I am sending this to the opensuse ML since 13.1 is now RC1 and no longer assoc with Factory. I have very recently tried out openSUSE 13.1 RC1 KDE Live on a Dell OptiPlex 760 with a Radeon HD 3450 (ATI RV620LE) display and two 1280x1024 LCD monitors. I copied the ISO image to a subdirectory on a USB flash memory device and set up booting using GRUB2. Once I figured out the magic incantations for booting from an ISO file (they changed from 12.3), The system booted find and KDE came up on both monitors. I found configuring the system to my liking to be very intuitive and well self-documented and was rather easily get things close to the way I like them. Performance has been snappy and most of the things I've tried out have worked rather smoothly. However, I've encountered a few hurdles and issues that I'd like to report here: 1. There was a Kiwi change that necessitated me splitting the "isofrom=" directive to two directives, "isofrom_device=" and "isofrom_system=" (which makes sense). I was not able to find any documentation on this in the usual places. However, I found enough info in the Kiwi logs to be able to make the change. 2. I can make Kwin crash on demand quite easily. There are several, consistently reproducible cases: - Drag an application window from one monitor to the other. Generally at the time the mouse pointer crosses to the other monitor, kwin crashes. Sometimes it crashes shortly after. If I move the app window half way across, wait a bit, then grab the window from the other side and move it the rest of the way across, I can avoid the crash ... usually. - Open the desktop Pager Settings dialog box, click on the "Virtual Desktops" icon on the Left side, select the "Switching" tab, and set a keyboard shortcut to something that conflicts with an already set shortcut. Kwin will crash when "Apply" is clicked. After kwin is restarted, the dialog WRT the conflict then shows up. In either case, the crash reporter is not able to make a usable stack backtrace, most likely because this is a live instance and so it is not possible to add the packages necessary to generate the backtrace. 3. When I attempted to play a video on youtube using Firefox, I was presented with only the lowest resolution as a choice whereas with the openSUSE 12.3 GM KDE Live image I was able to select any of the available resolutions (including HD) for the same videos. This is all I can remember offhand. I mostly wanted to report the Kwin issue because it doesn't seem to have been reported anywhere and seems rather serious at this late date. --Phil -- Philip Amadeo Saeli psaeli@zorodyne.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org