now, it is almost a year since i have installed opensuse for the first time in my linux experience. i am using linux since october 2010 (ubuntu and fedora). since i have wanted to try KDE i said to myself: go for opensuse.
but along the way, i noticed some glitches and i want to make a list of them, i hope my memory will help me.
first of all, i put a conly on my desktop, i just copied the .conkyrc from ubuntu and notice that, on KDE, the background is not transparent.
apper gave me about 30 MB of update almost everyday, some xine, gstreamer, vlc, etc. rebuilds.
i remember once, the power management failed to work just out of the blue and the CPU got lock to a max freq, about 1.9 Ghz. the situation was solved by logout-login
i have noticed that after the screen turns off, the screens flickers twice, after one minute and after another one minute.
two or three times, the screen have staid on. the problem was also solved by login-logout
i am using the laptop as a hotspot to share the CDMA connection to my tablet. i have used hostapd and dnsmasq. but oneday, just as that, the hotspot just refuses to work and it refuses to work from that time. luckly for me, i found a workaround by setting up a sharing internet connection from the network manager.
i tried to setup apper to “never” check for updates but i found out that there is a bug that prevent me to do that, what a shame! as a workaroud i just did “zypper remove PackageKit” as i have red on opensuse docs.
just today, when i inserted the SDcard from my camera to the laptop, to my surprise, it did not recognized it anymore. the solved was also logout-login.
other time, the mouse cursor on the screen consisted not of a arrow but a vertical 3 cm dashed line. of course, the logout-login solved the issue.
that is all i can recall for the moment but i promise to come back if i will remember something else or encounter other small issues.
PS. i am using a 2008 dell inspiron laptop, full AMD. but to my surprise, it works as in the first day.