Bo Wu's IT Lab

Recently, I installed the latest openSUSE 11.2.  I like it very much.  However, I still need to do following things in order to make it work better for me.

1. Network:

The machine could not access network right after the installation.  The reason is that I found both eth0 and br0 are up.  What I did is just remove the br0 and set static IP address for eth0.

The location for changing this setting is at YaST –> Network Devices –> Network Settings.

2. Multi-media Files:

Please see my another post at http://www.bowu.org/?p=106.

3.  Terminal Server Client (tsclient):

You can access remote Windows machines through Remote Desktop Protocal and Linux machines throught XDMCP.

Please go to YaST –>Software –> Package Search –>Search “tsclient” and install it.

An out-of-box openSUSE doesn’t include any codecs which are required to play multi-media files like MP3, MPEG-4 and others because they are restricted format files.  So, you need to install the codecs manually.

If you are using GNOME Desktop Environment:

1-click installation
codecs-gnome.ymp

This will enable you to have:

* Flash
* Java
* Latest Amarok (with MP3 Support) for KDE, or Helix-Banshee for GNOME users
* Encrypted DVD (libdvdcss)
* Extra xine codecs, for MPEG-4 etc. (libxine1)
* K3b with MP3 Support (k3b-codecs)
* Win 32 Codecs (w32codec-all)

..as well as the option of installing many more applications (select Customise mode at the screen), including:

* Opera
* VLC
* ..and more

If you are using the KDE Desktop Environment

1-click installation
codecs-kde.ymp

Note 1: On 32-bit systems there’ll be a dialog asking for about architecture change for libxine1 from from i586 to i686, accept that change.

Note 2: If you have already installed xine components (most people) then there is a version conflict with two codec packs: libxine1-codecs and k3b-codecs. You are presented with a warning dialog and conflict resolutions. Select the topmost “install” option “with vendor change” for everything to work.

For more information, please visit: http://opensuse-community.org/Restricted_Formats/11.2