Posts Tagged ‘12.1’
January 27th, 2012 by Bruno Friedmann
AMD/ATI Catalyst 12.1 / fglrx 8.930 rpm are available
Sorry I missed in December the annoucement release for the 8.920, but from what I’ve seen. zypper up do the job for you 
Quick Résumé about 12.1
AMD rename their installer, So Sebastian did the same for his script.
I will just copy/google translate/paste here the comment made by Sebastian Siebert on his blog :
With this version AMD Catalyst Gnome 3.2 issues (flickering and screen cracks) are finally resolved.
According to AMD, the notebook with the PowerXpress technology (Intel-/AMD-Grafikkarte – discrete GPU) should work again.
I would be grateful if someone could test this functionality for me and give me feedback. Thank you.
See more at Sebastian’s blog. Don’t be shy, you can leave there the result of test in english too 
See below what to do in case of troubles.
The rpms version 8.930 are available from Friday January 27th
My advise is to firstly remove any existing version with zypper rm, then just zypper in the new version, even if 8.930 are the first version I’ve seen making its upgrade correctly.
As usual, I let the last 2 previous versions in the repository, just in case you need it.
Catalyst 8.930 fglrx 12.1 in action
Tested on a fresh 12.1 + updates with a stock kde 4.7.2
Factory rpms are not available actually, I’ve not be able to build a new building machine for it.
Anyways, factory and 12.2 should keep their effort on debuging and testing widely the free radeon driver.
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Tags: 11.3, 11.4, 12.1, amd, ATI, fglrx, Kernel, xorg
Posted in GNOME, KDE, Kernel, X.org | No Comments »
December 22nd, 2011 by Jigish Gohil
openSUSE Education team is proud to present another edition of openSUSE-Edu Li-f-e (Linux for Education) based on openSUSE 12.1. Li-f-e comes loaded with everything that students, parents, teachers and system admins of educational institutions may need.
more screenshots…
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Tags: 12.1, Education, li-f-e, LTSP, openSUSE
Posted in Apache, Derivative, Desktop, Distribution, Education, GNOME, KDE, Programming, Samba, Server, Virtualization | No Comments »
November 12th, 2011 by Bruno Friedmann
As you all knows, our great party on Second life, celebrating openSUSE 12.1 Gold master release is starting in 5 minutes on Second Life.
Be there : rendez-vous at http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/ama%20gi/139/50/21
Just copy & paste the url, for a direct teleportation in our Geeko Place, once you are in SL
Tags: 12.1, party, Second Life
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October 3rd, 2011 by Bruno Friedmann
You get an invitation!
Geeko place on SecondLife
Ladies & Gentlemen, months after the first virtual party [1][2][3] organized for 11.4 launch,
Françoise (aka Morgane Marquis) and myself (tigerfoot) organize 3 new parties on SecondLife [4] to welcome and fest our next release openSUSE 12.1, coming around the 11.11.11.
- Three virtual great Saturday: October 22th, November 12th and December 10th.
- From 6 to 8am Australian DJ Ariella is back again.
- From 9 to 11am (SL time : utc-9) we will have the pleasure to listen American DJ Esquivel.
You should take this opportunity to try Second Life, creating an avatar, coming to dance and drinking some beers with us at Geekos Place.
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Tags: 12.1, party, secondlife
Posted in Ambassadors, Distribution, Events, lizards.openSUSE.org, Marketing | Comments Off
October 2nd, 2011 by Bruno Friedmann
A new version of amd/ati Catalyst 11.9 / fglrx 8.892 is available
I’ve rebuild and published the new rpms on October 1st
fglrx 8.892 Catalyst 11.9 in action
- 11.9 Quick review :
- There’s no full changelog for Linux, but Catalyst 11.9 installer (pdf). You can always look for supported chipset at 11.9 Release Notes
- Get the cheat-sheet 11.9 version
- Kernel supported up to 3.1x version
- Removed support of openSUSE 11.2, if you are still using it with Evergreen project, the repository still exist with older version
- Tested and working on stock 11.4 and kde 4.7.1
- Check that kernel module build correctly under factory
Sebastian Siebert (freespacer) : 11.9 article (German)
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Tags: 11.3, 11.4, 12.1, amd, ATI, Factory, fglrx
Posted in Base System, X.org | 3 Comments »
August 20th, 2011 by Bruno Friedmann
A new version of amd/ati Catalyst 11.8 / fglrx 8.881 is available
I’ve rebuild and published the new rpms today
Catalyst 11.8 - fglrx-8.881 in action
- 11.8 Quick review :
- There’s no full changelog for Linux, but Catalyst 11.8 installer (pdf). You can always look for supported chipset at 11.8 Release Notes
- Get the cheat-sheet 11.8 version
- Kernel supported up to 3.0x version
- Removed support of openSUSE 11.2, if you are still using it with Evergreen project, the repository still exist with older version
- Tested and working on stock 11.4 kde 4.6.0
- Tested and working on live usb stick 11.4 Gnome3 (GNOME_3.i686-1.3.0-Build1.3.iso + updates)
Contributing back
I’m refering about my previous post, and invite you to help back contributing to
Sebastian Siebert (freespacer) : 11.8 article (German)
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Tags: 11.3, 11.4, 12.1, amd, ATI, Factory, fglrx
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June 17th, 2011 by Bruno Friedmann
New version of catalyst 11.6 / fglrx 8.861 available
Please refer to my previous article where all the installation procedure is explained.
- Quick résumé :
- There’s no full changelog about them, but Catalyst 11.6 installer (pdf)
- Get the cheat-sheet 11.6 version
- Kernel supported up to 3.0x version
- Should be the latest version supporting 11.2
- Wrong (to my point of view) create an xorg.conf file which is unneeded if you work with /etc/xorg.conf.d/50-device.conf and have driver "fglrx" inside
Warning
Some instabilities could happen. In case of crash like no keyboard, mouse, and blackscreen on reboot. Try to shutdown properly your computer with the shutdown poweroff button (or remote ssh). On reboot, just add 3 at the end of grub line to restart in console mode.
Then with yast or zypper you can always remove the actual version and try the previous version available in the repos.
All credits to Sebastian Siebert (freespacer) : 11.6 article (German)
What about tumbleweed, factory?
Users have reported that version 8.861 of catalyst 11.6 compile correctly under Tumbleweed with 2.6.39 kernel and the driver is ready for kernel 3.0x, so until xorg change too much and then AMD support for the new version, installing the 11.4 version should work
For factory, I’ve build a repository (see previous article) that can be used, and fglrx build.
The new package are called SUSE121 & no more SUSEFACTORY.
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Tags: 11.2, 11.3, 11.4, 12.1, amd, ATI, Factory, fglrx, radeon, x-org
Posted in Base System, Distribution, Factory, Kernel, lizards.openSUSE.org, openSUSE 11.2, X.org | 10 Comments »
May 5th, 2011 by Nelson Marques
It was brought to my attention through I article (german) the existence of gpick, an advanced and high featured color picker. I’ve taken a quick look at it to make it available for openSUSE as it seems an interesting tool for artists and web designers (maybe GTK3+ themers) and others.
To build this package a few files are generated with the Lemon Parser Generator which isn’t really available. I’m contacting upstream regarding the possibility of including the generated files in the tarball, or eventually if that fails, I’ll probably need to include lemon.c, hand compile it and hack scons build to use the local binary to generate those files.
The screenshots have a tiny glitch on an icon, this is mainly because I haven’t rebuilt the icon cache when I took them. I look forward to explore the possibility of having such a great tool available for openSUSE 12.1.
UPDATE: I’ve made available a small test package on home:ketheriel:gpick (needs some work before submitting to factory) which should be working. Any testing/feedback will be most welcomed. Also enabled builds for Fedora 14, since I believe this package isn’t available for Fedora.
Tags: 11.4, 12.1, advanced, color, Distribution, GNOME, gnome3, gpick, GTK+, Linux, news, openSUSE, picker
Posted in Artwork, Desktop, Distribution, GNOME, Packaging | Comments Off
April 30th, 2011 by Nelson Marques
With the release of GNOME3 I would assume that people are interested in seeing how YaST2 (suggestion: rename it to YaST3 !!) is going to take form with GTK3. Of course this means eventually writing another application in GTK3, hopefully different from the old gnome-control-panel ‘style’ which was actually pretty confusion from the user point of view as it was far too close to gnome-control-center, thus confusing new comers.
My suggestion (unaware if it’s possible or not) was probably to explore GNOME3 features to serve YaST integrated already with GNOME3. This could be an interesting approach as it would offer integration and some advantages:
* Better integration with GNOME3 without having to write(/maintain another application;
* Take advantage of YaST2 modular structure;
* Present YaST in a prime space in GNOME3, thus offering a openSUSE differentiation point;
* No conflicts with possible KDE existing front-ends for YaST2;
* Improve users experience.
My proposal would be something like (maybe to be served as an extension for gnome-shell). Please neglect my ‘lame’ photo manipulation skills:
Mockup: YaST2 on GNOME3
Tags: 11.4, 12.1, administration, GNOME, gnome-shell, KDE, mockup, openSUSE, YaST, YaST2
Posted in Accessibility, Artwork, Desktop, Distribution, Factory, GNOME, Systems Management, YaST | 8 Comments »
