Archive for the ‘GNOME’ Category
May 27th, 2015 by M. Edwin Zakaria
On 7-9 May 2015, Gnu/Linux Bogor (GLIB) in collaboration with the Faculty of Computer Science, University of Indonesia (Fasilkom UI) organized GNOME.Asia Summit 2015 at the Hall of the University of Indonesia, Depok. GNOME.Asia Summit 2015 is the eighth edition of the conference. According to the local committee this event attracted more than 322, users, developers, business professionals, media, students and government officials, including 48 speakers from all over the world. (http://2015.gnome.asia)
Many thanks to openSUSE/SUSE who willing to become one of the sponsor for this event. I organized some friends from Indonesia openSUSE community to make an openSUSE booth. We prepare several PC and RasPi for some demo and displaying openSUSE 13.2. I really appreciate the help from Andi Sugandi, Yan Arief Purwanto, and Adnan Kurniawan for their time in this event. Joey Li from SUSE Taiwan, Max Huang from Taiwan openSUSE community and Bin Li from China openSUSE community, also came and joint us on the event.
During 2 days (May 8-9) of the event our booth always full of visitor. They asked many questions regarding openSUSE and we tried to answer it directly as we can. We distributed around 200 DVD (openSUSE 13.2 x86_64) and stickers. We also make a short quiz/questionnaire and the top 30 people with highest answer will get a nice looking t-shirt on the 2nd day 🙂
On the 2nd day me and Joey Li were also give talk. My presentation is “Linux for Basic Education, Is it Feasible?”, while Joey Li is talking about “Signature Verification of Hibernate Snapshot”
Thanks to wonderful people of openSUSE and GNOME, and finally some happy face with openSUSE t-shirt!
More photos can be seen on GNOME.Asia 2015 Flickr Group
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April 8th, 2015 by Sebastian Siebert
AMD has released the new AMD Catalyst 15.3 Beta. They have not yet released a public beta driver for all other distributions. It is currently available for Ubuntu. *sigh* So, it is a bit hard work to implement this in the makerpm-amd-script to replace the latest AMD Catalyst 14.12 with AMD Catalyst 15.3 Beta. So do not confused if the script downloads the AMD Catalyst 14.12. 🙂
Unfortunately there is no release notes from AMD. This update can solve the issue with PowerXpress but I can not really verified this because lack of such hardware.
Another side note I have implemented a workaround in the script to get the driver works with the GNOME Displaymanager + GNOME. It is a little cruel hack but it works for the moment. Thanks to the user that they posted the article in my blog. 😉
For GNOME user with gdm: Execute the following command as root after the installation of the AMD driver and before restart the machine:
sh makerpm-amd-15.3-beta.sh --install-gdm-fix
If you update the AMD driver, so the workaround does not work anymore. It is important that you do not delete the file /amd_xversion and is needed for the workaround.
To revert the changes:
sh makerpm-amd-15.3-beta.sh --uninstall-gdm-fix
Before I forget it: All user from openSUSE Tumbleweed can also install the driver. But remember, Tumbleweed is under heavy development. I can not guarantee that the driver works in the future yet.
Downloads:
Installation guide (English):
http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:AMD_fglrx#Building_the_rpm_yourself
The above named installation guide is only for the stable driver but you can adapt it for the beta driver.
Bruno Friedmann will build the new RPM packages in the fglrx repository. Stay tune!
If you find any issue with the driver. Don’t hesitate to contact me. I am in contact with AMD and can forward your issue to the right place. Feedback are welcome.
A report of your system is very helpful beside your feedback. You can generate it with the script:
su -c 'sh makerpm-amd-15.3-beta.sh -ur'
Have a lot of fun!
Sebastian
openSUSE member / Official AMD Packaging Script Maintainer for openSUSE
German Blog: openSUSE – proprietären Grafik-Treiber AMD Catalyst 15.3 Beta als RPM installieren
Tags: 11.4, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 13.1, 13.2, amd, ATI, driver, Kernel, Linux, openSUSE, radeon, rpm
Posted in Base System, Desktop, GNOME, KDE, Kernel, Packaging, X.org, XFCE | 5 Comments »
February 17th, 2015 by Bruno Friedmann
Again this year the thirteen annual Southern California Linux Expo is in the starting block.
During 3 days you will be able to visit us at our booth (38,39,40).
Yeah 3 booths cause we co-run the KDE and Gnome booth.
The exhibition hall open Friday afternoon at 2pm.
Drew and Peter are working as daemon to get everything ready to spread, Doug have brought also quite numerous goodies there. I will do my best to inform you here or follow my G+ channel
Whatever the way you come, bring your feet there and shake hands.
On Thursday, no one has to miss our full day of openSUSE mini-summit, room Century AB.
There will be interesting talks and also a full green hallway, We’re looking forward SUSE’s team, working together in this promising adventure.
On our side Geeko is ready to cross 9.000 kilometers tomorrow.
Hey cool first time in the famous Airbus A380…
Demo laptop with Tumbleweed and KF5 is also secured.
See you all in Los Angeles
Posted in Distribution, Events, Factory, GNOME, KDE, Marketing, Uncategorized | Comments Off on Lizards, time to pack your stuff for openSUSE miniSummit @Scale 13x
December 13th, 2014 by Bruno Friedmann
Hey Christmas time around! AMD give us a new version of fglrx, and Sebastian Siebert just release his script yesterday night.
So I’ve prepared the new version available for openSUSE 11.4, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 13.1, 13.2 and Tumbleweed.
Sebastian’s script contain a special patch for supporting kernel up to 3.17 and 3.18 version.
I should also share Sebastian’s surprize about the fact that this version didn’t got a beta/rc cycle….
I hope this release will give better results for all of you who own an apu (especially the recent one), and also fix a number of issue with the hybrid chipset intel cpu/amd gpu embedded.
See below how to report issue on Sebastian blog.
It will be the last build for all openSUSE version below 13.1 (except if patches are needed).
In January 12.3 support will definitively end. But I will let the drivers as is so you can still use them in case of.
Installation / update
Please refer to the wiki page SDB:AMD_fgrlx
New packaging schema
The driver is now splitted into different rpm that all need to be installed. Normally the necessary Require field is there and should happen automatically.
My advise is to check if you have them all installed.
for 32 bits
zypper install fglrx_xpic fglrx_core fglrx_graphics fglrx_amdcccle fglrx_opencl
for 64 bits
zypper install fglrx64_xpic fglrx64_core fglrx64_graphics fglrx64_amdcccle fglrx64_opencl
A notice for Tumbleweed users
The new release has now its package correctly named, previously they were called SUSEFACTORY, with the new version the package will contain SUSETUMBLEWEED in their name
Tags: 11.4, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 13.1, amd, ATI, fglrx, Kernel, Tumbleweed, xorg
Posted in Base System, Desktop, Distribution, GNOME, KDE, Kernel, Packaging, X.org, XFCE | 22 Comments »
November 13th, 2014 by Bruno Friedmann
Hey good news, finally, Sebastian Siebert manage to create a compatible drivers for our last release.
Tumbleweed is supported too (perhaps only until it diverge consequently from 13.2).
Kernel 3.18 will be supported too.
For complete original story, refer to the original post.
The driver were published 8 days ago and some brave enough soul test them with success. Especially if you have a pure gpu comibnation.
It seems some people with intel cpu/gpu + amd gpu still have trouble, but that can be linked to the intel driver problems.
The new repository url are :
Tumbleweed
http://geeko.ioda.net/mirror/amd-fglrx/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/
openSUSE_13.2
http://geeko.ioda.net/mirror/amd-fglrx/openSUSE_13.2/
To upgrade any previous version : uninstall fglrx_xpicXXXX and install the whole new rpms
fglrx(64)_*
This special version has been published only for 13.2 and Tumbleweed. We will wait a real updated official drivers to update the others flavors of openSUSE.
Have fun
Tags: 11.4, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 13.1, 13.2, amd, ATI, fglrx, Kernel, Tumbleweed, xorg
Posted in Base System, Desktop, GNOME, KDE, Kernel, X.org | 20 Comments »
October 11th, 2014 by Bruno Friedmann
As of October 11th, a bunch of new rpm for FGLRX has been released for openSUSE 11.4 to 13.1 including Tumbleweed.
a special patch has been added for supporting up to kernel 3.17
Installation / update
Please refer to the wiki page SDB:AMD_fgrlx_legacy
Notice radeon HD5xxx or above only
This release concern only owners of radeon HD5xxx or above.
For older gpu, the fglrx-legacy is still 13.1, and thus didn’t work with openSUSE 12.3 or above.
SDB:AMD_fgrlx_legacy
Beware of that, and prefer the free open-source radeon driver which came out of the box from your openSUSE distribution.
For 12.3 and especially 13.1 the free radeon often offer a better experience than the old fglrx-legacy, especially for HD2xxx-HD4xxx range.
openSUSE Factory / 13.2
Dear fellow, unfortunately an still open bug at AMD is not yet resolved to make FGLRX working under newer xorg version.
There’s also a re-organization of how xorg files will be placed in the file system. Once both of them will be fixed Sebastian will produce a newer script.
If those appear soon we perhaps will see rpm fglrx for 13.2.
Release note about 14.9
AMD Full release note
New Features:
The following section provides a summary of new features in this driver version.
AMD Radeon™ R9 285
Ubuntu 14.04 support
RHEL 7.0 support
Install improvements
Package and distribution generation options; recommend options set by default
Help user install generated distribution package once created
Pop-up messages to help guide users through the install process
Identifying and installation of pre-requisites
Resolved Issues:
This section provides information on resolved known issues in this release of the AMD Catalyst Linux Software Suite.
Witcher 2 random lock-up seen when launching the application
Screen corruption when connecting an external monitor to some PowerXpress AMD GPU + Intel CPU platforms
Intermittent X crash when the user does a rotation with Tear Free Desktop enabled
Failure on exit of OpenGL programs
Error message being displayed when a user does run clinfo in console mode
Blank screen when hot plugging an HDMI monitor from a MST hub
System hang after resume from S3/S4 in High Performance mode on PowerXpress AMD GPU + Intel CPU platforms
Corruption or artifacting on the bottom right corner of the screen before booting into login UI during restart
Occasional segmentation fault when running ETQW
xscreensavers test failing with multi-GPU Crossfire™ configurations
Motion Builder severe flickering while toggling full screen
Intermittent crashing and corruption observed while running X-Plane
Some piglit and Khronos OpenGL conformance test failures
Displays occasionally going black when startx is run on Ubuntu 14.04 after switching to integrated GPU on PowerXpress AMD GPU + Intel Haswell CPU system platforms
A connected external display getting disabled when unplugging AC power from laptop platforms
An auto log out when double clicking the picture under desktop server times on PowerXpress AMD GPU + Intel CPU platforms
Known Issues:
The following section provides a summary of open issues that may be experienced with the AMD Catalyst Linux Software Suite.
[404829]: Horizontal flashing lines on second screen in a clone mode with V-Sync on using AMD Mobility Graphics with Switchable Intel Graphics
[404508]: Display takes a long time to redraw the screen after an S4 cycle
This Catalyst fglrx version support openSUSE version from 11.4 to 13.1 plus Tumbleweed (thus covering kernel from 3.11 to 3.17 series).
A special thanks to Sebastian Siebert for his effort on making this driver working under openSUSE and latest kernel.
(more…)
Tags: 11.4, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 13.1, amd, ATI, fglrx, Kernel, Tumbleweed, xorg
Posted in Base System, Desktop, Distribution, GNOME, KDE, Kernel, X.org | Comments Off on Proprietary AMD/ATI Catalyst fglrx 14.9 (14.301.1001-1) rpm released
June 16th, 2014 by Jigish Gohil
GNOME 3.12 classic running on openSUSE 13.1
Just in case gnome does not open in the classic mode after selecting it as session from display manager, then edit /usr/share/applications/gnome-shell-classic.desktop and change the Exec line to read Exec=/usr/bin/gnome-shell --mode=classic
You can also switch to classic mode from within the running gnome session by doing Alt+F2 > gnome-shell -r --mode=classic
Posted in Desktop, GNOME | Comments Off on GNOME 3.12 classic on openSUSE 13.1
