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OK, I've talked about doing this lots before, and now I've gone and done it. I've just installed Suse 9.2 64-bit on my 2nd hard drive.
And damn am I impressed! It was so much more user friendly than I was expecting - it recognised everything! It got graphics card, sound card, tv card, monitor, printer, bluetooth, the whole works!
However, it's inevitable that I'm gonna have a few bugs and questions. Probably really simple ones, but which you can't find the answers to online cos they're so basic.
First one I've come across - I want to install Firefox and Thunderbird. How and where do I install these? I tried it from RPMs and that's fine for Firefox, but the latest RPM I could find for Thunderbird was 0.8 and I want 1.0. How do I go about doing this?
Cheers.
And damn am I impressed! It was so much more user friendly than I was expecting - it recognised everything! It got graphics card, sound card, tv card, monitor, printer, bluetooth, the whole works!
However, it's inevitable that I'm gonna have a few bugs and questions. Probably really simple ones, but which you can't find the answers to online cos they're so basic.
First one I've come across - I want to install Firefox and Thunderbird. How and where do I install these? I tried it from RPMs and that's fine for Firefox, but the latest RPM I could find for Thunderbird was 0.8 and I want 1.0. How do I go about doing this?
Cheers.
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OK, a few developments of late.
My Windows drive kind of stopped booting - some kinda registry blue screen flashes at bootup then it restarts.
So I've decided to reinstall Windows and have done so as a minimal install - just for games really.
This now means I intend to use my Linux installation as my main OS. I've got most things sorted now - music, shared files, emails, MSN, TV card, etc.
However, one thing I don't know how to do is regarding the multiple desktops. I have 6 desktops setup - Net, Email, MSN, Music, Work, Other. Is there any way to get programs to always load in a certain desktop? i.e. Firefox always loads in the Net desktop, Thunderbird in Email, GAIM in MSN, etc etc. I've tried googling but didn't really know how to phrase it and thus didn't find anything.
My Windows drive kind of stopped booting - some kinda registry blue screen flashes at bootup then it restarts.
So I've decided to reinstall Windows and have done so as a minimal install - just for games really.
This now means I intend to use my Linux installation as my main OS. I've got most things sorted now - music, shared files, emails, MSN, TV card, etc.
However, one thing I don't know how to do is regarding the multiple desktops. I have 6 desktops setup - Net, Email, MSN, Music, Work, Other. Is there any way to get programs to always load in a certain desktop? i.e. Firefox always loads in the Net desktop, Thunderbird in Email, GAIM in MSN, etc etc. I've tried googling but didn't really know how to phrase it and thus didn't find anything.
Nimco wrote:
> This version of Xine lacks support for playing DVD discs for legal
> reasons.
>
> And I can browse the DVD fine. It's mounted in /media/dvdram/
Oh well, it's just a matter of finding a working DVD player then. You could try mplayer but it's a command-line tool (you may already have it installed - try "mplayer dvd://1" at the command-line with a DVD in the drive) and as such is a pain in the harris to use.
> Also, any way to make the fonts for menus and things smaller in
> programs? I've changed all the font settings in Control Centre, but
> programs still use big font.
Mmm, without KDE to hand (I'm at work, I can only access my machine via ssh at the mo) I can't advise you on that. I've always found Linux fonts to be an inexact science, although that's probably down to my ignorance rather than it's inconsistency.
> And another thing, the Windows key only works to load the K menu when
> num-lock is off. Can I change this?
Pass. I generally hit up the Gentoo forums for problems like this, I assume SuSe has something similar.
Sorry I can't be more help :0/
> This version of Xine lacks support for playing DVD discs for legal
> reasons.
>
> And I can browse the DVD fine. It's mounted in /media/dvdram/
Oh well, it's just a matter of finding a working DVD player then. You could try mplayer but it's a command-line tool (you may already have it installed - try "mplayer dvd://1" at the command-line with a DVD in the drive) and as such is a pain in the harris to use.
> Also, any way to make the fonts for menus and things smaller in
> programs? I've changed all the font settings in Control Centre, but
> programs still use big font.
Mmm, without KDE to hand (I'm at work, I can only access my machine via ssh at the mo) I can't advise you on that. I've always found Linux fonts to be an inexact science, although that's probably down to my ignorance rather than it's inconsistency.
> And another thing, the Windows key only works to load the K menu when
> num-lock is off. Can I change this?
Pass. I generally hit up the Gentoo forums for problems like this, I assume SuSe has something similar.
Sorry I can't be more help :0/
Cheers for your help with the mouse. That works fine now. I just found a forum that gave exactly the same suggestion as you.
With regards to Xine, it says:
This version of Xine lacks support for playing DVD discs for legal reasons.
And I can browse the DVD fine. It's mounted in /media/dvdram/
Also, any way to make the fonts for menus and things smaller in programs? I've changed all the font settings in Control Centre, but programs still use big font.
And another thing, the Windows key only works to load the K menu when num-lock is off. Can I change this?
With regards to Xine, it says:
This version of Xine lacks support for playing DVD discs for legal reasons.
And I can browse the DVD fine. It's mounted in /media/dvdram/
Also, any way to make the fonts for menus and things smaller in programs? I've changed all the font settings in Control Centre, but programs still use big font.
And another thing, the Windows key only works to load the K menu when num-lock is off. Can I change this?
I use xine or sometimes mplayer to watch DVDs. What error messages, if any, does xine produce? Is your DVD mounted (i.e. can you browse through the files on the DVD)?
Regarding your scrollmouse problems, the only way I know to fix it is to edit your X server config file directly. Browse to /etc/X11 in a file manager (or "ls -l /etc/X11" at the command line). Assuming this is the right directory (it is on Gentoo, but it may not be on SuSe), look at the list of files. One of these should be your main X-server configuration file. This is likely to be either XF86Config, XF86Config-4 or xorg.conf. If you can identify which one it is, open it in your favourite text editor as root.
Scroll down, and look for the section that refers to your mouse, which is usually somewhere near the bottom (a text search for "mouse" will probably help). The start of mine is shown below. Assuming you don't have it, add the last line from my config below. This should assign mouse buttons four and five to z-axis scroll, which I'm lead to believe are up and down on the scrollwheel.
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Add this line
Note that you'll need to restart your X-server for the changes to take effect. Ctrl+Alt+Backspace should immediately nuke and restart it (warning: it won't ask you if you want to save your work first :0|).
Regarding your scrollmouse problems, the only way I know to fix it is to edit your X server config file directly. Browse to /etc/X11 in a file manager (or "ls -l /etc/X11" at the command line). Assuming this is the right directory (it is on Gentoo, but it may not be on SuSe), look at the list of files. One of these should be your main X-server configuration file. This is likely to be either XF86Config, XF86Config-4 or xorg.conf. If you can identify which one it is, open it in your favourite text editor as root.
Scroll down, and look for the section that refers to your mouse, which is usually somewhere near the bottom (a text search for "mouse" will probably help). The start of mine is shown below. Assuming you don't have it, add the last line from my config below. This should assign mouse buttons four and five to z-axis scroll, which I'm lead to believe are up and down on the scrollwheel.
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Add this line
Note that you'll need to restart your X-server for the changes to take effect. Ctrl+Alt+Backspace should immediately nuke and restart it (warning: it won't ask you if you want to save your work first :0|).
OK, Thunderbird has randomly started working now. Still a few little niggly things.
1) Anyone recommend any good DVD players? I look on YAST and it recommended Xine and Kaffeine, but neither of these will play DVDs when I try.
2) My middle mouse button has stopped working for scrolling. Middle click still works, but not scrolling. How do I change it back? Does Linux use drivers as such?
1) Anyone recommend any good DVD players? I look on YAST and it recommended Xine and Kaffeine, but neither of these will play DVDs when I try.
2) My middle mouse button has stopped working for scrolling. Middle click still works, but not scrolling. How do I change it back? Does Linux use drivers as such?
Or FeatherLinux ;)
Coin wrote:
> Gentoo?
>
> What are the advantages of each?
I would not recommend Gentoo to a Linux newbie. You have to set up Gentoo by hand, and while there's a brilliant installation guide it's not quite brilliant enough to escort a newbie through the whole process. In addition you *will* need another computer with an internet connection to attempt a Gentoo install from scratch.
If you're just looking to dip your toe in with Linux, start with Mandrake, Fedora, SuSe or possibly Ubuntu. Alternatively download the brilliant Knoppix, which is a Linux distribution that runs off a CD and doesn't require any installation to your hard disk. This will at least give you a taste of what Linux looks like, although you wouldn't be able to do practical things like run servers off it.
> Gentoo?
>
> What are the advantages of each?
I would not recommend Gentoo to a Linux newbie. You have to set up Gentoo by hand, and while there's a brilliant installation guide it's not quite brilliant enough to escort a newbie through the whole process. In addition you *will* need another computer with an internet connection to attempt a Gentoo install from scratch.
If you're just looking to dip your toe in with Linux, start with Mandrake, Fedora, SuSe or possibly Ubuntu. Alternatively download the brilliant Knoppix, which is a Linux distribution that runs off a CD and doesn't require any installation to your hard disk. This will at least give you a taste of what Linux looks like, although you wouldn't be able to do practical things like run servers off it.
Gentoo?
What are the advantages of each?
What are the advantages of each?
Coin wrote:
> Also, how would you go about setting up a server with Linux? Is there
> a special server variant?
Because I'm a Gentoo zealot I'd personally reccomend Gentoo.
But there again, there are other variants of Unix that'll do the job perfectly, FreeBSD being an example.
Debian being another good one.
> Also, how would you go about setting up a server with Linux? Is there
> a special server variant?
Because I'm a Gentoo zealot I'd personally reccomend Gentoo.
But there again, there are other variants of Unix that'll do the job perfectly, FreeBSD being an example.
Debian being another good one.
Cheers.
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