Interesting. I’m sorry that you are having issues … I run 11.4 64-bit and have quite the opposite experience with point #1 and #2 (#3 sounds like more of a problem with LibreOffice, not openSUSE). I find that 11.4 has been one of the most stable releases of OpenSUSE in quite some time.
While I don’t use Chrome, I do use FireFox with Flash and Java and I do find it to be fairly snappy. I’ve not had either lock up on me or crash.
Did you install java and flash yourself, or did you go through YaST? Also, I tend to delete the openJDK version of Java and install sun’s (er, Oracle’s) java from the non-oss repo, as I find that it works better for me.
If you could post here what sites you are looking at (I don’t have problems with YouTube bear in mind) then that might help, as maybe the problem is reproducible. Also are you using “stock” Firefox or are you using the one from the Mozilla Repo? Have you changed any FireFox settings? Are you using opensource video drivers, or closed-source ones?
I wouldn’t say the most stable. When doing a new install, if you use a pppoe connection, it is impossible to run it on first go. One needs to use the linux-atm-lib from another distribution disc or download it sepparately in order to run pppoe. Apparently each time you need to run that, yast asks you to instal that but it can not find it on the disk, and is unable to set up dsl without that lib. Eitherway, related to flash videos, what hardware are you using? Might be graphic driver related. I am running 64 bit version and don’t have those issues. Also, katanacb, i am using the firefox ver. that came with opensuse. The beta 12. No issue so far. Might not be related to that necessarily…
Please gentleman, do not make this thread a mix of all sort of existing or non-existing bugs. One problem in a thread please.
And to the OP, your post looks more like a general remark then an asking for help. I think you must decide if this should have been in General Chitchat or here in the help forum on Multimedia. When the last is tha case, then please provide more information and describe your exact problems.
Hmm… Everything what I have installed is from OpenSuse repository (Flash, Firefox). Nvidia drivers are from nvidia website, chrome is from google website. This is my desktop: i7-920 2.6Ghz, 6GB ram, 2x Nvidia 9800GT SLI, SDD Zalman N64GB
Before I was running on the same machine opensuse 11.2 and no problems at all (only openoffice bug). Last month I tried opensuse 11.3 and everything was fine, but I havd problem with 4 screens. Now, no problem with 4 screens, but FF (javascript and flash) very slow ;( Before I was running at the same time Eclipse, VirtualBox, FF with tens of tabs opened, thunderbird with thousands of emails and everything was smooth.
On the other hand on my laptop, thinkpad x200, I have opensuse 11.3 and no issues at all, everything works out of box… even my Verizon broadband card.
The thing is that I am running right now VM with Windows7 on the top of opensuse 11.4 and it is very fast… no problems with flash and javascript ;(
I also faced the pppoe issue you have mentioned but this problem is limited to the KDE release. The Gnome release has no such issues. Both FF & Chrome are running perfectly. No issues with flash or java.
Having said that with gnome, maybe there is no harm to try disabling ipv6 with kde
He can do this in yast2-system-/etc/sysconfig editor-desktop-window manager-KDE_USE_IPV6 set it to NO
The issue with flash was caused by SLI. I removed SLI and now it is fine It also looks like problems with javascript are only in chrome… Libreoffice has still the problem, and I will submit bug.
I was wrong… flash is not fine… is better, but some problems still exist. E.g. flash applications after while stuck… it did not happen in previous release.
On 03/17/2011 03:36 PM, mr lukes wrote:
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> it did not happen in previous release.
correct, it didn’t happen in previous released version of Flash…
so, your bug for that goes to Adobe…(i’m using the current flash on
11.3, and it SUCKS!)
on the other hand the previous version of flash would sometimes freeze
the browser, and grab the desktop and squeeze it HARD…
but, in the new version, Flash dies nice and quietly and most often
tells you it did (earlier, you only indication of a Flash problem was
a hung browser/desktop)…but, both the browser and desktop keep right
on going now…it is a great improvement, in that way–but it does
seem to die more often than it used to.
eventually HTML5 will be usable, but for now, unfortunately the
alternative is to not use Flash…
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DenverD
CAVEAT: http://is.gd/bpoMD
[NNTP posted w/openSUSE 11.3, KDE4.5.5, Thunderbird3.1.8, nVidia
173.14.28 3D, Athlon 64 3000+]
“It is far easier to read, understand and follow the instructions than
to undo the problems caused by not.” DD 23 Jan 11
> I have been using opensuse for years, but 11.4 is the most buggy,
> especial for regular (desktop) users.
Well i have just the opposite experience.
I had opensuse 11.3 with the kde release,packman,oracle virtualbox,wine and
nvidia repository enabled.
I checked if all repo’s had support for 11.4, changed all to 11.4 and run
zypper dup.
It downloaded and installed more than 2400 packages without any dependancies
questions and afterwards it ran just fine.
Awesome
There are some packages not yet available for 11.4, like frostwire, but the
old packages for 11.3 remained installed so i’m missing nothing.
The new packagekit update applet also seems to be working just fine,
repecting my preferences for repositories, like packman packages over the
default repositories.
Very impressive!
Never had such a smooth and painless upgrade before
yes, you are right… a lot of things works better in 11.4 - update applet is one of them. But if you have to spend whole day working with web applications, you get frustrated after your browser crashes a few times a day, flash makes problems all the time and web applications (javascript part) slows down. This is why I started this thread. So, maybe it is flash, maybe it is nvidia drivers… at the end everything started after I upgraded to 11.4 ;(
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> yes, you are right… a lot of things works better in 11.4 - update
> applet is one of them. But if you have to spend whole day working with
> web applications, you get frustrated after your browser crashes a few
> times a day, flash makes problems all the time and web applications
> (javascript part) slows down. This is why I started this thread. So,
> maybe it is flash, maybe it is nvidia drivers… at the end everything
> started after I upgraded to 11.4 ;(
>
>
I just reacted to your subject “11.4 x64 only bugs!” wich suggest that is
completely broken :s
11.4 does come with a beta version of firefox.
Have you tried using the stable version of firefox 3.x from the mozilla
legacy repo for 11.4?
Unfortunatelly, the repo doesn’t contain mozilla-xlrunner 1.9.1-17, which is required,
so you have to break the dependeny management right after install - which i don’t like, thus i broke up the downgrade.
To be honest, the developer who put a BETA (read loud: beta) firefox into a STABLE (read louder: stable) release should think abot a change of job immediately, this is soemething you simply cannot do - an absolute no go. Beta in stable … if there is no stable, accepted, but this …?
I have flash issues from the first firefox start, too (on youtube). Java is changed to sun’s version (before first firefox start i changed, i knew the issues with openjdk already).
I’m also running nvidia drivers - a look at the GL screensaver during updating (first 11.4 run) told me, that the x.org alternative is still unacceptable (i’m nearly missing the xfree times)
But not all is bad with 11.4. I’m using suse for … ~14 years now, remebering the times of kernel patching (for acpi - dsdt) and kernel compile (e.g. for iomega zip and atheros madwifi driver) needs. The ‘update’ (this didn’t work in the past, so i did not try and made a new install while keeping /home) went so smooth that i am very positive impressed. Awesome. Even the KDE desktop config made no problems.
Yea that freaked me out too … was really easy to update to the full version from YaST though!
I do have a problem that persists, however. I’m using fglrx drivers for ati video cards and the latest flash and when I go full-screen on any video it crashes that particular tab.
both installed it thru firefox and dropped in my own “square version” into browser-plugins (didn’t change this reported version, so i think firefox installed the right one when I visited youtube, or i didn’t copy the file to the right folder… ).
Is this ‘normal’ behavior for this flash version? I mean, are others having trouble with it or do I just have the wrong version installed?
I am facing network problems continuously.If i changed the IP address we must restart the system to activate new IP.But 11.3 and 11.2 doesn’t have this problem.
Akonadi server is also facing lot of problems.Kmail is unable to start.
It also looks like problems with javascript are only in chrome… Libreoffice has still the problem, and I will submit bug.
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