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Seems to me it lies at your side

Seems to me it lies at your side

I like google groups better than the google linux search, but I don't think either are the best sites. IMHO any site that purports to have all answers to all linux questions isn't going to do very well with any semi-complex question. They just can't have the know-how.

IRC channels are good, but it is kind of like IM - if the devs aren't on you're out of luck.

I think it really depends on the distro. For Ubuntu, there is Ubuntu forums for SuSE there are SuSE forums. The same goes for Gentoo, Mepis, Debian, Redhat, Fedora or any other distro out there. The larger projects also have their own forums.

Getting as specific a location as you can will help (e.g. the google group on Debian is better than the one on Linux users for Debian problems). That is why IRC is great when you have a reasonably well-researched and specific question. Before you ask a dev (who may be working on fixing the problem, or may have already fixed it, or may be plagued by the same question over and over again) please read how to ask a question properly. That way you are maximizing the chance that you get the right answer, people won't get mad at you, and you won't be wasting anyone else's time.

Mysql and postgresql are mysteriously missing from SuSE after the acquisition

I wouldn't worry too much. Although I don't have data to support this, I believe that the majority of SuSE supporters are running either MySQL or PostgreSQL in their environments.

Could Novell/Oracle really afford to have the thousands of enthusiests jump ship? These people provide the majority of the technical support and development to OpenSuSE. If they did exclude two of the highest profiled RDMSs, it would be the end of SuSE. Period.

Hmm... Well, I haven't found many postings about the AR5005G and ndiswrapper, but I've had loads of success with ndiswrapper, so I'd give it a try.

The Marvell Yukon sk98lin module seems to have problems with ACPI allocation of IRQs. Apparently a new module may be needed, or append the following line to your kernel configuration, acpi=noirq.

Quote:"Hi all, thanks for this post. After working about 1 full day on this problem, I found this post and the 'acpi=noirq' option seems to work on my new Toshiba M45-S2692. Whew! I've only been running about 10 minutes now, so I don't know if a slow-down will occur or not, but we will see. I'll post again after it runs awhile."

More information:
http://forums.suselinuxsupport.de/lofiversion/inde x.php/t22077.html

Many laptops have non-standard ACPI configurations, these can be a serious problem. I haven't run into it on modern Sony or HP laptops, but I have had problems with this on Dells. Usually, either acpi=noirq or an updated DSDT table fix this. On SuSE, anyways, both of these options are fairly easy to enable without mucking around in too many configuration files.

I do apologize for not believing you outright. I had not realized there was such a problem with this kernel module, but in my defense I haven't messed with any Marvell Yukon adapters. You may consider filing the a bug report with the maintainers, if you are feeling charitable.

More information, SuSE on your laptop line. More details on it being some sort of ACPI problem. http://www.suseforums.net/index.php?s=1c1a1b2f45b1 924eca3941b91e53ff7d&showtopic=18920&pid=107003&st =0&#entry107003

Positive result with the AR5005G and ndiswrapper on SuSE. This is with a different Toshiba Laptop model:
http://www.suseforums.net/lofiversion/index.php/t1 7840.html

His main problem was getting the WPA-PSK key the same across all computers, since SuSE expects the end of the key to have padding 0, for a full 64 characters, while the Linksys router did not. I believe the latest OpenSuSE runs a recent ndiswrapper, so try that.

Hmm... Well, I haven't found many postings about the AR5005G and ndiswrapper, but I've had loads of success with ndiswrapper, so I'd give it a try.

The Marvell Yukon sk98lin module seems to have problems with ACPI allocation of IRQs. Apparently a new module may be needed, or append the following line to your kernel configuration, acpi=noirq.

Quote:"Hi all, thanks for this post. After working about 1 full day on this problem, I found this post and the 'acpi=noirq' option seems to work on my new Toshiba M45-S2692. Whew! I've only been running about 10 minutes now, so I don't know if a slow-down will occur or not, but we will see. I'll post again after it runs awhile."

More information:
http://forums.suselinuxsupport.de/lofiversion/inde x.php/t22077.html

Many laptops have non-standard ACPI configurations, these can be a serious problem. I haven't run into it on modern Sony or HP laptops, but I have had problems with this on Dells. Usually, either acpi=noirq or an updated DSDT table fix this. On SuSE, anyways, both of these options are fairly easy to enable without mucking around in too many configuration files.

I do apologize for not believing you outright. I had not realized there was such a problem with this kernel module, but in my defense I haven't messed with any Marvell Yukon adapters. You may consider filing the a bug report with the maintainers, if you are feeling charitable.

More information, SuSE on your laptop line. More details on it being some sort of ACPI problem. http://www.suseforums.net/index.php?s=1c1a1b2f45b1 924eca3941b91e53ff7d&showtopic=18920&pid=107003&st =0&#entry107003

Positive result with the AR5005G and ndiswrapper on SuSE. This is with a different Toshiba Laptop model:
http://www.suseforums.net/lofiversion/index.php/t1 7840.html

His main problem was getting the WPA-PSK key the same across all computers, since SuSE expects the end of the key to have padding 0, for a full 64 characters, while the Linksys router did not. I believe the latest OpenSuSE runs a recent ndiswrapper, so try that.

okay, okay... we all still have to test it. but this has good potential to become _the_ distribution. It performs we on both the server side with (with standards, service, licencing, training, certifying, oracle, etc. etc.), and on the desktop side (with loads of UI improvements, YaST, quicker booting, suspend to disk, automatic network configuring).

And it seems that also the doing well on both the corporate (Novell Desktop, SuSE entreprise) and the freesoftware side with this glorious new release.

i really whish OpenSuse the best, yet im not installing right now since 9.3 still does all i need and i have a lack of spare time already. but i will be soon!

if you are installing make shure to check out:
http://www.suseforums.net/ -- all things suse inlcuding community support, and
http://packman.links2linux.org/ -- the missing (some times not fully legal) mulitmedia packages.

g'luck,
Cies Breijs.

http://www.suseforums.net/index.php?showtopic=1308 6

YOU already has fixes to the kdemultimediapackage that corrects the MP3 problems. I don't know why they'd cripple MP3 support to begin with, but it's nice they fixed things so quickly.

12 days ago the direct download urls were posted here and this news was reported by a different submitter to /. and posted offtopic to another news article here but I guess (yet again) my submission was rejected. I enjoy reading /. but I guess I'll stop submitting articles.