Comments on: A horrific start with openSUSE 11.1 http://alternativenayk.wordpress.com/2008/12/21/a-horrific-start-with-opensuse-111/ Unless we explore, experiment and discover, we will only be following the crowd. Thu, 17 Dec 2009 23:11:10 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Moiz http://alternativenayk.wordpress.com/2008/12/21/a-horrific-start-with-opensuse-111/#comment-7721 Moiz Mon, 27 Jul 2009 03:31:46 +0000 http://alternativenayk.wordpress.com/?p=217#comment-7721 Hi, I installed openSuse 11.1 last night on my Acer5710z and got a bit of a mouse problem. Can any one help please? I used the DVD iso image, I did not understand how to use LiveCD iso. Installation went quite smoothly without any problems. After seeing Gnome, I decided to use KDE. Everything worked perfectly fine untill I rebooted the machine ejecting DVD, so that it can boot from hard disk. Since reboot, my mouse keeps on moving here and there unexpectedly and keeps on poping menus. I tried to struggle, but ended up clicking various options on those poped up menus. Can someone help please? I need openSuse11.1 more than anything else. Please help. Hi,

I installed openSuse 11.1 last night on my Acer5710z and got a bit of a mouse problem. Can any one help please?

I used the DVD iso image, I did not understand how to use LiveCD iso. Installation went quite smoothly without any problems. After seeing Gnome, I decided to use KDE. Everything worked perfectly fine untill I rebooted the machine ejecting DVD, so that it can boot from hard disk.

Since reboot, my mouse keeps on moving here and there unexpectedly and keeps on poping menus. I tried to struggle, but ended up clicking various options on those poped up menus.

Can someone help please? I need openSuse11.1 more than anything else. Please help.

]]> By: Cahya http://alternativenayk.wordpress.com/2008/12/21/a-horrific-start-with-opensuse-111/#comment-7702 Cahya Tue, 23 Jun 2009 02:49:34 +0000 http://alternativenayk.wordpress.com/?p=217#comment-7702 I'm using Windows Vista and OpenSUSE 11.1, I never get a problem if want to use the Windows to be the selected OS to boot with GRUB. It was easily manage from YaST --> Boot Loader Configuration, as long we don't check "make this partition as active partition" when chose a Windows partition to boot with GRUB. Well, I'm a newbie, sure lack of experience in this matter. I’m using Windows Vista and OpenSUSE 11.1, I never get a problem if want to use the Windows to be the selected OS to boot with GRUB. It was easily manage from YaST –> Boot Loader Configuration, as long we don’t check “make this partition as active partition” when chose a Windows partition to boot with GRUB.

Well, I’m a newbie, sure lack of experience in this matter.

]]> By: blackpoopie http://alternativenayk.wordpress.com/2008/12/21/a-horrific-start-with-opensuse-111/#comment-7697 blackpoopie Fri, 19 Jun 2009 01:26:55 +0000 http://alternativenayk.wordpress.com/?p=217#comment-7697 Hey there... I had OPENSUSE 10.3 working not badly... Then I thought I just had to upgrade to 11.1 Not good.. I am having problems... As others have said, I could not get any music to play... but finally I got it working... not sure how... Right now I cannot get any dvds or videos to play... I got one playing in MPlayer but only could hear the sound... no video... Seems like a huge pain... I do not want to depend on Windows but stuff on there seems to work... HELLO ???? Cannot get a movie to play on Caffeine... Hey, what is it on there for ... to look pretty... it does nothing.... VLC won't play a movie either ... neither will KMPlayer... Who has truck loads of time to waste on this..?? I do not know if it is worth it..... Time is money..... Anyway... I will play around with it when I have a chance... but not real happy..... DJ.......... Hey there…
I had OPENSUSE 10.3 working not badly… Then I thought I just had to upgrade to 11.1 Not good.. I am having problems…
As others have said, I could not get any music to play… but finally I got it working… not sure how…
Right now I cannot get any dvds or videos to play… I got one playing in MPlayer but only could hear the sound… no video…
Seems like a huge pain… I do not want to depend on Windows but stuff on there seems to work… HELLO ????
Cannot get a movie to play on Caffeine… Hey, what is it on there for … to look pretty… it does nothing….
VLC won’t play a movie either … neither will KMPlayer…
Who has truck loads of time to waste on this..?? I do not know
if it is worth it…..
Time is money….. Anyway… I will play around with it when I
have a chance… but not real happy….. DJ……….

]]> By: Dale http://alternativenayk.wordpress.com/2008/12/21/a-horrific-start-with-opensuse-111/#comment-7647 Dale Sun, 03 May 2009 05:17:16 +0000 http://alternativenayk.wordpress.com/?p=217#comment-7647 I had to fight to install it and had issues, then I did install it and went to update and it was the server security didn't match or something suggesting a mistake or a hack then wouldn't let me do anything with it, and with all the things im seeing of other people complaining about with 11.1 I'm going to personally call Opensuse beta-extended...disgruntled I downloaded Fedora 10, haven't tired it yet. I cant do KDE anything...I just cant use it (years of win 98se rotting my brain perhaps) however I am a big fan of XFCE but I mainly use GNOME. I have mostly used Ubuntu but need something with more of a back bone and deeper security. I had to fight to install it and had issues, then I did install it and went to update and it was the server security didn’t match or something suggesting a mistake or a hack then wouldn’t let me do anything with it, and with all the things im seeing of other people complaining about with 11.1 I’m going to personally call Opensuse beta-extended…disgruntled I downloaded Fedora 10, haven’t tired it yet.

I cant do KDE anything…I just cant use it (years of win 98se rotting my brain perhaps) however I am a big fan of XFCE but I mainly use GNOME. I have mostly used Ubuntu but need something with more of a back bone and deeper security.

]]> By: blackpoopie http://alternativenayk.wordpress.com/2008/12/21/a-horrific-start-with-opensuse-111/#comment-7577 blackpoopie Mon, 02 Mar 2009 01:22:18 +0000 http://alternativenayk.wordpress.com/?p=217#comment-7577 Hola!! Hey, I just installed Open SOOOZIE 11.1 and it took a wee bit of fiddling but the install finally went really easily. The only problem was when the desktop finally came up the mouse cursor would not move. I tried hooking up an older mouse. But then I booted the system in the safe mode and then the mouse was working. Have to figure that out later. I had Open Soozie 10.3 before and I liked it although the software installing is much easier with the newer version. I had to type my problems into GOOGLE and then I got some web sites that offered good advice. I did like that videos would play in Browsers this time out of the box. So I did not have to try and figure out how to install the Flash Player plug ins.... I am using the K desktop and not the GNOME one... AND, of course CAFFEINE would not play a DVD at first so I had to go to one of those web pages and they had the way to install the code ecs to Caffeine and the audio code ecs so MP3s would play on AMORAK. So installing that stuff took a while and I am not sure what I was doing but it seemed to fix some of the problems. Like no DVD play on Caffeine. So now I can play DVDs on CAFFEINE and it works properly. I even had a music CD working in AMORAK but then I played with the audio settings at the bottom of the screen and now the music CD plays for a second and cuts out. BUT I tried to play an AVI vid file with CAFFEINE and it was a no go so more work is needed to get that working... I may try and install KMPlayer... I installed VLC player but it is not working for me yet... more tweaking on that baby.. So that is pretty much my experience with SOOZIE 11.1. I also have DEBIAN on an older PC and it is more difficult to navigate. Need to use the CLI which seems quite a huge pain so far. I cannot even get FLASH PLAYER installed so video works in the two browsers.. a hassle. But I have fooled with quite a few of the distros so far and I chose OPEN SOOZIE because it took care of the hard drive partitioning and all of that which I had no clue what to do. They say pick a mounting point... duh, and I have no clue what that means or what possible choices I could make... I have a book on LINUX and I plan to learn all about how they partition the hard drives and the letters they use and what they all mean... but that basically is a lot of time that I will have to invest which I would rather not do... could use it elsewhere... time is precious... I plan to stay with SOOZIE and I hope I can make it my basic system and only use WINDOWS for the odd, unusual job.. like using TC2007 to play the Stock Market. Not sure if they have a version for LINUX.... OK, nice to read all the comments... be blessed y'all... see you later.... Blackpoopie out........... Hola!! Hey, I just installed Open SOOOZIE 11.1 and it took a wee bit of fiddling but the install finally went really easily. The only problem was when the desktop finally came up the mouse cursor would not move. I tried hooking up an older mouse. But then I booted the system in the safe mode and then the mouse was working. Have to figure that out later. I had Open Soozie 10.3 before and I liked it although the software installing is much easier with the newer version. I had to type my problems into GOOGLE and then I got some web sites that offered good advice. I did like that videos would play in Browsers this time out of the box. So I did not have to try and figure out how to install the Flash Player plug ins….
I am using the K desktop and not the GNOME one…
AND, of course CAFFEINE would not play a DVD at first so I had to go to one of those web pages and they had the way to install the code ecs to Caffeine and the audio code ecs so MP3s would play on AMORAK.
So installing that stuff took a while and I am not sure what I was doing but it seemed to fix some of the problems. Like no DVD play on Caffeine. So now I can play DVDs on CAFFEINE and it works properly. I even had a music CD working in AMORAK but then I played with the audio settings at the bottom of the screen and now the music CD plays for a second and cuts out.
BUT I tried to play an AVI vid file with CAFFEINE and it was a no go so more work is needed to get that working… I may try and install KMPlayer… I installed VLC player but it is not working for me yet… more tweaking on that baby..
So that is pretty much my experience with SOOZIE 11.1. I also have DEBIAN on an older PC and it is more difficult to navigate. Need to use the CLI which seems quite a huge pain so far.
I cannot even get FLASH PLAYER installed so video works in the two browsers.. a hassle.
But I have fooled with quite a few of the distros so far and I chose OPEN SOOZIE because it took care of the hard drive partitioning and all of that which I had no clue what to do. They say pick a mounting point… duh, and I have no clue what that means or what possible choices I could make…
I have a book on LINUX and I plan to learn all about how they partition the hard drives and the letters they use and what they all mean… but that basically is a lot of time that I will have to invest which I would rather not do… could use it elsewhere… time is precious…
I plan to stay with SOOZIE and I hope I can make it my basic system and only use WINDOWS for the odd, unusual job.. like using TC2007 to play the Stock Market. Not sure if they have a version for LINUX….
OK, nice to read all the comments… be blessed y’all… see you later…. Blackpoopie out………..

]]> By: Richard http://alternativenayk.wordpress.com/2008/12/21/a-horrific-start-with-opensuse-111/#comment-7574 Richard Sun, 01 Mar 2009 21:51:47 +0000 http://alternativenayk.wordpress.com/?p=217#comment-7574 Was running Open SUSE 10.2 with no major problems, but decided to upgrade to 11.1. Installation manager reported partition error problems and was not able to upgrade, so I decided to do a complete new installation. Seemed to go okay, but KDE crashed (Signal 11) while trying to change wallpaper. Desktop was then corrupted. Tried to repair the installation (several times) but SUSE was apparently not able to repair the "boot configuration" information. No longer able to boot SUSE from the hard drive, I decided to completely reinstall SUSE 11.1 from the DVD. This time, I selected the Gnome desktop, which I really don't like. I dug out my 10.2 DVD and will now go back to that distro. I think that SUSE 11.1 is a disaster. Was running Open SUSE 10.2 with no major problems, but decided to upgrade to 11.1. Installation manager reported partition error problems and was not able to upgrade, so I decided to do a complete new installation. Seemed to go okay, but KDE crashed (Signal 11) while trying to change wallpaper. Desktop was then corrupted.

Tried to repair the installation (several times) but SUSE was apparently not able to repair the “boot configuration” information. No longer able to boot SUSE from the hard drive, I decided to completely reinstall SUSE 11.1 from the DVD. This time, I selected the Gnome desktop, which I really don’t like. I dug out my 10.2 DVD and will now go back to that distro. I think that SUSE 11.1 is a disaster.

]]> By: JayLinux http://alternativenayk.wordpress.com/2008/12/21/a-horrific-start-with-opensuse-111/#comment-7561 JayLinux Sun, 08 Feb 2009 08:33:41 +0000 http://alternativenayk.wordpress.com/?p=217#comment-7561 I restarted again, and again, no operating system. I was not concerned, thinking that perhaps the GRUB got messed up, so I tried to repair install using my openSUSE dvd. But when I tried fixing the GRUB, the entire C drive partition was unrecognisable. I wasn’t able to use or mount it. Hmmm. Try out 'SuperGrubDisk' to repair the GRUB bootloader. Can also repair /fix the Wndows bootloader/MBR. http://beginlinux.com/server_training/server-managment-topics/1069-supergrub http://www.supergrubdisk.org/ I restarted again, and again, no operating system.

I was not concerned, thinking that perhaps the GRUB got messed up, so I tried to repair install using my openSUSE dvd. But when I tried fixing the GRUB, the entire C drive partition was unrecognisable. I wasn’t able to use or mount it. Hmmm.

Try out ‘SuperGrubDisk’ to repair the GRUB bootloader. Can also repair /fix the Wndows bootloader/MBR.

http://beginlinux.com/server_training/server-managment-topics/1069-supergrub
http://www.supergrubdisk.org/

]]> By: Anonymous http://alternativenayk.wordpress.com/2008/12/21/a-horrific-start-with-opensuse-111/#comment-7548 Anonymous Fri, 30 Jan 2009 00:54:19 +0000 http://alternativenayk.wordpress.com/?p=217#comment-7548 Plus.. lets see... yast is crap.. if you ABORT the installation, and then ABORT again, why do you have to ABORT for every single package??? it takes exactly as long to abort the installation as to do it. that is not what ABORT means. Trying to mount an ntfs partition, if I use /dev/sda? not /dev/some stuff about disk ids/? then mount just hangs, the process restarts if I kill it, the "start bar" breaks and the machine will not go down because the file system is busy.. Thats the first time EVER i have had to hard shut down my linux box in 10 years. probly a problem with ntfs-3g.. but.. i mean the START bar crashing??? thats like having to restart explorer... that is THE WORST THING I HAVE EVER SEEN IN LINUX umm. still want to watch my startrek and go to sleep Plus.. lets see… yast is crap.. if you ABORT the installation, and then ABORT again, why do you have to ABORT for every single package??? it takes exactly as long to abort the installation as to do it. that is not what ABORT means.

Trying to mount an ntfs partition, if I use /dev/sda? not /dev/some stuff about disk ids/? then mount just hangs, the process restarts if I kill it, the “start bar” breaks and the machine will not go down because the file system is busy.. Thats the first time EVER i have had to hard shut down my linux box in 10 years. probly a problem with ntfs-3g.. but.. i mean the START bar crashing??? thats like having to restart explorer… that is THE WORST THING I HAVE EVER SEEN IN LINUX

umm. still want to watch my startrek and go to sleep

]]> By: Anonymous http://alternativenayk.wordpress.com/2008/12/21/a-horrific-start-with-opensuse-111/#comment-7547 Anonymous Fri, 30 Jan 2009 00:50:41 +0000 http://alternativenayk.wordpress.com/?p=217#comment-7547 hmkm. me 2 might as well use the agnula from 2007, works perfectly and comes with everything you actually use, bored of fiddleing with things when they worked years ago... just want to go to sleep!!! Downloaded all the packman stuff... no image, questions about it all over the place, no answers.yada... hmkm. me 2 might as well use the agnula from 2007, works perfectly and comes with everything you actually use, bored of fiddleing with things when they worked years ago… just want to go to sleep!!!

Downloaded all the packman stuff… no image, questions about it all over the place, no answers.yada…

]]> By: brigs http://alternativenayk.wordpress.com/2008/12/21/a-horrific-start-with-opensuse-111/#comment-7543 brigs Mon, 26 Jan 2009 15:49:57 +0000 http://alternativenayk.wordpress.com/?p=217#comment-7543 for first installation check your grub configuration if your windows being first installed on your hdd. Uncheck activate partition at grub option for windows section. Use Gparted or similar partition manager to move for a while active boot partition before installing suse 11.1. I always using root partition for boot flag so i returned my active boot to windows partition and used grub4dos to recall my suse. I never had bad experience for my suse. Suse forum mostly active, please used them for search information. I recommeded to check update repo everyday cause a lot of bug can be fixed from there. for first installation check your grub configuration if your windows being first installed on your hdd. Uncheck activate partition at grub option for windows section. Use Gparted or similar partition manager to move for a while active boot partition before installing suse 11.1. I always using root partition for boot flag so i returned my active boot to windows partition and used grub4dos to recall my suse. I never had bad experience for my suse. Suse forum mostly active, please used them for search information. I recommeded to check update repo everyday cause a lot of bug can be fixed from there.

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