CalinJugarean, Welcome to the openSUSE forums! Lets see if we can help you out. First off, you do know that openSUSE 11.4 is still in pre-release and so some issues you may have are not due to anything wrong on your computer, but due to a problem is this very early release? You will need to tell us more about your computer hardware and specifically what Graphics chipset that you are using. For instance, I must add the **nomodeset **command due to the nVIDIA graphics card and I must load their proprietary video driver, then all works just fine. I don’t know what to suggest to you without knowing a little more about your hardware.
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Yes, 11.3 works fine.
I am really thinking I would stick with openSUSE 11.3 right now if I were you. We are expecting openSUSE 11.4 M6 any day now, which you could try, but really, using this pre-release version is intended to find and report bugs, which you could do, but no prediction on how well it will work for you.
James - that may well be a smart move, depending on what moves out of the Factory repos to MS6. However, if you are using MS5 already, you may have noticed that the update for MS5 is partially broken. Adding the Factory OSS and X.org repos fixes the issue.
Known items in the X.org Factory repo: New Intel, nVidia, and AMD FOSS drivers; of particular interest so far is improved support for onboard Intel and AMD graphics hardware (and AMD HD-series GPUs from HD5xxx and lower are now officially supported with hardware acceleration; I have verified this personally).
KDE Factory: KDE is now at 4.5.95 (4.6 RC 2).
By ‘hardware acceleration’ do you mean ‘HD acceleration’ ? (ie hardware GPU acceleration in decoding of HD videos ? ).
If so, is there any special setup required? … and if special setup is needed, then is there any chance you could write a brief guide on how to obtain the hardware acceleration ?
For example, to take advantage of nVidia’s hardware HD acceleration (CPU offloading of video decoding to GPU) requires one install the proprietary nVidia driver and also install mplayer with libvdpau1.
Adding the Factory OSS and X.org repos
I do not see any newer packages in repositories/X11:/XOrg/openSUSE_Factory/ than in factory/repo/oss/factory/repo/oss/
I am referring specifically to DRI2 acceleration (including OpenGL acceleration) in hardware (which is generally what’s necessary for generic 3D desktop stuff such as kwin or compiz to work). It’s also needed for Flash acceleration to work. (Without DRI or DRI2, Flash performance in Linux bites; also, without OpenGL, neither kwin or compiz performs at their best. While XRender can compensate, it’s not as smooth as OpenGL, which anyone that uses the proprietary Linux Catalyst driver for AMD, which defaults to XRender, not OpenGL, can tell you.)
KDE performance is the best I’ve seen it on this hardware, and that includes performance from the proprietary driver.
For video viewing, I’ve generally used VLC (from the Packman repo) and that I have very little issue with performance-wise; my issue with VLC isn’t even VLC’s fault (but has to do with issues regarding particular non-OSS codecs)
I’ve generally not had issues with video playback, as I have always used VLC from the Packman repo.
Where the pain has come in has been desktop performance (specifically kwin/compiz-style 3D desktop acceleration and acceleration of Flash content) - that requires, at minimum, DRI or DRI2 support (for the 2D and Flash side) and OpenGL support (for 3D/compiz/kwin), and, until now, that has required the proprietary drivers from AMD for the HD5xxx and earlier (back to HD2xxx) GPUs.
As to what I did, basically I did nothing. It’s a default setup, literally.
I can’t even install the latest VLC (from Packman) because of a dependency issue.
How new is your PC ? Is it a quad core, or a dual core? If an older dual core or single core-64/32 bit, it could be it will only play back the highest resolution (and highest bit-rate) HD (high definition) videos with HD acceleration (ie offload decode of video from CPU to GPU).
That might give you a better flavour as to what is involved.
My P8400 Dual Core PC (with 4GB RAM and a Radeon HD3450 and proprietary ATI Catalyst driver) struggles with the video in post#16 in that thread. But my single core 32-bit athlon-2800 (w/Proprietary nVidia driver) and a nVidia GeForce 8400GS can play that same video ok with mplayer (using VDPAU).
I have installed OpenSUSE 11.4 M5 as primary system, because I’m ill and have nothing to do .
I don’t know, that better to attach my bug report to this thread or create new. Thread was called: “OpenSUSE 11.4 M5”, so I think, this is a good place.
After installing OpenSUSE 11.4 M5 I have lost whole day on Yast problem - adding new repository. Zypper always adds new repo without errors, but Yast often disabling error like “grep: broken pipe” and repository won’t been added. Without possibility to add repo with Yast I can’t use One Click Install technology.
This forum is not for bug reports. This forum is more for informat chatting about a problem before we submit a bug report, or pointing out to others bug reports that exist, and exchanging experience/stories about our efforts, and asking for help in areas.
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