10.2 Teething Problems

Hi everyone,
Just started with Suse 10.2 and have a couple of issues that i need help with.
I'm new to all this so please be patient with and my lack of knowledge.
Ok here we go:
1, Epson V10 scanner driver not being picked up. I get this message when trying
to choose the driver manually:
"The package could not be installed but it contains proprietary binary-only i386-only software.
Therefore it is only available for i386-compatible architectures and it may cause problems on AMD
64-bit (x86_64) systems.
Some scanners are also supported by another driver. If you want to install iscan, you must do it manually"
And then the message "The driver epkowa requires iscan " , "Failed to activate epkowa"

So i had a look around the forums are then tried the command sane-find-scanner and it detected a USB scanner although scanimage -L said no scanners were identified.
So what should i do next??

2.Flash9
Downloaded the .rpm file, went to the terminal and installed with no problems but when i go to a website needing flash, i get the message to install flash. I had another quick read on the forums and decided to copy the libflashplayer.so file to /usr/lib/browser-plugins folder but still no joy.
Any ideas???

3. ATI Mobility Radeon X1300. Under My Computer settings, i get the unknown driver message for the Display info section. I've tried to download the driver from ATI's website but i try to run check.sh from the terminal first to find which version of XFree86 i have but get the message:
"You are either not running this script from the console
or simply do not have console ownership. Requirement failed.
Unable to determine XFree86 Version. Stopping now.."

Also I would also like my screen fonts to be smaller, For example, the KDE menu takes almost half of my screen and i presume this is due to the driver for the ATI card not being recognised. Also, when i scroll down pages the scroll speed is very slow.

Thats it for now. I'm using a Dell Inspiron 6400 with Duo Core processor and don't feel very computer literate right now. I've only started using Linux for 2 days now so i feel like i'm walking on egg shells at the moment.
I appreciate any help anyone can send my way and looking forward to learning.

I am hoping to give you a good answer on point #3...

First are you running as root? You will need to in order to modify any driver stuff. (or add RPM's of any kind).

Second, if you are running 10.2 you are not running XFree86 (older display manager) you are running Xorg. Does the ATI site state anything about which display manager the driver is for? You might want to check and see if there is one for Xorg. You are partially correct in your next statement. Your font size could change once the driver is installed.

Hope this helps.

Cheers!!

The ATI website has X.org 6.8 drivers which i'm downloading now. Will log in as root and try to
install these. Will let you know if i get any joy.

Thanks

Here's the results of the installation attempt:

Preparing... ########################################### [100%]
1:fglrx64_6_8_0 ########################################### [100%]
make.sh: line 39: gcc: command not found
make.sh: line 45: [: !=: unary operator expected
ln: creating symbolic link `/usr/lib/xorg/libGL.so': No such file or directory
ln: creating symbolic link `/usr/lib/xorg/libGL.so.1': No such file or directory

I can see one problem right off. You need to install the gcc compiler. With those ATI scripts you are actually compiling in the driver and it needs the gcc compiler along with the various tools but since you have the "make" executing it would appear you have the extra tools, just not gcc. You install it through the Yast -> Software Management tool. and use the search field for gcc.

Good luck!

I can see one problem right off. You need to install the gcc compiler. With those ATI scripts you are actually compiling in the driver and it needs the gcc compiler along with the various tools but since you have the "make" executing it would appear you have the extra tools, just not gcc. You install it through the Yast -> Software Management tool. and use the search field for gcc.

Good luck!
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Went into Yast and then the Software Management, starts initialising, then i get
the message:
Cannot access installation media
2007121-195632 CD1
Check that the server is accessible.

Are you installing from the network or from CD? Either this is a problem with your CD or the server you are using to install from is unreachable.

2. Flash9
Downloaded the .rpm file, went to the terminal and installed with no problems but when i go to a website needing flash, i get the message to install flash. I had another quick read on the forums and decided to copy the libflashplayer.so file to /usr/lib/browser-plugins folder but still no joy.[/b]

If you installed the rpm, then the "setup" script in the rpm should have installed libflashplayer.so in the directory /usr/lib/firefox/plugins/ and also in the directory /usr/lib/opera/plugins. You could also check to see if the file is in those directories.

Note, you typically need to restart firefox, for the flash to work the first time.

oldcpu is absolutely correct about the flash9 stuff. However, I would add the caveat that you can run into websites that for some reason won't run your flash9 player and tell you that you don't have it installed.

I'm not a big "media" type so I don't really care if it works or not since ...

RANT STARTS...

the web add-ons are not part of a standard and therefore allow for control of the internet by making people think that certain software that does follow standards are not as good as ones that have no concept of standards and then it makes them feel compelled to purchase this non-standard s/w in order for them to have the full internet experience.

RANT OVER!!
(there there bloggins... deep breathes.. go have a cookie and then shovel all of that snow out of your walkway).

I don't have either of the directories you have mentioned:
/usr/lib/firefox/plugins/ or directory /usr/lib/opera/plugins

Regarding the gcc compiler, i'm trying to install from network

I don't have either of the directories you have mentioned:
/usr/lib/firefox/plugins/ or directory /usr/lib/opera/plugins[/b]

What browser are you using? I had assumed (possibly incorrectly) that you were using either opera or firefox?

You note you installed the rpm from a terminal with no problem. Did you get any error messages?