I installed and configured SUSE 10.1 (x86_64 version) from the retail DVD. I basically upgraded the existing SUSE 9.3 Pro x86_64 installation to 10.1. Perhaps the problems detailed below are due to the upgrade (as opposed to installing SUSE 10.1 from scratch). Overall, SUSE 10.1 at the moment (and this could change) feels like a step back on my machine. This is not surprising since SUSE 9.3 Pro was very close to perfect. Hardware: ASUS A8V Deluxe (Socket 939) with onboard Marvel gigabit card. onboard Realtek sound, AMD 3000+ CPU, 1GB DDR 3200 RAM, 200GB ATA drive, nVidia Quadro 2 Pro (ELSA GLoria III) videocard, Samsung 172T 17" LCD, Soundblaster Live! soundcard. During hardware detection, the Soundblaster card was not detected in Yast and this led to subsequent problems. Other than that, installation via the upgrade route was smooth except when it came to registration. The registration process got stuck in a weird loop and I had to kill the browser by logging into a virtual console. After logging in, I tried to set up the Soundblaster soundcard. Yast did not detect it though despite the fact that it shows up when I do lspci -v (file attached). I noticed that Yast no longer gives you the option of downloading the Microsoft fonts and the nVidia drivers. Since I have an older "legacy" nVidia card, I downloaded the 7174 x86_64 version of the driver (which is the correct one as per nVidia's website) and tried to compile it. No dice since the compilation exits with numerous errors. Looks like I'm stuck with the nv driver. I couldn't find synaptic (apt gui) but found smart instead. Looks like smart will eventually (if it is not abandoned half way through like synaptic) be pretty good. Abandoning reasonably functioning software is a disturbing trend in linux with apt/synaptic being a good example of that trend. kaffeine, MPlayer and totem all behave strangely, segfaulting all over the place despite libdvdread, libdvdcss being installed. libdvdread throws up numerous errors. Hopefully, these will start working eventually. In comparison, the videocard with 7174 x86_64 nvidia driver and the SB Live! soundcard driver installed correctly in SUSE 9.3 Pro. Most multimedia software (kaffeine, MPlayer etc.) also worked reasonably well. Anand
On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 12:14:59PM -0400, Anand Rangarajan wrote:
I installed and configured SUSE 10.1 (x86_64 version) from the retail DVD. I
<snip> Do not take this as a flame. It is intend to get you the best support for now and in the future. openSUSE is the comunity and SUSE is the distribution. This means that this openSUSE mailinglist is about the community. The mailinglist for technical help is on *suse-linux-e*
From http://en.opensuse.org/Communicate#SUSE_Linux_Mailing_Lists : # opensuse for general discussion about the openSUSE (development) project. # For general questions related to released SUSE Linux versions # (eg. 9.3, 10.0) please use suse-linux-e
Please take a look at http://en.opensuse.org/Communicate to see wich list is exactly for what purpose. Again, this is not a flame. This is intended to bring you to the correct place so you will get better help _and_ to keep this list free from unwanted treads. Thanks and I hope you will soon find a solution. -- houghi http://houghi.org http://www.plainfaqs.org/linux/ http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html
Today I went outside. My pupils have never been tinier...
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On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 12:14:59PM -0400, Anand Rangarajan wrote:
I installed and configured SUSE 10.1 (x86_64 version) from the retail DVD. I
<snip> Do not take this as a flame. It is intend to get you the best support for now and in the future.
openSUSE is the comunity and SUSE is the distribution. This means that this openSUSE mailinglist is about the community. The mailinglist for technical help is on *suse-linux-e*
From http://en.opensuse.org/Communicate#SUSE_Linux_Mailing_Lists : # opensuse for general discussion about the openSUSE (development) project. # For general questions related to released SUSE Linux versions # (eg. 9.3, 10.0) please use suse-linux-e
Please take a look at http://en.opensuse.org/Communicate to see wich list is exactly for what purpose.
Again, this is not a flame. This is intended to bring you to the correct place so you will get better help _and_ to keep this list free from unwanted treads.
Thanks and I hope you will soon find a solution.
Thanks houghi, perfect example of how to keep this list clean from technical questions :D (we'll see whether it works or not on the long run ;)) cheers - -- -o) Pascal Bleser http://linux01.gwdg.de/~pbleser/ /\\ <pascal.bleser@skynet.be> <guru@unixtech.be> _\_v The more things change, the more they stay insane. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEcjNBr3NMWliFcXcRAiACAKCHVD8Iuk5ENvd5qclCCiaKpDz1ZACfbIfq G1nuk8fODP2yccxIS1E14uA= =Ivk0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 11:55:13PM +0200, Pascal Bleser wrote:
Thanks houghi, perfect example of how to keep this list clean from technical questions :D
No problem. I try to limit posting to one per day.
(we'll see whether it works or not on the long run ;))
It can only improve if the ercetage of openSUSE postings goes up. I know how we can do that (forums anybody. :-) -- houghi http://houghi.org http://www.plainfaqs.org/linux/ http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html
Today I went outside. My pupils have never been tinier...
<snip> Do not take this as a flame. It is intend to get you the best support for now and in the future.
Thanks for the warning. I will not ask technical questions again on this forum. Anand On 5/22/06, houghi <houghi@houghi.org> wrote:
On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 11:55:13PM +0200, Pascal Bleser wrote:
Thanks houghi, perfect example of how to keep this list clean from technical questions :D
No problem. I try to limit posting to one per day.
(we'll see whether it works or not on the long run ;))
It can only improve if the ercetage of openSUSE postings goes up. I know how we can do that (forums anybody. :-) -- houghi http://houghi.org http://www.plainfaqs.org/linux/ http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html
Today I went outside. My pupils have never been tinier...
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