Comments on: Development Release: openSUSE 11.1 RC 1 Now Available

By: james

james — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 04:54:53 +0000

Hi
I dld opensuse with kde and it works great, i love the kword beta it is best iteration yet…but have to have oo to translate stuff for microsith, however, cannot get amarok sound…. get a no codec error to play shoutcast streams.. i’ve tried everything libxine you name it. is this just something that will go away in the future or am i missing something, I’ve spent three years with a debian ubuntu distro so….anway…love the whole thing, just need music. By the by…. the sound hardware has been found, the opening and closing sounds play fine.
thanks for the great work
james

By: Bill Fleury

Bill Fleury — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 08:53:58 +0000

The installer requires a minimum of 256mb ram, otherwise it has a kernel panic. You can verify this is it by pressing ctrl-alt-f4 and leaving it on that screen until it crashes.

By: Richard

Richard — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 16:28:13 +0000

I am having the same problem. An old Gateway Solo 3350, Pentium III with 512kb memory, and I get to the “Loading Installation System (2/6) (1 kB) – 100%_” and it freezes and flashes the keyboard lights at me. I ran the checksums and all came out clear, and I’m still having the problem.

By: Andreas Holtmann

Andreas Holtmann — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 18:02:37 +0000

Using SuSE since version 5.2, I must admit it’s becoming pretty by the time. For me as a software developer, it is vital that you do not change the kernel too often without a real urgent need for it, since I have to re-install NVidia graphics driver, VMWare, and Antivir/Dazuko, as well as other self-composed software. It would also be on the wish list to install the _latest_ Java standard release (JDK and JRE) in a standard directory, say /usr/java/ , so all java related installations could rely on that.

Also, it would be nice to find out one or two multimedia players which work in real life. XMMS and VideoLAN are a good combination, but you’re fooling around with different multimedia applications too much. Better try to standardize it, I mean, focus on the best working solution.

Best regards,
Andreas Holtmann, Berlin, Germany

By: Jim Johnson

Jim Johnson — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 19:05:06 +0000

Oops… sorry: I meant to state that the “stable” 11.1 release, as opposed to a “Factory” release, is desirable.
Thanks again;
Jim

By: Jim Johnson

Jim Johnson — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 19:01:01 +0000

I’m writing a little late… seeing as how the full 11.1 release is due to be published tonight. Anyway, I find it amazing how there so many complaining about “bugs” and yet there are also numerous idolizing the release.
For me, I am very happy with what has been published so far. My only complaint is this: The only repo’s/mirrors from which I could get software and updates for 11.1 (RC1) were listed as “Factory release”. Until a few days ago, there were no problems obtaining appropriate software. Then, all of the sudden, I started getting notices about changes/updates to openSUSE 11.2 and KDE 4.2 – not 11.1/4.1.3. I haven’t (as of yet) had any problems, but I’m wondering why this has happened and, when I download the full 11.1 release, how am I going to maintain such? as opposed to a factory release – which is desirable.
Not really looking for an answer – I could always reinstall in a worst case scenario.
Thanks for all the hard work and a job well done – in turn: resulting in an awesome product – “buggy” or not.
Jim

By: Lotlorien

Lotlorien — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 17:04:06 +0000

Could anyone please comment on the following issues:

(1) Compiz
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(a) 2D Performance with NVIDIA
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Compiz used to run fine in 10.3 and 11.0. However, only when I used XGL. Why? As I understand it, Compiz needs some layer or API. This is provided either by XGL or by the hardware of the graphics card. So for newer graphics cards one does not need XGL. However, not using XGL has the disadvantege for me that I have extremely bad (not usable) 2D performance with my NVIDIA card. I heard this is a NVIDIA driver issue. If I use XGL, I think all graphics operations (also 2D) use the 3D engine, therefore with XGL I have good 2D and 3D performance.

Now in 11.1 there is no XGL anymore. Does that mean that I can’t solve he NVIDIA 2D performance issue on openSuSE 11.1? Anyone with experience?

(b) 100% sure to crash it all
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Does this bug: http://forum.compiz-fusion.org/showthread.php?t=9942 still exist in 11.1?

(2) VirtualBox
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Does USB work in VirtualBox-2.0.4 on OpenSuSE-11.1?

(3) Multimedia
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Do all the multimedia codecs (mp3, ogg, DVD, etc.) work on 11.1?

(4) Encryption
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Has any improvevemt taken place in complete system hard disk encryption since 11.0?

(5) Packages
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Are there still missing/unresovled, you name it, package dependencies?

Thanks for any comments.

By: macav

macav — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 11:05:47 +0000

Is there any way how to get bluetooth mouse working in 11.1 rc1 (gnome)? when I do it with bluetooth wizard, it finds my mouse, then it says “connecting to (null)” and then “connected successfully”, but it’s not working. it looks like the mouse isn’t even paired with the laptop. thx for reply

By: Beineri

Beineri — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 17:00:03 +0000

3.5.10 and 4.1.3: http://en.opensuse.org/Featurelist_11.1

By: Shuaib

Shuaib — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 12:45:26 +0000

What version of KDE in 11.1???