Howdy folks:
For the longest time I was a die-hard Suse fan, buying pretty much every distribution they released up to and including 9.2. Then about six, or seven years ago I moved over to Mac when they came out with OS X and I haven’t used any Linux since then. Finally, however, I started to grow tired of Apple’s BS (you had to know that would happen) and decided it was time to return to my old stomping grounds. I went out and purchased a Sony Avio Fit 15E (SVF15213CDB) with Windows8 - I have no idea what Microsoft was thinking - and downloaded openSUSE 12.3. Wow… things have really improved since 9.2, I am truly very impressed. Now, I don’t have sound, or my WiFi working yet and I still haven’t figured out how to disable
the touchpad, but everything else on the Sony laptop is working just fine and I’m sure I’ll get the rest sorted out shortly. After being away from SUSE for so long, it sure feels good to be home again.
xenrobia wrote:
>
> Howdy folks:
> For the longest time I was a die-hard Suse fan, buying pretty much
> every distribution they released up to and including 9.2. Then about
> six, or seven years ago I moved over to Mac when they came out with OS X
> and I haven’t used any Linux since then. Finally, however, I started to
> grow tired of Apple’s BS (you had to know that would happen) and decided
> it was time to return to my old stomping grounds. I went out and
> purchased a Sony Avio Fit 15E (SVF15213CDB) with Windows8 - I have no
> idea what Microsoft was thinking - and downloaded openSUSE 12.3. Wow…
> things have really improved since 9.2, I am truly very impressed. Now, I
> don’t have sound, or my WiFi working yet and I still haven’t figured out
> how to disable
> the touchpad, but everything else on the Sony laptop is working just
> fine and I’m sure I’ll get the rest sorted out shortly. After being away
> from SUSE for so long, it sure feels good to be home again.
>
> Later Rob.
>
>
welcome back.
On 07/29/2013 08:26 PM, xenrobia wrote:
> it sure feels good to be home again.
welcome back…you left SuSE about the time i joined (from RH/Fedora
or something)…
so, why not go ahead and put all three of your current problems into
their own thread (one problem per thread please) in the right forum
and with a descriptive subject and see if you can get some helpful
help…(be sure to mention which desktop environment you are using,
as well as oS version. . .)
Thanks for the Welcome Back guys/gals, I appreciate it.
DenverD:
I wasn’t really stating a problem, or asking for help with the hardware issues. I figure I’ll have to search out the appropriate drivers and install them; which will be a good start in getting
my Linux legs (sorta like sea legs) back - it’s been seven years so I’m a little rusty, well a lot rusty actually.
Now I know I should make an entry into the hardware database for the Sony SVF15213CDB and I have actually tried, but the new entry system isn’t readily apparent so I’ll have to do a little research into that as well. An interest thing about this Sony is that it comes with an NFC (Near Field Communications) interface, like many of the newer cell phones, although I doubt I’ll find a driver for that anytime soon since it is such an uncommon feature. I never managed to get the NFC functioning properly under Windows8, but then my biggest concern at the time was getting Windows8 off the system and openSUSE on the system. If you are wondering why I didn’t create a dual boot SUSE/Windows8 system, it’s simply that Window8 on a non-touchscreen system is not a very pleasant experience IMHO.
Welcome back. Actually you might be surprised by the NFC.
I don’t own any hardware supporting this but since it is so common in phones now, Android is such a common phone OS, and even Sony is producing phones running Android I guess there is a chance the drivers are already there in the kernel. But this is just a guess on my side.
wrt WIFI,there is a bug in openSUSE-12.3 where the packagers forgot to enable the networking service by default. Try in a terminal sending this command with root permissions
systemctl start network.service
wrt sound, openSUSE-12.3 now uses something called pulse audio. That has an assortment of new features and new and different controls. I like to use pulse audio volume control to assist in the control my PC’s sound. I have a blog entry about it here: https://forums.opensuse.org/blogs/oldcpu/pulseaudio-basics-opensuse-pavucontrol-96/
