Posted in Linux, OpenSUSE, Tips & Tricks on July 25th, 2008 No Comments »
If you are reading this, most likely it’s because you are trying to figure out how to get Amazon’s MP3 downloader to work in OpenSUSE 11.0. If that’s the case, I have a solution (until Amazon comes out with an official version for OpenSUSE 11.0.) If you have the “boost” package installed, remove it. $ [...]
Posted in Open Source, Rants, Tips & Tricks on July 17th, 2008 No Comments »
The other day I ran into a rather annoying issue. I was trying to copy all the data from a Mac OS X computer to a FAT32 flash drive. The problem was, it kept on choking on me. It was because the person that created those files used colons in the file name. (Well, in [...]
Posted in Linux, Open Source, OpenSUSE, Tips & Tricks on July 13th, 2008 2 Comments »
Before I get started, let me just say this was (to my knowledge) the easiest way to get MIDI support working. It’s not really the recommended way of doing things, but it works non-the-less. I used a couple packages from the Fedora Core 9 repositories. Download the “libtimidity” and “gstreamer-plugins-bad” packages. Install the libtimidity package [...]
Posted in Linux, Open Source, OpenSUSE, Tips & Tricks on July 13th, 2008 10 Comments »
OpenSUSE 11.0 actually makes this quite simple. Just follow the steps in this order.. Superuser yourself. bjohnson@ThinkSUSE:~> su Install the b43-fwcutter package. ThinkSUSE:~> yast -i b43-fwcutter Unload the loaded b43legacy module. ThinkSUSE:-> rmmod b43legacy Install the bcm43xx firmware. ThinkSUSE:-> install_bcm43xx_firmware Load the b43legacy module. ThinkSUSE:-> modprobe b43legacy Enjoy Update: I don’t feel as if this [...]
Posted in General, Linux, Open Source, OpenSUSE, Random Stuff, Rants, Reviews on July 7th, 2008 No Comments »
In no particular order… OpenSUSE 11.0 came out a couple weeks ago. I’ve been using it since about Beta 2. I think it’s a great improvement over OpenSUSE 10.3. For example, I now have basic 3D acceleration without installing any ATI drivers, and I have native 3G support. However, there are two bugs which are [...]