Hi all! it's been a while since I last watched the list and a while since OpenSUSE 11.3 hit the market so I installed it yesterday on my desktop PC at home, the same one I used with OpenSUSE 11.0 + patches before the installation: HP xw4200 (3 GB RAM, 64bit dual-core, etc). It was an installation from scratch so I backed up my account and installed everything as new... the installation process went fine (only an error message for a repository, can't remember which one now, sorry) and the system booted. I've been using SuSE since version 5.3 back in 1995-6 (?) and for the first time in so many years I have to say: I'm disappointed with the final result. Reasons for such a bold statement could be many but here I'll list just a few in random order: * I expected KDE 4.x to be faster and lighter but it's not... maybe the next lines are related to this behavior... please read on. * SaX2 is missing in action - if not, please tell me where to find it as YaST2 can't either. The only way to get a dual-head setup up and running with Xinerama on a supported nVidia gfx card with the latest official nVidia drivers/modules (1) was to dig into forums for infos and using some nvidia-* tools I never heard about before. At least I learnt something new in the meantime :-) although I don't know where/how to activate the 3D acceleration... (1) nvidia-gfxG02-kmp-desktop-256.35_k2.6.34.0_12-14.1.x86_64 and x11-video-nvidiaG02-256.35-15.1.x86_64 * some "basic" effects such as the bouncing mouse pointer to provide feedback of an application starting leave a trail across the screen which goes away after a while * similar to the previous point, moving a window across the screen causes the same effect, even with the "don't show contents", etc * in average, the box is much slower when compared to its performance running OpenSUSE 11.0 - even running Folding@Home with 11.0 wasn't that heavy load and it allowed me to run lots of applications, as expected. Changing from one virtual desktop to another or waiting for the menus appearing when you right-click on the Desktop takes ages now... * Kopete, Pidgin and Empathy (haven't tried with aMSN yet) still fail when it comes to using the audio & video features. According to the "About"-menu, those have been compiled in but are shown as grayed out so you cannot select them. No idea why this happens... any library missing? * OpenGL screensavers won't start at all and, as a Hellraiser fan, I'm missing KLament =:-) and many other OpenGL ones... * all the nice Composite effects (wobbly windows, transparencies, etc) are gone and the error message is: --- Compositing is not supported on your system. Required X extensions (XComposite and XDamage) are not available. --- Although I found some links pointing to a solution. i.e.: http://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=111&t=10337 I still can't get them to work. Follows my xorg.conf file: --- $ cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf # nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig # nvidia-xconfig: version 256.35 (buildmeister@builder97.nvidia.com) Wed Jun 16 19:15:05 PDT 2010 # nvidia-settings: X configuration file generated by nvidia-settings # nvidia-settings: version 256.35 (buildmeister@builder97.nvidia.com) Wed Jun 16 19:14:45 PDT 2010 Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "Layout0" Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 Screen 1 "Screen1" RightOf "Screen0" InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer" Option "Xinerama" "1" EndSection Section "Files" EndSection Section "InputDevice" # generated from default Identifier "Mouse0" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "auto" Option "Device" "/dev/psaux" Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" EndSection Section "InputDevice" # generated from default Identifier "Keyboard0" Driver "kbd" EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "Monitor0" VendorName "Unknown" ModelName "HP LP2065" HorizSync 30.0 - 92.0 VertRefresh 48.0 - 85.0 Option "DPMS" EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "Monitor1" VendorName "Unknown" ModelName "HP LP2065" HorizSync 30.0 - 92.0 VertRefresh 48.0 - 85.0 EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "Device0" Driver "nvidia" VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation" BoardName "GeForce 7950 GT" BusID "PCI:1:0:0" Screen 0 EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "Device1" Driver "nvidia" VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation" BoardName "GeForce 7950 GT" BusID "PCI:1:0:0" Screen 1 EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen0" Device "Device0" Monitor "Monitor0" DefaultDepth 24 Option "DynamicTwinView" "True" Option "TwinView" "0" Option "metamodes" "DFP-0: nvidia-auto-select +0+0" Option "AllowGLXWithComposite" "True" SubSection "Display" Depth 24 EndSubSection EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen1" Device "Device1" Monitor "Monitor1" DefaultDepth 24 Option "TwinView" "0" Option "metamodes" "DFP-1: nvidia-auto-select +0+0" Option "AllowGLXWithComposite" "True" SubSection "Display" Depth 24 EndSubSection EndSection Section "Extensions" Option "Damage" "True" Option "Composite" "Enable" EndSection --- maybe someone can shed some light and tell me why the X-server is eating up between 40% and 70% CPU all the time in average... --- top - 01:58:54 up 5:18, 8 users, load average: 1.00, 1.18, 1.91 Tasks: 151 total, 1 running, 150 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu0 : 14.6%us, 2.6%sy, 0.0%ni, 81.1%id, 1.0%wa, 0.3%hi, 0.3%si, 0.0%st Cpu1 : 37.5%us, 2.9%sy, 0.0%ni, 59.6%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Mem: 3219624k total, 2940300k used, 279324k free, 38360k buffers Swap: 2103292k total, 3068k used, 2100224k free, 1945808k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 21316 root 20 0 397m 131m 16m S 44 4.2 3:10.42 Xorg --- ...it's "just" a 44% for this snapshot... Needless to say that all kind of help is more than welcome. Thank you very much in advance! and please apologize this long email... Regards, Martin -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org