Comments on: An impromptu OpenSuse install

By: Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper

Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper — Tue, 27 Sep 2005 17:24:27 +0000

Awesome! Thanks for letting me know, Ted!

By: Ted Haeger

Ted Haeger — Tue, 27 Sep 2005 16:41:52 +0000

I ran into several similar issues in getting VMware Workstation working, so I decided to document the whole thing on opensuse.org. There is now a complete page detailing how to do the install. Hope this does the job of de-mystifying the process. --Ted

By: Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper

Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper — Sun, 25 Sep 2005 16:49:32 +0000

Ahh, you’re welcome, DarkMind. Glad it could be of use. =:)

By: DarkMind

DarkMind — Sun, 25 Sep 2005 16:25:51 +0000

thanks for the vmware’s tip

By: Arno

Arno — Thu, 25 Aug 2005 14:23:25 +0000

I redownloaded the 5 CDs using the torrent … I’m at work and the network is really fast.

By: Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper

Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper — Thu, 25 Aug 2005 14:15:44 +0000

What mirror did you use for updating to beta 3? =:)

By: Arno

Arno — Thu, 25 Aug 2005 14:01:48 +0000

No problem updating to beta 3 for me !
And thanks for your help about the multimedia stuff. I’ll try it right now !

By: Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper

Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper — Thu, 25 Aug 2005 13:52:16 +0000

Hey there!=:) I need to update to beta 3 today. =:)

And yeah, I agree–for a beta, this is really pretty stable stuff!

As far as multimedia goes… I beat my head against trying to get it all to work for a good couple of hours. I ended up following a post I found on the forums and removing everything that I had that was xine-related and installing most everything from here: http://cambuca.ldhs.cetuc.puc-rio.br/xine/ and then going back and installing kaffeine, amarok-xine, etc., from yast.

About the only nit that I have remaining with multimedia so far is that xine is unable to use xv as the video out. If I try to use it, I get a blue screen. I had to change it to use Xshm instead and it seems to be working okay with that. I’m guessing that it’s something messed up with how opensuse has set up X, but I don’t know what it is.

By: Arnaud

Arnaud — Thu, 25 Aug 2005 12:03:39 +0000

You’re perfectly right. I’m now running openSUSE 10.0 beta 3, and it’s the best distro I’ve tried. There are just a few problems with multimedia that can be easily solved by adding a few packages. I’m very surprised since I thought this beta version would be very buggy …

And thanks for the VMware tip ! I’d looked for a solution for a few days !