Comments on: Sneak Peeks at openSUSE 11.1: Improved Installation, Easier Administration

By: Bob Smits

Bob Smits — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 23:37:49 +0000

I agree with the other comments about the 11.1 partitioner’s usability. One options that should be added is the option to just use all the existing partitions the way they are without shrinking them or otherwise moving them. Then all I need to do is set my /home not to be formatted and I’m ready.

The other problem area is Yast software management. Someone thinks it’s a feature to have the software managment module simply disappear when it’s done installing the currently selected software, even if you have a lot more to install. This isn’t a feature – IT’S A BUG!

Bob

By: Tommyo

Tommyo — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 13:10:24 +0000

broadcom drivers have been even easier right out of the box for 11.0 and I assume will be for 11.1 too. No need for ndiswrapper anymore, as broadcom released a binary, and the packman repos include it. Just add package b43 and you should be good to go.

By: Drew Smith

Drew Smith — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 22:02:05 +0000

I have just started to use Suse (I am a regular Fedora user) – it tool me while to get the wireless card in my laptop to work bc43XX. I used fwcutter to get it to eventually work,

Is there better support for my wireless card in this upgrade or will I have the same problems again?

By: hoshi

hoshi — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 14:01:58 +0000

Got DVD today, made an Update on my Lenovo Thinkpad R61 from 11.0 ti 11.1

All Works like befor!

Great work!

By: JoeTheCowboy

JoeTheCowboy — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 13:42:01 +0000

RE: Comment by “Cae” above — I just bought a Lenovo Ideapad S10 and have the same question. Can I expect 11.1 to install and work on this netbook? I’ll be installing using an external USB DVD drive.

By: Adrian

Adrian — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 11:56:31 +0000

Darren

If you are using the closed source ATI drivers make sure that you diable the ‘atieventsd’ daemon. This is loaded when you install the proprietary drivers but as far as I (or others) can tell it has no function other than hang to during log ins/outs and so kill the X server.

Go to Yast >> System >> System Settings (runlevel) , and choose to disable it.

By: Cae

Cae — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 11:01:23 +0000

One important thing is whether it will work Out-Of-The-Box with the netbooks, e.g. the Asus EEE 1000H that comes with 802.11n (rt2860 & WPA of course) and bluetooth.

By: fabrice

fabrice — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 10:47:01 +0000

Hi! I have installed and tested test 11.1 RC1 64bit on my Dell Optiplex 960. No problem at installation, but just atfter restart with the login screen: the xserver cannot be started.
My graphic card is an ATI Radeon 3470 HD with dual display port connectors (with adapter for DVI) and my screen is a Dell 2408WFP.
It works when I boot into the failsafe mode, of course!
Have anyidea?

By: Darren

Darren — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 10:18:21 +0000

I’m hoping that hardware support will also include older devices like the Sound Blaster Audigy LS (SB0312) with full Game/MIDI port & audio I/O support. At the moment, it shows up in the hardware, but still doesn’t work, no matter how much I fiddle with the sound settings, so I have to use the onboard sound as my primary sound card instead to get audio on Linux.

By: Beineri

Beineri — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 08:40:41 +0000

openSUSE doesn’t use meta-packages for several versions now. Instead we have patterns. You can easily add more (desktop) patterns by changing the software selection on the installation option summary screen.