Howto: Get Audio, Video, Ipods, Wireless Cards And More Working

Audio:
Open up YaST and click on "Installation Source." Click Add and then select Specify URL. Add http://mirrors.kernel.org/opensuse/distrib...t-source-extra/ . Once it's done its thing go to Software Management. Search for "banshee" and remove all the banshee packages from your system (banshee, banshee-engine-gst, banshee-plugins-default). Select the helix-banshee packages to install (helix-banshee, helix-banshee-engine-helix, helix-banshee-plugins-default) and then click accept on the bottom. You'll now have an audio player capable of playing mp3s, m4as and a host of other files.

iPod:
Install gtkpod. In Gnome you can right click the iPod on the desktop and go to properies. On the last tab there should be an option to change the mount point. Simply type "ipod." Alternatively you can open a terminal and type su and enter the system's root password. Then type in 'ln -s /dev/sda2 /media/ipod' without the quotes and hit enter. You should be able to use gtkpod to add mp3 files to your iPod. From my experience iPod support isn't working in Banshee.

Video:
Download the latest version of these packages to a directory and install them by highlighting them, right clicking and selecting 'Open with "Install Software".'

w32codecs-all
imlib2
libcaca
speex
libxine1
totem
totem-browser-plugin

They can be downloaded from http://packman.unixheads.com/suse/10.2/i586/ .
You could also add the Packman repository in YaST, but I personally like to know all my packages came from the official repository and I manually installed the 3rd party ones.

Wireless cards:
Is your driver not supported on a default install? Is your only solution ndiswrapper? Follow the guide at http://en.opensuse.org/Ndiswrapper_howto

BitTorrent:
Install python-crypto, python-twisted-web and python-wx.
Download the source package from http://www.bittorrent.com and execute bittorrent.py to run it.

Evolution:
Not remembering your passwords? Install pam_keyring and restart X.

I can't find the helix-banshee RPM's anywhere - I've added the source you mentioned to YAST and it's not showing up!

Thanks a lot, but in Bittorrent i have this problem :

titoone:/home/gabox/Documents/BitTorrent-5.0.4 # rpm -i dist/BitTorrent-5.0.4-1.noarch.rpm
error: Failed dependencies:
python-psyco is needed by BitTorrent-5.0.4-1.noarch

i cant found python-psyco.rpm for suse 10.2

see you and thanks.

helix-banshee seems to have been removed from that repository, so I'm going to search the next few days for a working mirror. Very annoying since it was the only source of mp3 playback using banshee.

UPDATE: Yea it seems to have been removed from the opensuse repos, but http://banshee-project.org/Distributions/SUSE says it should be found in the 10.2 DVD. I installed via the CD so I can't confirm this. It's a shame this great piece of software isn't useable on Suse. If anyone finds any working mirrors let us know!

Yea the RPM package doesn't work for BitTorrrent, you need to get the source package. Visit http://download.bittorrent.com/dl/?M=D and download the latest .tar.gz file, be sure to have the above packages listed in the guide and then simply execute the bittorrent.py script in that folder.

ok thanks.!

i solved it with RPM python-psyco of suse 10.1

see you..