whoo, im back \o/
been playing Xbox360 for a bit, bought Crackdown and been playing that for a while (also finally picked up Burnout Revenge as well, since I have the previous 3 Burnouts on the PS2… which looks crap on the Dell Widescreen) and tried out the GRAW2 Multiplayer Demo, might pick up the full game later once i’ve played Crackdown and B:R to death.
I also decided recently to give the latest version of OpenSUSE which as of putting this post, was 10.2. The first plan was to stick the original 40gig drive into my works-provided Toshiba Satellite Pro A60 (its got an 80gig drive for the imaging system we use) but I quickly changed my mind when I got home and slapped it onto my main rig “Toaster” instead, which is an Athlon Xp2600+ on an Nforce2 board (DFI Lanparty)
Last time I tried to install Linux onto Toaster, it was Ubuntu 6.06 and it didnt like even getting anywhere installing as it seemed to die detecting IDE drives, so I didnt expect OpenSUSE to go along smoothly.
Surprisingly after 2 hours, I had an almost working version of OpenSUSE on Toaster, running Gnome and it detected everything.. hell it even picked up the Dell 2407wfp Widescreen monitor (but there was minor dificulties with its resolutions) but I did have a few minor problems:
- 1920×1200 didnt display properly, felt more like 1900×1200 stretched as fonts were distorted
- Xvid/DIVX didnt work “out of the box” even with Libxine1 and W32codec-all added, ended up having to grab VLC client to get them to work properly
- SMB is knackered, I store all my videos and music on Brain which is a Synology Diskstation. OpenSUSE (and Ubuntu) cannot seem to access the files from SMB shares properly so all videos need copied down to local drives to view
- ALSA (Advanced Linux Sound Arch) does not like SPDIF and cannot output through it, yet OpenSUSE picks it up and can through sound testing. can you guess what every piece of software uses? (clue: not spdif)
But those are still quite minor problems and can be worked round either by running one lower res (1600×1200) or copying files down. Im sure using it more I might discover more faults if i used it a lot more.
On a side note, Crusader from Inside3d seems to be making a collection of the regulars blogs but I havnt told him about mine, lets see if his WordPress picks up this incoming link!
which reminds me, better upgrade to the latest version!
