The install
OK, things were kind of broken after I did an upgrade. By kind of I'm pointing my finger in ATI's general direction as they were all video problems.
Booting of a live USB seemed to indicate a rebuild might fix it so I decided I'd take the plunge and go 64 bit.
The base install went fairly well. Booted from the network (after weird PXE DHCP issues) and installed from a local DVD copy. Pretty much took the defaults except I added Gnome (I still favour KDE but backup's are good). Haven't mapped in my old /home yet, just incase.
So far the only tweak at a hardware'ish level is to set the model for the sound card to alienware. For some reason this permits the sound to work when I have the external speakers plugged in, but I can't see any 5.1 options. I'll worry about that later if needed.
Using the radeon driver I've got Kwin compositing working out of the box. There's a little frame tearing and it's nowhere near as smooth as when I used fglrx on 11.2. Will have to see if ATI's going to play nicely in the near future, but for now the base desktop is working.
Installing Skype was a pain. Fortunately I had a reference box I could look at to discover I needed
zypper in libqt4-32bit libqt4-x11-32bit libpng12-0-32bit
to get the 32 bit dependencies working. Would be nice if they provided a 64 bit version for distro's other than Ubuntu.
The wireless (identifies as Broadcom Corporation BCM43224 802.11a/b/g/n [14e4:4353] (rev 01))card needs extra drivers/firmware so I've installed broadcom-wl-kmp-desktop from pacman. From memory that's the one I used in 11.2 so we'll see after a reboot if it works.
The first update from the applet installed flash and the ms-fonts. Seems to have gone ok, flash is working in a 64 bit firefox and chrome. www.kongregate.com works so my flash games are safe.
Now to install some games, etc and leave it for the night. Will have to see how it goes in the morning.
Booting of a live USB seemed to indicate a rebuild might fix it so I decided I'd take the plunge and go 64 bit.
The base install went fairly well. Booted from the network (after weird PXE DHCP issues) and installed from a local DVD copy. Pretty much took the defaults except I added Gnome (I still favour KDE but backup's are good). Haven't mapped in my old /home yet, just incase.
So far the only tweak at a hardware'ish level is to set the model for the sound card to alienware. For some reason this permits the sound to work when I have the external speakers plugged in, but I can't see any 5.1 options. I'll worry about that later if needed.
Using the radeon driver I've got Kwin compositing working out of the box. There's a little frame tearing and it's nowhere near as smooth as when I used fglrx on 11.2. Will have to see if ATI's going to play nicely in the near future, but for now the base desktop is working.
Installing Skype was a pain. Fortunately I had a reference box I could look at to discover I needed
zypper in libqt4-32bit libqt4-x11-32bit libpng12-0-32bit
to get the 32 bit dependencies working. Would be nice if they provided a 64 bit version for distro's other than Ubuntu.
The wireless (identifies as Broadcom Corporation BCM43224 802.11a/b/g/n [14e4:4353] (rev 01))card needs extra drivers/firmware so I've installed broadcom-wl-kmp-desktop from pacman. From memory that's the one I used in 11.2 so we'll see after a reboot if it works.
The first update from the applet installed flash and the ms-fonts. Seems to have gone ok, flash is working in a 64 bit firefox and chrome. www.kongregate.com works so my flash games are safe.
Now to install some games, etc and leave it for the night. Will have to see how it goes in the morning.
posted by Zenophran at 11:57 pm
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