Monday, May 15th, 2006

OpenSUSE 10.1 Notes and Impressions


Impressives

  • SaX2 is unreal – never seen anything so professional on any Linux desktop. Very well done and shows the investment Novell has made in client Linux. Just wish OpenSUSE could find a way to remerge nVidia’s drivers… (see prior rant)
  • Network manager is the best implementation I’ve seen. I can easily switch between wired and wireless networks and it even shows signal strength
  • Alps touchpad support built in – with vertical edge scrolling!
  • Strong mono integration – say what you will about mono, but I like it….
  • No charge for online updates with YOU

Uglies

  • There is very lackluster ndiswrapper support. In order to implement:
  1. Install ndiswrapper
  2. ndiswrapper -i driver.inf
  3. modprobe ndiswrapper
  4. /etc/YaST2 go to Network Devices, Add…, then choose Wireless, module name set to ndiswrapper, then enter any wireless network settings like ESSID.
  • nVidia Drivers don’t work with XEN kernel, but with non-XEN kernel do the following:
  1. Download the latest nVidia drivers and logout of Gnome/KDE
  2. From GDM/KDM login screen, press Alt+F1
  3. Login as root and type “init 3″
  4. Install driver with “sh NVIDIA_version.run -q”
  5. Follow the instructions as the installer builds the kernel module
  6. When back at root prompt type Sax2 and get a working setup
  7. When you exit Sax2, type “init 5″ to get back to GDM/KDM

Tips and Tricks

  • apache2 default html directory is in /srv/www/htdocs which can be accessed at http://localhost
  • apache2 user html directory is in /home/userdir which can be accessed at http://localhost/~username

Posted by md on May 15th, 2006 | Filed in OpenSUSE, Technology | Comment now »



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