Hi All
RC1 is streaming to the mirrors…
[opensuse-factory] Status: distribution](http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-factory/2011-02/msg00371.html)
Oh wow ! Thanks for the info malcolmlewis, I am eager to test it. 
By the way, do you have a link ?
Hi
I’m guessing it will appear once all the mirrors have synced;
openSUSE Download Mirrors - Factory
Looks like the mirrors have synced, because RC 1 is available for download:
Still have the radeon KMS flicker with my “M52” ATI Radeon mobility X1300.
I really hope this gets fixed on time before GoldMaster, otherwise I’ll need to skip the 11.4 release. Or run it with nomoedset and live with the loss of 3D wich is not an option.
On 02/10/2011 10:36 AM, verstraete kenny wrote:
>
> Still have the radeon KMS flicker with my “M52” ATI Radeon mobility
> X1300.
> I really hope this gets fixed on time before GoldMaster, otherwise I’ll
> need to skip the 11.4 release. Or run it with nomoedset and live with
> the loss of 3D wich is not an option.
Is there a bugzilla report on this? If not, it will never get fixed.
Downloading it now off this mirror:
Index of /opensuse/distribution/11.4-RC1
Already downloaded and run the KDE liveCD. Hardware detection ok. Graphics ok. Sound ok. Network ok. Forum posting ok. Card games failed to work. A few irritating KDE app crashes (I think synaptic touchpad related). Worth installing to HD here, though.
I downloaded and installed LXDE from the 11.4 RC1 32-bit DVD (build 1056) on my sandbox PC (32-bit athlon-1100 w/1GB RAM and nVidia FX5200 AGP graphic card). Played a bit with Nouveau driver, and then installed proprietary nvidia driver.
Actually sound give me the biggest headache to setup. I’m still not happy with the sound configuration, although I have it functioning. This PC is a bit complex as it has 2 sound devices, … one sound device on the motherboard and a PCI sound card (old sound blaster compatible). After a silly amount of time (for me) in playing around (probably 10 minutes) I finally got sound working on my sound card of choice using ‘oss’ output video mode in alsa, xine and vlc. To get sound working in Firefox I ended up installing 2 pulse audio apps: pavucontrol and padevchooser. By tuning in pavucontrol (pulse audo volume control) I was finally able to find the setting that I needed to get sound working in Firefox.
But thats not satisfactory (for me).
While all my media apps (vlc, xine, mplayer) using oss output mode can play sound at the same time as each other, they won’t play sound at the same time as Firefox playing sound with pulse audio. So I now need to retune these media apps to use pulse. …
So much is changing in audio its hard to stay up to date.
I’m struggling with another cold (headache, cough, mild-fever) which may also have complicted this for me more than it actually is (complex).
Sounds like you had some fun. I did my quick liveCD check through on the ThinkPad with its Intel GM45 graphics and built-in audio. All looked right on My Computer, now with details for all partitions :). Not checked all the bits and pieces (like Mic), but I had to do nothing on configuration of graphics or audio. A lengthy boot though.
Got a shock with Kmix and its three tabs with only one slider per tab. Reminded me of alsamixer on Gnome with its single column, and then I twigged it must be PulseAudio :D. Gstreamer is above xine in the phonon list. The KDE test sounds were bright and clear in the headphones, and the audio devices looked ok in phonon tab. Yep, the audio it is a-changin’.
Sorry to hear of your cold/flu, hope it clears up soon.
I can’t seem to download it from the mirrors! The DVD stops at 360mb - can someone please point me to a mirror that has a full copy of it.
I’d like to download it before 5pm today.
I am currently downloading the 32-bit and 64-bit DVD’s off this mirror:
Index of /opensuse/distribution/11.4-RC1
64-bit has currently downloaded 3.7 GB.
32-bit has currently downloaded 3.6 GB.
I had no issue downloading the x64 DVD (Argonne National Lab in Batavia, IL) - I’m running from the result of that burned ISO. (ANL is my usual mirror due to their bandwidth to me, despite them being in the grain belt and me in the Bureaucrat Belt; AKA Washington, DC’s suburbs.) However, kernel.org is my alternate.
I usually use the AARNet mirror based in Brisbane, Australia:
Index of http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/opensuse/opensuse/distribution/ - Updated daily
This mirror usually gives me great speeds. However they don’t have RC1 yet hence downloading off kernel.org.
Sorry to hear about your Bold Cold, oldcpu.
Amusingly, despite also having multiple audio devices (AMD Manhattan HDMI-out, which is unused, and my X-Fi XtremeGamer, which I do use) I had no audio issues in any application (GNOME 3 Preview). Sound in Firefox works just fine (including audio in Flash), requiring Zero Fiddling.
As I posted in another thread, DRI/DRI2 is present/accounted for with RC1 by default as long as you have it installed (AMD HD5450, AKA Cedar Pro - Mobility HD5450 in desktop PCIe clothes). As opposed to M5 and M6 (where I had to upgrade to both the Factory X and a custom kernel), I did no fiddling. DRI/DRI2 just works. GNOME-Shell works as well (because of that settings bug, I use GNOME-Shell (not standard GNOME) as my default desktop for this stage of testing). Yes; the desktop effects (including compiz) work. I actually have to get used to having a usable gussied-up desktop. I’ve also installed virtualbox for some extended VM testing this weekend.
I installed 11.4 RC1 KDE4 on my 32-bit athlon. Similar sound issues and sound does not work at all in any multimedia player (test sounds do work). Its a possible permissios problem. But I don’t feel well enough to debug, so for now I’ll leave it with non-functioning sound. Maybe later this weekend if I can shake this headache/fever I’ll take a look at it.
Its kind of ironic that I am the only one encountering annoying sound issues.