Chadley Wilson wrote:
Well let me add a few c's
I have successfully setup and configured 700 Desktops all with full multimedia and that includes DVD, MP3 and so on ...
And where did you get the MP3 support from? From the retail DVD as it was in 9.2? (Don't know about 9.3.) If yes, I didn't find it there. (This is not about OpenSUSE.) Or did you get it from packman? I.e., from a 3rd party SUSE-unsupported package repository? You're all very quick to insult the OP as being an idiot. But you don't mention that there is no MP3 support on the retail DVD any more. And using packman is seriously difficult beyond one-stop downloading - there are no automatic security online updates available via yast, as online_update handles only SUSE repositories. For online updates, one has to resort to (SUSE-unsupported) apt4rpm which is not nice for the general user. If your read the OP again, you see that he quarrels mostly about MP3 and Multimedia (except his boot problem). And concerning this area, the 10.0 retail DVD *is* not good. In fact, my brother (who used SUSE since 5.x!) plans to abandon SUSE exactly for that reason. So the OP is not the only person with that problem. If I'm wrong and if there is MP3 and Multimedia support on the retail DVD, please tell me where. Joachim -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Joachim Schrod Email: jschrod@acm.org Roedermark, Germany