Hi again!
So for some days now I have been testing open SuSE 11.2. Found some party tricks I would like to share to save you other some hassle. But first of all I must really send my appreciations to the SuSE team. Darn, I think you made it again! 10.3 was good, this is excellent!
First, if you do have a network that acts up when you try to packet scale (i do have those subnets at work), before you try any network traffic leave the graphical installation with ctrl + alt + F2 and type “echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_window_scaling” to disable packet scaling. Then simply return to the graphics with alt+F7 and continue.
Second. If you, like me, have an HP Pavilion DV7 vith a NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT adapter inside. Download the driver from NVIDIA’s site and install it. That will make it possible to have all the new eye candy activated.
Third. Add the “enable_msi” with an value of “1” to get your sound card running without the jitter.
To add mp3 support and get a fully functional media player follow the suggestions here:
http://lizards.opensuse.org/2009/09/12/11-2-64-bit-and-mp3/
I added Skype yesterday and downloaded the SuSE package from their site. I had to add 32-bit QT to get i running, but that was pretty obvious from the error codes once you started it from the terminal.
I will add tricks here when I discover them.
Till then.
