Posted by admin on 30th June 2008
In openSUSE 10.0 & openSUSE 11.0, enabling Desktop effects or Compiz Fusion can cause Video Playback issues and in some cases, there will not be any video displayed. This happens on Intel Display chipset based PCs and Laptops.
The problem seems to be with the Intel Display (XV) drivers. The XVideo extension is not composite aware and draws blue instead of video on areas where the composite manager is doing work. To workaround this issue, you need to switch favorite video player’s output from XV to X11, XImage or XShm.
NOTE: Doing this has can cause degraded performance issues on your Desktop or laptop. This is a workaround only.
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Posted by admin on 30th June 2008
USB devices will be detected automatically on your openSUSE or SUSE linux Destop or Server and mounted. But, if it isn’t mounted then you in an unusual instance then you end up tracing the device path and mounting it manaully.
To find the device path, there are two easy ways, one using “dmesg” and the other is using the /proc filesystem.
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Posted by admin on 28th June 2008
you are running openSUSE 10.3 and have Broadcom bcm4311 Rev2 Wireless card installed on your computer then the Linux Kernel needs to be updated and then download install the latest b43 drivers from linuxwireless.
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Posted by admin on 28th June 2008
When you upgrade to openSUSE 11.0 or install openSUSE 11.0, you may find the Intell 3945 a/b/g Wireless connections may be slow or sluggish or even unreliable. This would worked well on the previous openSUSE 10.x versions. It looks the default drivers iwlwifi is not supported on Linux Kernel 2.6.24 and higher and openSUSE 11.0 comes built with Linux Kernel 2.6.25-1.1
NOTE: Seems to be a problem with Intel PRO/Wireless 4965 AGIntel PRO/Wireless 4965 AG wireless cards and the procedure discussed here should work.
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Posted by admin on 28th June 2008
The rt2xxxpci drivers that comes with openSUSE 10.3 and openSUSE 11.0 works OK but there has been lot of users having performance and connectivity issues using this driver. The Serial Monkey rt2x00 drivers should overcome these issues.
The procedure to install the driver includes building te Kernel module.
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