Hi!
Since one click install didn’t quite pull it off, does the live CD install work? Any of you guys have any experience? Thank you!
Personally I have found the Oneclick much better. As for me the live cd was a bit of a non-starter.
YMMV though, as it will for others.
Thank you very much for your response 
I used one from this repo: Index of /repositories/GNOME:/Medias/images/iso recently, which did a perfect job.
yep ,it worked for me just fine
however i found the whole experience buggy and strange so i would rather step back to gnome 2 with openSUSE 11.4 and when openSUSE 12 be released i will move to it.
I tried upgrading to GNOME 3 a while back by adding the repo and using zypper, and while it worked fine, it turned out that the proprietary AMD graphics driver didn’t play very nicely with the Shell. Since then I’ve reverted back to GNOME 2, and I’m praying that AMD will fix their driver before GNOME 3 hits Tumbleweed.
Is anyone here using GNOME 3 regularly yet?
GNOME 3 hit Tumbleweed months ago. Thing is that, like chromium for example, it’s in a separate repo: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/openSUSE:/Tumbleweed:/GNOME/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/
I added it, with GNOME and KDE already installed, selected the above repo, and did “Switch system packages…”. Works like a charm, except that on KDE I have to use nm-applet, since the Networkmanager versions for GNOME 3 and KDE do not match. Apart from that, perfect, stable, fast.
On Fri, 26 Aug 2011 18:06:02 +0000, kog13 wrote:
> Is anyone here using GNOME 3 regularly yet?
I’ve got it running on my laptop and use it exclusively there. The
desktop still has GNOME2 on it, but I’ve been thinking about switching
that as well.
Jim
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By “hit Tumbleweed” I mean when it goes into the mainstream repo. Thanks for pointing that out, though, I might switch to that once AMD gets their act together.
On Fri, 26 Aug 2011 23:26:02 +0000, kog13 wrote:
> Knurpht;2378495 Wrote:
>> GNOME 3 hit Tumbleweed months ago. Thing is that, like chromium for
>> example, it’s in a separate repo.
>
> By “hit Tumbleweed” I mean when it goes into the mainstream repo. Thanks
> for pointing that out, though, I might switch to that once AMD gets
> their act together.
Which video controller do you have in your system? I ask because I’m
using the x300 in my Dell laptop, and the radeon driver works fine with
GNOME3 for this usage. Since the x300 is a lower-end ATI card, if you
can use the radeon driver, you might try it and see how it works for you.
Jim
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I have a Radeon HD 6850, so it’s pretty new. Last time I tried it, the open-source driver didn’t work, so I’m sticking with the proprietary one. Fortunately, I believe the GNOME Shell bug has been fixed, I just need to wait for the version with the fix to finish getting through AMD’s release process.
On Mon, 29 Aug 2011 18:06:02 +0000, kog13 wrote:
> I have a Radeon HD 6850, so it’s pretty new. Last time I tried it, the
> open-source driver didn’t work, so I’m sticking with the proprietary
> one. Fortunately, I believe the GNOME Shell bug has been fixed, I just
> need to wait for the version with the fix to finish getting through
> AMD’s release process.
That sounds like good news. I wonder if those that the fglrx driver (is
that the one you’re using?) just aren’t supported by the OSS driver
(sounds like that’s the case here).
Jim
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I have gotten Gnome 3 (shell) to work in 11.4 by using the One-click, following the direction on the same page and using the terminal, and also by downloading and using the ISO from gnome.org… all worked perfectly well for me 
Neil