[opensuse] OpenSuse 10.2 beta 2 - one "feature", one bug
I just started playing around with beta 2 of 10.2. For those who are about to embark on this adventure you might want to know about one "feature" and one bug (which I'll be reporting). Both apply in the installation stage and/or later when you try to use Yast2 Control Centre to get the following 2 things working. The feature: if you deselect, or not select, the button to provide Novell with the Hardware Profile information during the stage when the initial source server for any upgrades is being allocated, this process will not complete -- it doesn't crash -- and you will not be able to even have a list of the software which was installed on your (new) system. During installation this step occurs just after the first test connect to the Internet is performed and you are then asked if you want to "register" your new system. If you skip this step here you can then later use the Yast2 Control Centre>Online Update Configuration option and here, again, if you do not at least select Hardware Profile then the result is a big zero. The bug: if you trying to configure your TV card and try to scan for the available TV stations, this step will fail- no stations are seen. You will probably get an error message stating, "sh: /usr/X11R6/bin/scantv: no such file or directory" . This error message is correct because the scantv file has been taken out of the X11R6 directory and moved to the /usr/bin directory. The quick workaround for this would be to put a symlink in /usr/X11R6/bin/ pointing to scantv in /usr/bin/. Cheers. -- If apathy is increasing, where is it coming from? --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Basil Chupin wrote:
I just started playing around with beta 2 of 10.2. For those who are about to embark on this adventure you might want to know about one "feature" and one bug (which I'll be reporting).
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The bug: if you trying to configure your TV card and try to scan for the available TV stations, this step will fail- no stations are seen. You will probably get an error message stating, "sh: /usr/X11R6/bin/scantv: no such file or directory" . This error message is correct because the scantv file has been taken out of the X11R6 directory and moved to the /usr/bin directory. The quick workaround for this would be to put a symlink in /usr/X11R6/bin/ pointing to scantv in /usr/bin/.
Update. Creating the symlink is only part of the solution. Once the symlink is in place another error message comes up stating that /dev/video0 has been misplaced - and is nowhere to be found :-( . Cheers. -- If apathy is increasing, where is it coming from? --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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Basil Chupin