It took a while for me to get Beryl running on openSUSE 10.2 and my nvidia 6200. I referred to the openSUSE wiki on nvidia and beryl, but no it didn’t work.
The solution? Well on the Nvidia wiki page, I resorted to setting up my driver the “hardway“. Actually its not so difficult really, grab the kernel-source package, and make sure you are running the latest available kernel (in my case the package: kernel-default), and your pretty much all set to go by running:
blockquote>sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-9746-pkg1.run -q
And if you haven’t set up your xorg.conf yet:
sax2 -r -m 0=nvidia
Now your all set to go! Apply the necessary changes required on the Beryl wiki page.
So Beryl is up and running, with one exception, the window title’s didn’t appear! Only a quick google away, and a solution was found.
Simply insert the following into the “Screen” section
Option “AddARGBGLXVisuals” “True”
Option “DisableGLXRootClipping” “True”
So how does Beryl look on my Samsung SyncMaster 940BW? Totally awesome, it really wets your pants :3.
Of course Beryl is pretty pointless, but if people bring up the new graphics effects in Windows Vista, I can just show them my visually pleasing desktop. Best part of all, on my IBM ThinkPad R52 (i915) when doing the cube effect with a video playing, you won’t see it move. On this spare machine, it moves with the flow :3
My friend had a spare wireless card (Belkin F5D7000 Wireless G Desktop Network Card) PCI card lying around, and I decided to give it a shot and set it up, for experimental purposes. Yes, I’ll keep wearing my white hat, at least for now.
In the past I’ve played around with Wireless, in terms of breaking WEP keys, and watching and listening to kismet beep. Very childish stuff.
Initially the card didn’t work in openSUSE 10.2. As the card relied on the rt2500 module, I tried modprobe -i rt2500 to no success.
After looking at the openSUSE Network Adapters (Wireless) site, I discovered I needed to install from source. So I went to the projects site, and grabbed the lastest source (as of now v 1.1.0-b4).
Note: You need to grab the latest kernel source. Do this from the package manager. What you want is the package kernel-source. As of now (8th March 2007), openSUSE is running the 2.6.18.2 kernel.
New user instructions (each one line). Make sure to run as root:
tar -zxvf rt2500-1.1.0-b4.tar.gz
cd rt2500-1.1.0-b4/Module/
make
make install
modprobe -i rt2500
Now the card should be running perfectly fine.
If the module is loaded (execute: lsmod | grep rt2500 , if there is output, it has been loaded) and your still having problems, I suggest going to Yast > Network Devices > Network Card, and now you should see “Belkin F5D7000 Wireless G Desktop Network Card” under the available list of network cards.
Sadly the rt2500 driver won’t work in Master Mode, meaning I can’t create my own access point. I’ll keep trying to hack this, and maybe I’ll get something out of it. Monitor Mode, does work though, but that’s not as fun.
Sadly I’ve had to install openSUSE 10.2 on a spare machine of mine for testing purposes. But wow, the installation was very clean, and quite responsive on an old 2100+ AMD machine. In fact its running quite well on only 512MB of ram, and a very old card (32MB TNT) powering my brand new widescreen Samsung 940BW.
Dare I say, delicious?
But I haven’t used SUSE in ages, last one was 9.1, and still at that time I didn’t get into it much. Though it comes in 5 Cds, I preferred to use an Internet repository to pull any additional packages I need. Another minor point is that by default it tends to install a lot of other packages, which I might not need. Luckily you can configure it during installation, but still a lot of stuff.
There are instructions on how to set the repository up, but I suggest following the command line way. Its faster, and I believe more convenient (you can hide the terminal in the far side of the screen or something).
Taken from the site, (these commands should appear one line each):
su
rpm –import http://linux01.gwdg.de/~pbleser/guru-rpm.asc http://packman.unixheads.com/suse/10.2/gpg-pubkey-1abd1afb.asc
zypper -v sa http://ftp.skynet.be/pub/ftp.opensuse.org/opensuse/distribution/10.2/repo/oss/ suse-oss102
zypper -v sa http://ftp.skynet.be/pub/ftp.opensuse.org/opensuse/distribution/10.2/repo/non-oss/ suse-non-oss102
zypper -v sa http://ftp.skynet.be/pub/ftp.suse.com/suse/update/10.2/ update102
zypper -v sa http://ftp.skynet.be/pub/suser-guru/rpm/10.2/ guru102
zypper -v sa http://ftp.skynet.be/pub/packman/suse/10.2/ packman102
Note: For nVIDIA users, you might want to follow these instructions, which worked like a charm.
Then go fire up Yast > Software > Software Management, and search for whatever you want. I quickly pulled down Apache, MySQL, SubVersion, and alot of other things.
