I’m looking at some Linux distro releases and thinking about what to put on the T60. I will be nuking the Opensuse 10.3 that’s currently installed and hacked and kluged to an unacceptable point. Package management has been the main problem with Opensuse. Before I blow it out, I’ll try to remember what I did to get the Japanese running.

I keep the main menus English and a uim applet in the taskbar. That way, I can flip on my anthy input on the fly in most any application I have running. I’m dealing with Gnome and mainly GTK2 applications for now. I’ll write more about KDE and QT later, along with something about dealing with a mixed QT/GTK environment.

Package names? Did I mention I wasn’t expecting to keep that install very long and therefore didn’t pay close attention to package names….Uh Oh. I searched the package manager for uim, anthy, and I think, some combination of gtk and anthy. Also, if you want other languages, like Russian, the m17n-lib package should do the trick. A search of my existing packages gives me these: uim-qt, uim-gtk2, uim, anthy, m17n-lib, kasumi

These are all so far advanced upstream that it is pretty easy to find them in any distro (probably BSD’s too!) without being too nit-picky. Of course, package names and what gets packaged with what may vary between distros.

If you use the uim-applet in Gnome, and want to input Japanese in a QT application, like Konqueror, for instance, it should be as easy as selecting xim for input in the application menu. That is, provided you have uim-xim bridge running. That can be automated with a carefully placed script somewhere in your .kde settings tree. I’ll post again with the script I have on my KDE based desktop, which I’m not in front of at the moment. I got it from a Japanese developer’s blog.

However, just to see if it’s working, use the handy trick of running uim-xim in a terminal with an ampersand, then run Konqueror or whatever QT application from the same terminal and try switching the uim-applet to anthy input. That should allow you to input kanji with anthy in the text areas of Konqueror. Sometimes it’s nice just to see that something can be done first, then it’s easier to get into automating it later.

I won’t bother posting my config files. Just play with the options in the uim-gtk2 config menus; they’re pretty self-explanatory. Once you switch the uim-applet to anthy while a gtk app’s window is active, you can then input hiragana by romaji and then select the proper kanji from the pop-up window. There are too many variations in configuration to go into here. I’ll go into more detail about using anthy, uim, kasumi (a dictionary tool for anthy), and company in Gnome and KDE environments in future posts.

Da ich ja Opensuse benutze hier mal eine Beschreibung wie man die streams von Last.fm unter Opensuse auf die Festplatte bekommt.

OpenSuse 10.3

Als erstes benötigt man ein last.fm account, der ist kostenlos und wird hier erstellt.
http://www.lastfm.de/join/

Nachdem ihr den habt könnt ihr mittels Yast (die community repositories werden benötigt und müssen ausgewählt worden sein) thelastripper eingeben.

Wenn ihr schonmal im Yast seid, dann auch gleich noch den lastfm radioplayer installieren, der ist zwar nicht zwingend notwendig, weil alles auch mit amarok erledigt werden kann nur funktionieren in amarok momentan nicht die skip und ban funktionen.

nun findet ihr unter Anwendung/Multimedia/Aufnahme TheLastRipper das Programm, mit einem Klick öffnen und dann eure last.fm Logindaten eingeben.

Dann noch im nächsten Reiter den Ordner aussuchen wo das ganze abgelegt werden soll und close klicken, bei Proxy musste ich nichts eintragen.

draufhin öffnet sich der Ripper und man kann sich die Station auswählen die man mitschneiden möchte, in meinem Fall Mittelalterrock

so weit ich die aktuelle Gesetzeslage kenne müsste das noch legal sein

for the past few weeks i had tried installing realted HD audio drivers in openSUSE10.3 x86_64. Tried downloading and installing many drivers from the realtek site but ended up uninstalling the sound drivers of ALSA(default) so mw and my SUSE had to lead a mute life after a lot of struggling i found out that i just needed a simple suse update that did the trick for me but still i can’t get my 5.1 channel speaker set to work.

by kunalghosh

(kunal ghosh)

In order to provide a better service to the existing openSUSE Community and to our new users, we’re pleased to announce that suseforums.net, suselinuxsupport.de and the openSUSE support forums at forums.novell.com (the three largest English speaking dedicated SUSE forums) are joining forces to merge into the new official openSUSE Forums at forums.opensuse.org.

Behind the scenes, a project team consisting of Novell employees, openSUSE Community members, and existing forums’ staff have been working on this project since the beginning of 2008. The new infrastructure will be hosted by Novell to ensure the highest possible quality of service.Current plans are to migrate the existing active members of suseforums.net and suselinuxsupport.de into the official openSUSE Forums, simultaneously implementing Single Sign On for the whole openSUSE Community. We hope to make the transition as seamless as possible, and will go live Spring 2008. More information will be posted as available.

All in all, a big gain for the whole openSUSE Community.

Opensuse news

K3b (KDE Burn Baby Burn) is a CD and DVD authoring application for the KDE desktop for Unix-like computer operating systems.It Can Also Be Used in Gnome. It provides a graphical user interface to perform most CD/DVD burning tasks like creating an Audio CD from a set of audio files or copying a CD/DVD (Images,Data etc), as well as more advanced tasks such as burning eMoviX CD/DVDs. It can also perform direct disc-to-disc copies. The program has many default settings which can be customized by more experienced users. The actual disc recording in K3b is done by the command line utilities cdrecord or wodim, cdrdao, and growisofs. As of version 1.0, K3b features a built-in DVD ripper.

After Installing K3b :

Features :

Just left-click one of your devices in the device and file tree and see what happens. K3b opens a specific window based on the media’s contents. For an audio CD for example you will be given a list of the tracks with the possibility to rip these tracks to any format supported by K3b (like mp3 or Ogg-Vorbis).

…that K3b lets you choose media instead of devices for burning. So if you want to burn to a certain medium simply insert it and wait for K3b to detect it. It will then appear as your burning medium ,there are many features of this wonderful software which i can’t explain one by one.

Click the screen shot to enlarge

Source Codes are Available.

Binary Packages are Available For Linux Users using :-

ArchLinux

ArkLinux

Debian
Fedora

Kubuntu or ubuntu

Mandriva

Slackware
Suse

CCux

PC-BSD

*Freebsd package are also available.

Download K3B From Here

*You can Also Make The Donations Here

Happy DiscWriting.

Virtualization programs, such as those from VMware, bring you closer to the more ideal solution of using both systems at once, but one is always the host and one is always the guest, shown inside a window. But by combining VMware Server with some free software, you can run Windows XP along with Linux, not inside a console window, but completely integrated into the Linux environment.

Required Applications :

1)VMware

2)rdesktop.

Check if rdesktop is Intalled or Not.

For Gnome or Kde :

Open ->Terminal

and Type the command :
rdesktop

If It Show You the Output.(it means rdesktop is Already installed,Other wise it throw an Error :bash command not Found)

First of All Get Serial No. of VMware by Filling the Form Below,it is Free of Charge and Never Expires :-

http://register.vmware.com/content/registration.html

Fill up the Form and You will receive the Serial Number Immediately after Clicking the Submit Button.

Note :->VMware Server Need Serial Number Between the Installation ,So You must copy it and Save it Before Starting VMware Installation.

VMware Installation :

If You r Debian/Ubuntu Users Open Your Synaptic Package Manager :->

System->Administration-> Synaptic Package Manager

Search for VMware-server and rdesktop and Install Them.

Or

If You Are Fedora/OpenSuse Users OPen the Default Package Manager (eg. Fedora Users Can Use Yumex and Suse Users Can Use Yast) Search For VMware-server ad rdesktop and Install Them.

VMware will Ask You for Serial Number Paste the Serial Number which You Have Copied Before,Now Proceed and Finish Installation.

Now Open VMware and Follow The Steps Below :-

• Click Local Host->Now Click Connect.
• select ‘Create a new virtual machine’
• Select Typical and click Next.
• => Next => Next => Select Windows Xp (or whatever Windows versions you want to install )
• => Next => Enter a name and select a location for the Virtual Machine File (It contains the virtual harddisk, so it needs quite some space, Min.
• 3 GB, but I would recommend 8+ GB )
• => Next => Select Network type. Select NAT,Click Next,
• => Next => Choose the size for the Virtual Disk.
• => Next => Finish

It will Take Few Minutes to Create Virtual Machine ,When it is Created Follow the Steps Below.

Now we can start the newly made virtual machine and the install of Windows!

• Start the virtual machine
• Hopefully it detects your Windows install CD and will start the installation! If it won’t boot from the CD, stop the virtual machine and check/change the preferences for the virtual machine regarding the CD drive
• Now Install WIndows To it,There is No Need To explain How to Install Windows.

Now Windows Will Start Automatically after Installation.

1. Now Go to->Control Panel->Click the Switch to Classic View->Now Double Click On System Icon and Go to Remote Tab->Check The Box :-”Allow Users to Connect Remotely to This Computer”
2. Now Go to-> Start -> Run and typing regedit. Search for HKEY_CURRENT_USER -> Software -> Microsoft -> Windows -> CurrentVersion -> Policies -> Explorer. Once there, right-click on the right panel and select New -> DWORD Value. Name it NoDesktop, then click on it and change the data value to 1. Close the Registry editor and restart Windows.
3. Now Create a User Account.Go to Control Panel->Click user accounts icon ->Click On Create a New Account ->Give User name when Required->Create a Password and Close the User Account Window.
4. Go to Control Panel->Click on Network Connections->Single Click The Local Area Connection Icon and in the Left Side ,You Will See the Ip Address, Note it Down somewhere because you will need it Later.
5. Next, install SeamlessRDP from within your Windows virtual machine. Open Internet Explorer and Download Seamlessrdp.zip From Here. Create a directory under C:/ and Name it to seamlessrdp and Now Double Click The Downloaded Seamless Zip File .Copy the three files into the Newly Created directory seamlessrdp ( you’ll use seamlessrdpshell.exe later).
6. Now install the VMWare tools. This will speed up your Windows responsiveness

• Make sure your Windows Virtual Machine is Running and visable/selected. (Not in FullScreen)
• Go to the VM menu (on the top in the VM Server Console)
• Select Install VMWare Tools.
  This will start a installation wizard in your Windows Environment. Just install the stuff and you will have better mouse and system responsiveness.

CTRL + ALT will release the mousecursor from the virtual machine
CTRL + ALT in FullScreen mode will get you out of the FullScreen.

You can Suspend a running virtual machine. this way it will start very fast the next time you need it.
To have sound support, add a sound device in the virtual machine settings.

Now Just Log off Windows and Close the VMware Server window.

(Note on’t Shut Down Windows ,it will Remains Running in the Background ,after Closing the VMware Server Window) .

Finally :->

Create a Shortcut on your linux desktop :Right Click On Desktop->Create Launcher-> Name it whatever you like and in the Command Write the Following Text.

rdesktop -A -s ‘c:\seamless\seamlessrdpshell.exe c:\windows\explorer.exe’ windowipaddress -u windowusername -p windowspassword

Where windowipaddress is the Address Which You have Noted Earlier windowusername is the name of the user account ,which u have created earlier and windowspassword is the Password of the User Account ,like an example :

rdesktop -A -s ‘c:\seamlessrdp\seamlessrdpshell.exe c:\windows\explorer.exe’ 192.168.156.123 -u Puneet -p theking

That’s it

Now Double Click on The Shortcut .

Note :Make Sure Disable any Running Firewall in the Linux Machine.

Now Click on the Shortcut Icon on Linux Machine.

Voila ! After a few seconds, you should have the Windows XP menu bar at the bottom of the screen, and you should be able to launch any application you have installed. You’ve created the illusion that both operating systems are working on the same machine at the same time. Very cool.

This trick doesn’t work with just VMware virtual machines. It also works with Windows clients on your network and other virtual machine software. Simply install SeamlessRDP and configure Windows XP properly so that rdesktop can connect to it.

Click The Screen Shot to Enlarge.

Enjoy Linux and Windows Together on One Desktop.

Regards.

Esta es la nueva versión de OpenSuse que corrige los principales defectos o errores de las tres últimas veriones, convirtiéndose en una opción muy interesante para los usuarios de Linux. La distribución de la empresa alemana SUSE cambió ligeramente de rumbo tras su adquisición por parte de Novell, lo que supuso un impacto grando en sus primeras ediciones. De hecho, el cambio más importante, que afectaba al sistema de gestión de paquetes, tuvo efectos bastantes negativos en las prestaciones de una solución que siempre había disfrutado de muy buena reputación.

Es un programa a escala internacional para la comunidad, patrocinado por Novell promueve el uso de software libre en todas partes. El programa proporciona acceso libre y facil a openSUSE. Podrás formar parte de una comunidad de usuarios y desarrolladores que tienen el mismo objetivo: crear y distribuir la versión de Linux más utilizable del mundo. openSUSE proporciona, asimismo, la base para los productos galardonados SUSE Linux Enterprise.

Las tres últimas versiones habían sido algo solventes en muchos de sus aspectos, pero los conflictos con la actualización de paquetes hacía ralentizar todo de cara a los usuarios y medios de comunicación, algo que ha cambiado definitivamente con la versión 10.3, que soluciona este problema, además de diversas novedades.

La aparición de ZMD como gestor de actualizaciones solo dio problemas, y desde la versión 10.1 los desarrolladores de openSUSE estuvieron trabajando en el actual sistema, basado en libzypp, y que es tratado internamente con YaST o incluso a través del terminal mediante el comando zypper. La actualización y el gestionado de repositorios es ahora más rápido, aunque no puede competir con el sistema de los Debian y Ubuntu, con su apt-get, el mejor sistema de paquetes que he probado, con fácil instalación, actualización y upgrades. Esta diferencia de eficiencia con respecto a versiones más antiguas es un beneficio hacia el usuario final.

Precisamente, la gestión de repositorios es especialmente importante debido al hecho de que se han incluido los denominados Community Repositories, es decir, algunas fuentes de paquetes muy famosas Packman, por ejemplo, era uno de los clásicos, que disponen de aplicaciones y paquetes que no están incluidos de serie ni en los repositorios oficiales. Por ejemplo, todos los relacionados con el soporte de códecs multimedia. openSUSE 10.3 incluye por primera vez soporte de serie para el formato MP3, algo significativo que mejora un apartado normalmente olvidado«aposta» en estas soluciones.

Siendo la mejora más relevante, no es la única: los tiempos de arranque se han reducido notablemente gracias a mejoras en el núcleo y en el nuevo upstart, que ya es parte también de Ubuntu. Además, se ha incluido una versión previa de KDE 4.0 que estará a punto de salir cuando leáis estas líneas y las iteraciones estables actuales de los dos entornos de escritorio por excelencia (KDE 3.5.7 y GNOME 2.20). La activación de los efectos de escritorio mediante Compiz Fusion es ahora coser y cantar, y aplicaciones más serias, como la virtualización, son ahora más accesibles gracias a la inclusión de nuevas versiones de Xen y de VirtualBox. Sin duda, la openSUSE más completa en años y que incluimos en nuestro DVD 34.

1-Click-Install, magia openSUSE
El nuevo gestor de paquetes no sólo demuestra su potencia una vez lo usamos en el sistema operativo: sus prestaciones se extienden a la instalación de paquetes a través de Internet, gracias a la nueva tecnología denominada 1-Click-Install. Mediante esta característica, podremos realizar la instalación no sólo de paquetes individuales, sino de aplicaciones completas dependencias incluidas- a través de un nuevo tipo de fichero de metapaquetes que tiene la extensión YMP. Dicha extensión no es más que una definición especial de conjuntos de paquetes a través de XML que permite automatizar el proceso de descarga e instalación de uno o varios desde un hiperenlace. Este tipo de links está cada vez disponible en mayor número de webs dedicadas a la distribución de Novell, y de hecho disponen de un icono que muestra el texto Install via 1-Click. La remozada web de descargas de openSUSE (http://software.opensuse.org) es un ejemplo de la disponibilidad de estos paquetes. Nunca fue más fácil instalar los últimos controladores de NVIDIA o la versión completa de Compiz Fusion para KDE y GNOME.

Características:

Lo mejor de este S.O:
El programa 1-Click-Install, muy buen sistema de gestión de paquetes. Su soporte MP3. Buenas prestaciones. Es gratuito

Lo peor de este S.O:
Lentitud en la actualización de los repositorios.

Precio: Gratuito Fabricante: Novell Web: www.novell.com
Calidad/Precio: 10 Valoración Personal: 8.5

Bibliografía: www.novell.com, http://pc-actual.com.

About VideoLAN

VideoLAN is a software project, which produces free software for video, released under the GNU General Public License.

In order to install VLC on a SUSE Linux/openSUSE, you have several options (besides downloading and installing the RPMs manually).

Type: HTTP / Servername: download.videolan.org /
Directory: /pub/videolan/vlc/SuSE/<SUSE Version>

10.0
10.1
10.2
10.3

Let us Take 80 GB of HardDrive.

1)Boot From Windows cd ,MakeUpto Two Ntfs Partitions Say 20 Gb For C:/ and 20 Gb for D:/ and Rest Remains Free.

You can Make 1 Partition For Windows.

2)There is a Step Including in The Dvd Installation of openSUSE Which Will Show You The Other Operating Systems in The Installation itself .

3)Now Install openSUSE On The Free Partition .It Will Recoganize the Window Partition in Between Will Show the Partition Table Like Below (as per the Windows Installed):

Device              Label             MountPoint         Type             Format          Size

/dev/sda

/dev/sda1                                                             ntfs                                      20003

/dev/sda2                                                      Extended                                    56306

/dev/sda5                                                             ntfs                                      20003

Free                                                             FreeSpace                                  39252

Now Above 20003 First Partition is Your Windows Partition(ntfs) and Other 20003 Partition is Your D:/ Partition(ntfs) and Now Click On Free and Make The Partition Like Below :

Device                 Label                     Mount Point                     Type                      Format             Size

/dev/sda

/dev/sda1                                                                                         ntfs                                              20003

/dev/sda2                                                                                   Extended                                           56306

/dev/sda5                                                                                         ntfs                                              20003

/dev/sda6                                                /boot                                 ext3                         yes               1028

/dev/sda7                                                /swap                               ext3                         yes                 1028

/dev/sda8                                                /                                       ext3                         yes                 20000

/dev/sda9                                             /home                                 ext3                          yes                 17188

Freespace                                                                                                                                             8mb

Here at the Above Partition The Space I Have Allocated is :

/boot Partition is Of 1 Gb Nearly (You Can Give 512 Mb )

/swap Partition is Of 1 Gb Nearly(You Can Give 512 Mb)

/ is the Root Partition Holding All The Installed Softwares ,Files etc (You Can Give this space as Per Your Requirement Minimum of 9 Gb if You are Installing Both KDE And Gnome Enviroments)

/home is The Home Partition ,it is Holding Your Documents,Music Files etc (IT Should Be Large For Storing Documents And Music etc)

If Windows Operating is Not Showing Up at the Booting Screen.

Just Follow The Steps Below

Boot Into openSUSE :-

Now Care fully Follow steps below:-

Right Click on Desktop ->Open Terminal

vi /boot/grub/menu.lst

or

gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst

At the end write this (if the lines below already exists skip the steps):-

title Windows XP
root (hd0,1)
chainloader +1

Now Save the file and Exit.

hd0 Refers To Your First Hard Drive and 1 Refers To Your Partition No. Where The Windows Installed(like sda1).

(hd0,1) can be Different as Per the Windows Installed.

Restart Your System Now You have the Options to switch to Windows and openSuse.

Happy Dual Booting.

Adobe Reader allows more securely view, print, search, sign, verify, and collaborate on PDF documents, online as well as offline, from your home or office. Reader has a completely redesigned interface, new tools, and new options for viewing information more efficiently. Access to an online, real-time meeting in seconds.

Reader is integrated with Adobe Connect software, which enables users to instantly communicate and accelerate approvals with virtually anyone, anywhere, at any time. Add more security to your documents, forms, and drawings with digital signatures. Leverage Adobe LiveCycle Policy Server and the new Adobe Online Services Document Center to enforce access rights at the document level. Version 8.1.1 includes unspecified updates.

Installation Steps :-

Go to ->Computer->Control Center->Yast

Now Click on Software->Software Management

Search For adobe

And You Will Find Many of The Package List Here ,Now Select

acroread(7.0.9) or You have other Versions ,just Select the Package named acroread.

Click on Install.

Now Click Accept.

It will Take Some Time for it’s Installation.

Now You r Done .

Now goto->Computer->More Applications->Office->Adobe Acrobat.

Enjoy Reading Pdf Files.

MPlayer: A movie and animation player that supports a wide range or codecs and file formats, including MPEG 1/2/4, DivX 3/4/5, Windows Media 7/8/9, RealAudio/Video up to 9, Quicktime 5/6, and Vivo 1/2. It has many MMX/SSE (2)/3DNow(Ex) optimized native audio and video codecs, but allows using XAnim’s and RealPlayer’s binary codec plugins, and Win32 codec DLLs. It has basic VCD/DVD playback functionality, including DVD subtitles, but supports many text-based subtitle formats too. For video output, nealy every exising interface is supported. It’s also able to convert raw/divx/ mpeg4 AVI (pcm/mp3 audio), and even video grabbing from V4L devices. From MPlayer.

Go to->Control Center->Yast

Click On Software->Community Repository

Check On Packman Repository .

YAST will then automatically setup the repositories for you. During the setup process, you will be asked if you want YAST to import the gpg keys for the repositories you chose and you need to select “yes”.

Wait…..

Now,

Go to Yast->Click on Software->Software Manager.For Some Minutes.

Search For mplayer.

Now there are Lots of Softwares are Listed .

Select What r Required.

MPlayer(1.orc2)

mplayer-plug-in(3.50)

libvisual-plugins(0.4.0)

You Can Also Select Optional Multimedia Packages Like : smplayer(0.5.21) and smplayer-debuginfo(0.5.21) or gnome-mplayer(0.5.4) and gnome-mplayer-debuginfo(0.5.4)

Now After Selecting Packages Click On Accept.

An Installation Will automatically Start Preforming Wait For Some Time.

Now You r Done.

Open & Play :-

Go to ->Computer->More Applications->Click on Multimedia->Mplayer.

Enjoy Mplayer.

M Using Nvidia Graphics Card ,I Have Not Tried Yet But,

You Can Find a Nice Tutorial For that is Given Here : -

http://linux.wordpress.com/

Compiz Fusion is the result of a merge between the well-known Beryl composite window manager and Compiz Extras, a community set of improvements to the Compiz composite window manager. Thus if you still don’t get it, when you install Compiz Fusion, you also need to have Compiz packages as well as Xgl (in this for ATI cards) installed, but not Beryl.

So you really want to have all those 3D goodies running on your openSUSE 10.3 box using the latest Compiz Fusion … oki doki. The following how-to differs a little bit from the official how-to @opensuse.org site.

So you really want to have all those 3D goodies running on your openSUSE 10.3 box using the latest Compiz Fusion … . The following how-to differs a little bit from the official how-to @opensuse.org site.

In my case I am running openSUSE 10.3 x64 with Gnome and an Nvidia 6200 video card on 17″ 1080×728 resolution. (guess for Kde it should also work).

1)Configure Nvidia Graphics and 3d Acceration from http://en.opensuse.org/Nvidia

Now search for ‘nvidia’ and select-

• nvidia-gfxG01-kmp-default
• x11-video-nvidiaG01

After Downloading and Installing Nvidia Packages.

We then tell the kernel to use this driver, to do this start the konsole command line, login as root and type ‘modprobe nvidia’.

Open->Terminal

Type

puneet@localhost : su -

password :

root@localhost : modprobe nvidia.

Restart the computer to use the new driver.

To check that we are using the new driver use:

YAST -> Hardware->Graphics card & monitor

• For KDE:
• For Gnome:

If you would like to setup autostart of compiz install Compiz Manager: Click here to install compiz-manager

Now head to Yast and launch Software management and install the following packages as well, unless they are already installed:

• compiz-emerald
• compiz-emerald-themes
• compiz-fusion-kde (or compiz-fusion-gnome)
• fusion-icon
  
• all the related dependencies

Now After Downloading the above Packages follow the steps Below

OPen Terminal :-

puneet@localhost : su -

password :

root@localhost :gnome-xgl-switch –enable-xgl

If The Command Given Above sends you the Following Error :

bash: gnome-xgl-switch: command not found

Then Configure Xgl :

Install XGL and Compiz

The packages you need are available on the openSUSE DVD. Just use Yast ,search for xgl compiz gconf and install it. How easy can it be?

Hack the configuration files

Unfortunately we have to hack the configuration files a little bit. No worry, it is easier like it seems. Let’s start with the file displaymanager. Get root permissions and change the following lines using your favorite editor like explained below:

su
cd /etc/sysconfig
vi displaymanager

Search

DISPLAYMANAGER=
DISPLAYMANAGER_XSERVER=

and replace on

DISPLAYMANAGER="xgl"
DISPLAYMANAGER_XSERVER="xgl"

Also Search

DISPLAYMANAGER_XGL_OPTS=

and replace on

DISPLAYMANAGER_XGL_OPTS="-accel glx:pbuffer -accel xv:fbo"

Editing xorg.conf

Next we have to edit the X-Org configuration file like this:

cd cd /etc/X11/ vi xorg.conf

Add the following line in the Section “Device”

Option “NoFlip” “True”

Section "Device"
  BoardName    "GeForce 7800 GT"
  BusID        "4:0:0"      (try lspci | grep VGA. Last set of  numbers is your BusID)
  Driver       "nvidia"
  Identifier   "Device[0]"
  VendorName   "NVidia"
  Option       "NoFlip" "True"
EndSection

and add the next line to the Section “Extensions”

Option “Composite” “off”

Section "Extensions"
   Option "Composite" "off"
EndSection

Save the File and Exit ,Now Restart Your Computer and You r Done .

Note :- No Need To Worry About the Following Error From running glxgears on Terminal.

XIO: fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server “:0.0″
after 4182 requests (4080 known processed) with 0 events remaining.

Enjoy Compiz Fusion.

I Personally found OpenSUSE 10.3 Installation as Much Reliable as Fedora 8.

Suse Installation is Quite Simple ,Just Boot From Cd/Dvd ,It will do it’s Work as Follows :

Note : – If You Use Dvd Instead Choose Your Flavour(Kde,Gnome or Others ).

You Can Manually Choose Both of The Enviroments if You Have atleast 7 Gb Of Disk Space and The Other Applications To.

Installation Steps Include :-

• Step 1: Choose Language (Choose as u Prefer)
• Step 2: License Agreement (Click on Accept)
  
• Step 3: System Analysis and Installation Mode(Checking it’s Requirements)
• Add Online openSUSE Repositories (Checking for Online Softwares Available)
• Step 4: Select Time Zones (Selecting Country and Time Zone)
  
• Desktop Selection (Gnome or Kde)
  
• Step 5: Final Summary
• Step 6: Installation (It will Start Installing Softwares)
• Step 7: System Administrator Password (Enter Password which u Want)
  
• Step 8: Host Name Selection
• Step 9: Network Configuration
  
• Step 10: Setup Online Updates (Checking for Online Updates if u have internet Connection)
• Run Online Update
• Step 11: User Setup (Enter Desired User Name and Password)
• Writing System Configuration
• Step 12: Release Notes
• Hardware Setup (Mouse,Keyboard,Graphics,Sound,Lan,Printer,WebCam,etc)
  
  Congratulations!

I Normally Prefered Pictures Wise Installation Guide:Click Here

Have Fun

In the short time I’ve tried Linux I’ve already switched Distros without have really tried any. I’ve started with Ubuntu 6.06, moved to OpenSUSE 10.2 followed by 10.3 and now to LinuxMint Daryna. One thing I liked about all was the look.. though some looked better than others, OpenSUSE did look the best in terms of Icons and that little start bar with the wanimated eye. Compiz was a major deciding factor in moving to OpenSUSE and Multimedia is the reason for moving to LinuxMint (both OpenSUSE 10.3 and LinuxMint have Compiz built in). 

Moving to Linux is something which I cannot consider aat the moment without having a Dualboot for Windows mainly because some devices are still not supported by Linux and others it took me a while to get em working. My wifi experience on LinuxMint was one of those things. I initially had OpenSUSE10.3 but immediatly switched to LinuxMint when I realised that the wifi did not work out-of-the-box in OpenSUSE, however neither did it work in Mint. Which resulted in me tryin another OS install. Note: I don’t know jack bout using the console – if there is something not working, which was working before, I generally reinstall the OS and pray that it works on the next attempt.

So here I was sitting on my brand new Mint only to realise that Wifi was not working, connecting to the net was possible though with the LAN cable (thank god for small favours). So I tried installing drivers from the repository only to realise that it wasn’t working either.

After hunting on the net n Linux forums I came to know bout ndiswrapper (this tool allows you to use your windows driver to get the wifi working under Linux), being the non-console guy I am I immediatly tried using the GUI version of the same, only to find that it was not working properly – answer found on a forum – ndiswrapper GUI is relatively new so it may not work Next I tried ndiswrapper from the console (after copying my wlan driver from their windows location into linux) and hurray .. it worked. So now I had Wifi but still no connection to the repositories.. answer for that was to enter openDNS to the DNS server list… the answer was derived by googling  

After getting these two critical components life is looking a whole lot better on the Linux front. Download whatever you want from synaptic. And windows takes a major trashing in the “Looks” department.. doesn’t matter if its Vista or XP (i mean..who would compare with XP anyway?) . Compiz simply rocks!! There are so many animations available.. I am yet to try out all of em.. but its fun nevertheless.

One area where Windows still rules is Device support, all manufacturers are nice enough to provide drivers for the hardware, not so many are as nice for Linux. I now have to toss my Webcam if I want to use it in Linux – so first check for Linux support before buying the hardware.

 Multimedia support is gud in Mint, it plays most formats out-of-the-box. Of course its still better to download VLC because Mplayer and Totem seem to freeze every now and then (similar to the buffering in Online movies).

Final words, Linux has come a long way but don’t trash your Windows just yet coz u never know wat problems you may encounter (in which case you may need to switch to Win.. and search the forums for answers to your Questions). In the Looks department – which is important to me.. Linux wins hands down.

P.S. does anyone know how to unsplit splitted RAR files? downloaded a movie which has been split into multiple RAR parts which I somehow need to integrate before extracting it. Also if anyone knows how to make a Skype webcam from USRobotics work in Linux please let me know, its model number is USR9640, when plugged into Linux it shows up as 0c45:6242 Microdia which has been classifed as “Unsupported by Linux”. Just some of the unending Linux questions on my road to enlightenment

As an Sapphire X1950 pro 512 AGP video card owner, I always try to install the latest drivers from ATI to have an up to date system to work and play with. The past 4 months have been quite frustrating for me because since the 7.7 version, Catalyst drivers on Windows, even if they install fine, does not seems to work at all and fail every DirectX tests.

This seems to be a common issue for the NForce2 chipset owner. I have an ASUS A7N8X-E Deluxe.

Here is my setup

• ASUS A7n8X-E Deluxe, latest BIOS 1013
• 2 Gb Ram (Dual Channel)
• Athlon XP 3000+ (core Barton)
• Sapphire X1950 Pro 512 AGP
• NVidia Nforce drivers version 5.11
• AGP Texture Size : 128
• Other BIOS settings are ‘regular’, no overclocking, no custom timings.

Right now, only the 7.7 drivers have been working fine with my system.

I have decided to compile here some searches I have made to solve this issue and I hope they will work also for me.

• They are some issues with Catalyst 7.9 and maybe 7.10 so, try those tricks with the latest versions 7.12
• If you have an NVIDIA NForce 2 chipset and have the latest 5.11 chipset drivers installed, try uninstall them and install the previous one (the 5.10 I guess) instead. Some user recommand to not install IDE and/or GART drivers. Then install the 7.12 and see if DirectX diags work this time
• Some users have reported that replacing some files may also help:
  - Install the 7.7 working drivers
  - Locate and copy somewhere the file ati3duag.dll (and also the ati3d1ag.dll) somewhere on your disk
  - Remove the 7.7 drivers
  - Install the 7.12 drivers
  - Go in Safe Mode, then overwrite the existing file with the one that you have just get from previous 7.7 drivers installation
  - Restart and see if DXDiag works this time
• Some users have reported that settings the AGP Texture Size from 128 to 256 seems to have resolved the issue.

Also, you can test alertnate ATI drivers like the one provided by Omega, see here for download.

I have not tested myself those tricks but I will and I will post the result here.

Ref : link, link2, link3

And for Linux now?

Well I have tested the 7.12 on my OpenSuse 10.3 installation and do a very basic installation. I even deleted the existing xorg.conf in case of, ran a sax2 -a to have a blank, working xorg.conf file, runs then sax2 -r -m 0=fglrx and … they do not work right now: sax2 display a black screen after starting a X server and I need to reboot to have access to my system.

Ok, I will test again and spend more time on the 7.12 driver installation on Linux and I soon as I have a working solution, I will post it here.

Stay tuned.

Update (24.12.2007)

Well, the trick to install previous nforce chipset drivers was not working (at last) for me… I will test the AGP Texture Size and the file replacement trick soon and let you know about the result.

Mein kleiner Linux Merkzettel

Hier schreibe ich superkurze oder laengere Beitraege. Sie dienen in der Hauptsache dazu, dass ich bestimmte Linux Befehle leicht wiederfinde. Da ich mich nicht als Linux Experte bezeichnen wuerde, brauche ich ab und zu Hilfestellung selbst bei den einfachsten Befehlen.

Heute: Ausgabe von Rauschen um die Lautsprechen zu testen

linux-ff6y:~ # cat /dev/urandom > /dev/dsp

Abbruch z.B. mit -c

Heute: Staer des Alsamixers unter der Konsole:

linux-ff6y:~ # alsamixer

Heute: Soundkonfigurationsdatei bearbeiten (mit dem Editor joe)

linux-ff6y:~ # joe /etc/modprobe.d/sound

Inhalt meiner Konfigurationsdatei (der Sound ist viel zu leise und nur auf dem Kopfhoererausgang zu hoeren):

options snd-hda-intel enable=1 index=0 model=6stack-digout

# dtXw.mX9s0UciqM6:VIA High Definition Audio Controller
alias snd-card-0 snd-hda-intel

Heute: Alsa konfigurieren:

linux-ff6y:~ # alsaconf

Heute: Ausgabe einiger Daten ueber die Soundkonfiguration:

linux-ff6y:~ # artsd -l 0

Erzeugt z.B. folgende Ausgabe:

artsd version is 1.5.7
gsl: using Unix98 pthreads directly for mutexes and conditions
[artsd: 11348] SoundServerStartup –> got lock
autodetecting driver:
– oss: 10
– alsa: 15
– null: -1
– jack: -1
– toss: 4
… which means we’ll default to alsa
ALSA driver: default
buffering: 7 fragments with 940 bytes (audio latency is 37.3 ms)
Closing ALSA-driver
virtualize StereoVolumeControl
ALSA driver: default
buffering: 7 fragments with 940 bytes (audio latency is 37.3 ms)
audio format is 44100 Hz, 16 bits, 2 channels
addDirectory(/opt/kde3/lib/mcop,)
addDirectory(/opt/kde3/lib/mcop/Arts,Arts)
addDirectory(/root/.mcop/trader-cache,)
[artsd: 11348] SoundServerStartup <– released lock

Synth_PLAY: closing audio fd
Closing ALSA-driver

Heute: Weitere Sounddaten ausgeben

/usr/sbin/hwinfo –sound

Ergibt folgende Ausgabe:

36: PCI 401.0: 0403 Audio device
[Created at pci.301]
UDI: /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_1106_3288
Unique ID: dtXw.mX9s0UciqM6
Parent ID: HSco.nV1YXpODSg1
SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:13.0/0000:04:01.0
SysFS BusID: 0000:04:01.0
Hardware Class: sound
Model: “Fujitsu Siemens VIA High Definition Audio Controller”
Vendor: pci 0×1106 “VIA Technologies, Inc.”
Device: pci 0×3288 “VIA High Definition Audio Controller”
SubVendor: pci 0×1734 “Fujitsu Siemens Computer GmbH”
SubDevice: pci 0×10d9
Revision: 0×10
Driver: “HDA Intel”
Driver Modules: “snd_hda_intel”
Memory Range: 0xd9000000-0xd9003fff (rw,non-prefetchable)
IRQ: 22 (60860 events)
Module Alias: “pci:v00001106d00003288sv00001734sd000010D9bc04sc03i00″
Driver Info #0:
Driver Status: snd_hda_intel is active
Driver Activation Cmd: “modprobe snd_hda_intel”
Config Status: cfg=no, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown
Attached to: #29 (PCI bridge)

Das wars auch schon!

Mein kleiner Linux Merkzettel

Hier schreibe ich superkurze oder laengere Beitraege. Sie dienen in der Hauptsache dazu, dass ich bestimmte Linux Befehle leicht wiederfinde. Da ich mich nicht als Linux Experte bezeichnen wuerde, brauche ich ab und zu Hilfestellung selbst bei den einfachsten Befehlen.

Heute: Manuelles Einschalten von tor (Voraussetzung: tor ist installiert)

linux-ff6y:~ # /etc/init.d/tor start

Ausschalten mit:

linux-ff6y:~ # /etc/init.d/tor stop

Das wars auch schon!

Mein kleiner Linux Merkzettel

Hier schreibe ich superkurze oder laengere Beitraege. Sie dienen in der Hauptsache dazu, dass ich bestimmte Linux Befehle leicht wiederfinde. Da ich mich nicht als Linux Experte bezeichnen wuerde, brauche ich ab und zu Hilfestellung selbst bei den einfachsten Befehlen.

Heute: Manuelles Einschalten von privoxy (Voraussetzung: privoxy und tor sind installiert)

linux-ff6y:~ # /etc/init.d/privoxy start

Ausschalten mit:

linux-ff6y:~ # /etc/init.d/privoxy stop

Das wars auch schon!

I haven’t posted yet the procedure to install the latest fglrx drivers on OpenSuse 10.3 simply because I haven’t tested yet.

For those you are looking for some informations about the installation process, you can check this web site.

On my side, I will test them as soon as I can and post here the results.

Link