time. All your problems are related to closed source or patent restriced software that cannot belong to the OSS version of SUSE 10 because of it's policy to use open software only.
But, I digress.
Any tips for installing ATI drivers on this thing? I've read the past posts of every distro on earth and don't seem to be able to get my 200M up and running.
An ATI driver is included, but 3D is only supported for older ATI chips. Get the closed source driver form ATI yourself or wait for the boxed version of SUSE 10.
Installing libdvdcss seems to be a real joy. I downloaded the source and installed it. But, Kaffeine won't look at the DVD drive b/c it is the special SUSE version. Do I have to recompile kaffeine? I deleted everything in ~/.kde3/share/apps/kaffeine and restarted kaffeine. It recognizes libdvdcss, but refuses to use it. So, I figured I'd just install xine (gui) as a work-around. No dice. It fails out telling me I don't have permisions to view my dvd.
Compile kaffeine and/or xine yourself, or look for packages from other sources, e.g. from Packman. You will not find libdvdcss there, but some multimedia packages with otherwise less restrictions.
I've never had this much trouble getting that to work.
You have only tried boxed version before?
But, the kicker is this. I really like the program basket. It's not on the CD's, but the source rpm is on novell's FTP site for 10. So, I download it and try to rpmbuild. Not surprisingly, I get some dependency errors yast. No problem, I fire up YAST and start installing them. I expected this. What I did NOT expect was to not find the devel package for gettext OR the update-desktop-files rpms. Now this really pissed me off. I can't find these anywhere. I don't mind compiling, but this is ridiculous!
There is no need to rebuild the rpm. There is a binary rpm, too. Use the the Install-Source on the FTP-server to install the program and all dependencys will resolve automatically.
Alright, I'll stop my rant there. This laptop has annoyed me enough for this evening.
Sorry for that, but reading some documentation on opensuse.org and a look into the archives should have saved you much time. Cheers, herbert