Comments on: openSUSE checking instrumentation — Prepare for Landing — openSUSE 11.3 RC2 now available!

By: Bill Wayson

Bill Wayson — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 15:22:39 +0000

Balsam: Unterstützung für gängige Multimediaformate und bekannte kommerzielle Softwaretitel translates to Balsam: support for popular multimedia formats, and known commercial software titles in English.

By: wiliamvw

wiliamvw — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 23:16:49 +0000

Why the dropping of “Repair Installed System” from the dvd choices? Box’s manual says it’s there but it isn’t (or did I somehow get sent an oddball dvd?); this makes some necessary file system repairs (“file system not clean”) much more difficult than they need to be.

By: Marcio

Marcio — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 18:13:22 +0000

I also want to know what “balsam extensions” are. No info anywhere.

By: Markus

Markus — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 13:49:41 +0000

Balsam: Unterstützung für gängige Multimediaformate und bekannte kommerzielle Softwaretitel

regards, Markus

By: Martin

Martin — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 09:17:58 +0000

Can someone help me. I have no command line experience. So it would be really helpfull to write the full commands to replace the Nouveau driver with the Nvidia driver. For instance:

how do I write the config file
how do I select the Nvidia driver that I have downloaded.

Many thanks, Martin

By: Larry

Larry — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 13:37:43 +0000

Yes, I vote too for “balsam extensions”. What are they/it?

By: Rainer Hurtado Navarro

Rainer Hurtado Navarro — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 10:32:08 +0000

11.3 looks nice. It is a poor statement; very superficial. I know, but looking nice counts too. I’ll knew more in a few hours time, and I hope that what I came to know be great. However, I was looking around this 11.3, and this new wiki, and I landed on http://en.opensuse.org/Buy_openSUSE. I read “The openSUSE 11.3 Box is delivered with balsam extensions &c.”, and I searched for the meaning of “balsam extensions”, but the only page that talks about them is that one above. Perhaps it is all about that I am 36 hours awake and working, and I am not rendering the English… but I think that I missed something. So, I ask: What does “balsam extensions” mean, please? I thank you all.
Have a nice 11.3 to come!

By: Pockyboy

Pockyboy — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 09:09:02 +0000

Hi Otto
Thanks for your response.
But in fact I’ve done it several times and it doesn’t work.
How I ‘ve said, I have the same problem with Opensuse11.2 which doesn’t include “nouveau” driver.
So I begin to think about a video card trouble.
I will test it on Windows Seven to be sure.

Thanks again for your spent time ;)

By: Otto

Otto — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 07:48:42 +0000

Re Virues in Linux

Just to test I installed googles chromium browser…

anyway I installed the linux virus SW
clamav
clamav-db
klamav (kde gui)

What I found that there was a Trojan in the chromium cache !!!!! watch out that thing may not be safe

cheers Otto

By: Otto

Otto — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 07:25:53 +0000

Hi Pockyboy

I have an ASUS G210 card and it worked…see above….however I used the Default Kernel !!!!
So..via yast install
default kernel
Kernel sources
gcc
make
and as per description from Marius….
This is how i did it.
Step1: Download the nvidia driver from the nvidia website.
Step2: Reboot the system and when the grub menu comes up, write “nomodeset 3″ without the quotes in option field.
Step3: login and become root.
Step4: Blacklist the nouveau module. Insert “blacklist nouveau” without the quotes at the end of “/etc/modprobe.d/50-blacklist.conf”.
Step5: Install the nvidia driver with “sh NVIDIA-Linux-…….run -q”.
Step6: Generate a default xorg.conf with “nvidia-xconfig”.
Step7: Open “/etc/sysconfig/kernel” end set “NO_KMS_IN_INITRD” to “yes”.
Step8: Run “SuSEconfig”.
Step9: Restart the system.

that is the driver I used:
NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-256.35.run

Have fun ….should work…..cheers Otto