Hello there, folks. I’m relatively new to opensuse, though familiar to Linux. What I want to do is a minimal installation with no DE, but only WM (Icewm, Openbox, fluxbox). My hardware is hp dv6-1359wm laptop. I know ‘tsgoin’ to be kinda tricky for me, but for the sake of holy **** I’m ready. So far I did a minimal server selection installation with runlevel 3. Got my wireless configured and IceWM installed and executed with startx.
But many things are still missing. Microphone doesn’t work, volume cannot be controlled via volume touchpad.
Assuming WM depends on X11, I s’ppose X11 should be installed and configured properly, right? Now there’s a patterns-openSUSE-x11 which was not installed with the minimal server selection option. It installs a bunch of X11 apps, and I wonder, whether I need it since I can startx?
Anyways, it would be really great to get help on the matter.
69 views and 0 replies… How sad… I guess that’s the reason why many prefer Ubuntu/Mint. Technically oS maybe better (it is actually), but Ubuntu/Mint has better community support. Way better!!! Much better!!!
IMHO you’ll find many here thinking the opposite, yet I don’t want a debate on this. Another thing is that not many of us run a this peticular setup like yours, and that you’re not very clear in what the problems are. I suggest you describe your problems one by one, accompanied with output.
On 05/20/2011 11:06 AM, rgnr123 wrote:
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> 69 views and 0 replies… How sad.
would you prefer 69 folks writing the only thing i could have said
(which would/will probably make you a little angry):
why do this?
i have NO idea how to build a “minimal openSUSE” if i wanted it skinny i
would pick an already skinny Linux, like Puppy or dam*small or Tiny Core
or Vctor or AntiX or SliTaz or Elive or SOAD…
on the other hand, you said “I know ‘tsgoin’ to be kinda tricky for me,
but for the sake of holy **** I’m ready.” but it looks like you VERY
soon ran all of “I’m ready” and filled up with “others should be READY
to do this, for me”!!
think i’m gon’na do your research for you . . . wrong . . . instead i’d
suggest you buy stronger hardware or seek assistance from of those “Way
better!!! Much better!!!” communities you already know about…
bye.
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[NNTP via openSUSE 11.4 [2.6.37.6-0.5] + KDE 4.6.0 + Thunderbird 3.1.10]
Dual booting with Sluggish Loser7 on Acer Aspire One D255
rgnr123 wrote:
> My hardware is hp dv6-1359wm laptop
I hope this does not sound unfriendly, but you did not do your homework.
Do you really expect others to google the machine and find out the details
about your hardware, your soundcard and so on?
Please post the details, then you will find that people are not only viewing
your post but also answer to it.
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PC: oS 11.3 64 bit | Intel Core2 Quad Q8300@2.50GHz | KDE 4.6.3 | GeForce
9600 GT | 4GB Ram
Eee PC 1201n: oS 11.4 64 bit | Intel Atom 330@1.60GHz | KDE 4.6.0 | nVidia
ION | 3GB Ram
Sounds like you’re looking for ARCH Linux…
-good luck
just wanted to add:
Build a Killer Customized Arch Linux Installation (and Learn All About Linux in the Process)
^^^ fairly decent guide which walks one through a bare bones minimal install (which seems to be what you are looking for)… ARCH was really designed from the ground up to accomplish your specific stated goals…opensuse… not so much
Ok, I’ll start from the beginning. I’m planning to install oS on laptop which is Intel Core2 Duo T6600 4GB DDR2 320GB HDD. Desktop environment is not welcome. Only windows manager. So first of all I chose in the setup very last option “Minimal server selection (text mode)” and changed runlevel to 3, since I’ve no use for a graphical login. Then I uncommented last line in /etc/permissions.local in order to be able to startx. Then I installed icewm. Technically I’ve got what I wanted, but there are bunch of problems such as fonts, no microphone, no touchpad volume control, etc. Some configuration files are missing such as xorg.conf and 90-keytable.conf. There’s a package called patterns-openSUSE-x11 which installs bunch of apps. I wonder, do I have to install it?
On 2011-05-21 20:06, rgnr123 wrote:
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> Ok, I’ll start from the beginning. I’m planning to install oS on laptop
> which is Intel Core2 Duo T6600 4GB DDR2 320GB HDD. Desktop environment
> is not welcome. Only windows manager. So first of all I chose in the
> setup very last option “Minimal server selection (text mode)” and
> changed runlevel to 3, since I’ve no use for a graphical login.
You should have installed the minimal graphical install instead, and when
it were running, change the default runlevel to 3. The way you are doing
it, you will get more problems, YaST had no chance to configure the
graphical setup, which nevertheless you want to use, per what you say later.
And, I fail to see what in your question is specific to 64bit hardware, so
perhaps you should have posted your question in the install-boot-login
subforum.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.2 x86_64 “Emerald” at Telcontar)
So you day I had to switch runlevel after the installation? Why?
And I posted here, cuz my hardware is 64 bit.
On 05/28/2011 03:36 PM, rgnr123 wrote:
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> So you day I had to switch runlevel after the installation? Why?
because it would be much easier to get what you wanted to do a desktop
install (probably LDXE would be fine) and then just use run level
three…the way you did it you have to struggle (as you are) to get it
to work, other way would be easy…
> And I posted here, cuz my hardware is 64 bit.
but the problem is software management, not 64 bit…that is, you would
have had the same problem if it were 32 or 16 bit…
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[NNTP via openSUSE 11.4 [2.6.37.6-0.5] + KDE 4.6.0 + Thunderbird 3.1.10]
Dual booting with Sluggish Loser7 on Acer Aspire One D255
On 2011-05-28 16:44, DenverD wrote:
> On 05/28/2011 03:36 PM, rgnr123 wrote:
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>> So you day I had to switch runlevel after the installation? Why?
>
> because it would be much easier to get what you wanted to do a desktop
> install (probably LDXE would be fine) and then just use run level
> three…the way you did it you have to struggle (as you are) to get it to
> work, other way would be easy…
Just my point.
>> And I posted here, cuz my hardware is 64 bit.
>
> but the problem is software management, not 64 bit…that is, you would
> have had the same problem if it were 32 or 16 bit…
Exactly,
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.2 x86_64 “Emerald” at Telcontar)
Ok, guys, I’ll repost in the appropriate place and thanks for tips:)