openSUSE Education Li-f-e 13.1 x86_64 with UEFI boot support is now here. Create bootable USB stick using dd_rescue, dd or Imagewriter GUI, select UEFI USB at boot device selection and make sure that GRUB2-EFI is selected under Bootloader in final installation summary screen. Select normal GRUB2 for legacy boot(machines without UEFI boot support).
Li-f-e x86_64 is mostly identical to i686 edition, selection of packages and versions will differ a bit.
Get Li-f-e from here : Direct Download | Torrents | Metalinks | md5sum
openSUSE Education community is proud to bring you an early Christmas and New Year’s present: openSUSE Education Li-f-e. It is based on the recently released openSUSE 13.1 with all the official online updates applied.
We have put together a nice set of tools for everyone including teachers, students, parents and IT administrators. It covers quite a lot of territory: from chemistry, mathematics to astronomy and Geography. Whether you are into software development or just someone looking for Linux distribution that comes with everything working out of the box, your search ends here.
Edit: We now also have x86_64 version supporting UEFI boot available for download.
This release concern only owners of radeon HD5xxx or above. And adventurous users who know how to deal with troubles.
The majority could easily wait the final release, expected somewhat later.
This is experimental & BETA sofware, it could fix issues you encountered, but also can eat your kitten. You’ve been warned !
But good reports have been collected around, especially with never 3.10x kernel series.
Admitting you’ve the normal repository named FGLRX, (use zypper lr -d to find the number or name you give it). You have to start by disabling it, so you could fallback to it quickly. Open a root console or add sudo at your convenience and issue the following command:
zypper mr -dR FGLRX
The beta driver is available for 11.4 (evergreen kernel), 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 13.1, Tumbleweed (12.3 based + kernel 3.10) at amd-fglrx-beta
To add another repository in the same console as root issue the following command which will install normally the right repository for your distribution
zypper ar -n FGLRX-BETA -cgf http://geeko.ioda.net/amd-fglrx-beta/openSUSE_`lsb-release -r | awk '{print $2}'` FGLRX-BETA
If you are using Tumbleweed use this one
zypper ar -n FGLRX-BETA -cgf http://geeko.ioda.net/amd-fglrx-beta/openSUSE_Tumbleweed FGLRX-BETA
Now the update/upgrade process
zypper dup -r FGLRX-BETA
Let the system upgrade the package, and try to enjoy the new beta
openSUSE Education Team is proud to present Li-f-e (Linux for Education) 12.3-1, this first release is based on openSUSE 12.3 with all the official updates applied. Li-f-e incorporates latest stable versions of all popular desktop environments such as KDE, Gnome and Cinnamon, it includes wide range of softwares catering to the needs of everyone, selection from openSUSE Education repository, multimedia from the Packman repository, development tools, KIWI-LTSP allowing normal PC or diskless thin clients to network boot from a server running Li-f-e and lot more. To summarize, everything you need to make your computer useful is available right out of the box as soon as Li-f-e is installed on it. (more…)
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 Kernel 3.6, 3.7, 3.8 nor openSUSE 12.3 and xorg 1.13
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.
This Catalyst fglrx version support openSUSE version from 11.4 to 12.3 (new repository) and also Tumbleweed (thus also kernel 3.8x series).
A release note is available on AMD website
Fixed issues
[370253]: Serious Sam 3 - Color of Objects turning into be red when enabling separate shader object
[371937]: Team Fortress 2 - Screen black issue while entering the game screen under cinnamon desktop environment
[371374]: Team Fortress 2 - Screen random flickering and corruptions in Lakeside Map
[354777]: Maya 2012 Benchmark - Benchmark falling out of TIMMO
[372137]: NX8.0 - Severe flickering is observed while playing animation in manufacturing mode
[373561]: Mari crashes at startup on Ubuntu only
[374371]: Severe corruption occurs in Unigine Heaven 4.0 on Saturn XT when running at extremely high settings
[373787]: Softimage fails to refresh properly
[372918]: Maxon - Wrong shading when UBOs are used to store light parameters
Known Bugs
[373836]: Vsync application shows corruption filed
[373772]: Team Fortress 2 – Game could not be loaded in “High Performance GPU” mode
[373909]: Driver install via .deb package will cause OS desktop corruption
[371372]: SCQA - Anti-Aliasing does not work
Sebastian Siebert post about 13.4
If you have any problems with the driver, don’t be afraid to report to Sebastian (German and English bugreports are gladly accepted).
he will try, as far as I am able to reproduce the bug. Together with the necessary system information, he will go directly to the right place at AMD to have the bug fixed in the next driver release.
Thank you very much, Sebastian.
See below what to do in case of troubles.
Or you can also ping him on irc (freespacer)
I read today that Ubuntu-Gnome is now an official flavour of Ubuntu! Great work, you’ve achieved the same level of recognition as KDE has. Establishing Kubuntu, and other flavours of Ubuntu, was a very canny move on Canonical’s part to control and contain dissent within the Ubuntu big tent. The Kum-ba-ya, lets-all-make-a-circle-in-our-vests hype that Ubuntu generated in 2005 was so strong that it sucked in KDE users as well as users of GNOME, then the anointed Ubuntu desktop. Pretty soon they formed an unofficial forum, in Germany (where else) and started talking about a KDE Fork. The answer from Canonical was to throw them Kubuntu, with “infrastructure and support benefits“, hiring the Debian KDE maintainer, and to pour blandishments into the credulous ears of the KDE leadership of that time, who were mighty unsettled by the acquisition of their then-darling distribution by Novell and its earlier Ximian purchase. This sackful of glass beads and liquor was sufficient to prevent ornery KDE users roaming all over the place doing what they liked, and especially not over the border to other distributions, and in doing so increase Ubuntu’s momentum.
Now fast forward to 2013 and we’re seeing the same happen to GNOME. No longer the standard desktop, but still with significant suction among Ubuntu users, GNOME is neatly herded on to the reservation and congratulated on its wise decision. Now look to your Kubuntu colleagues to see how that is going to work out for you down the road. PS: If Mark promises to install GNOME Ubuntu, don’t believe him for a second. He has an office by now full of desktop computers representing official flavours that he never turns on. Sound familiar?
Li-f-e just got better. This update follows the release of openSUSE Edu Li-f-e 12.2 way back in September 2012, is made up of same packages but includes the updates available from official openSUSE and all the additional repositories such as Build Service Education, Packman etc.
Get it from here:Direct Download | Torrents | Metalinks | md5sum
Have a lot of fun…
Your openSUSE Education Team
This release concern only radeon HD2xxx to HD4xxx owners
The published Catalyst fglrx rpm version support openSUSE version from 11.4 to 12.3 (new repository) and also Tumbleweed (thus also kernel 3.8x series).
For testing with the next openSUSE 12.3 just use the new openSUSE_12.3 repo
Sebastian Siebert will publish an article today, and he’s looking for feedback about the patches included to make it working on 12.3, so don’t hesitate to get in touch with him
As I didn’t have a gpu card of this series, I can’t test it before publishing the rpm like for normal fglrx. If someone has a spare hd2xxx or hd4xxx, Could he(she) contact me?
Have fun!
Sorry this article should have been published Saturday, but some trouble (error in a updated module) locked me outside of lizards), Thanks to Matthew to have fix it in the meantime
fglrx 13.1 amd-ccc & fgl_glxgears
This release concern only owners of radeon HD5xxx or above.
For older gpu, the fglrx-legacy is still 12.6, and thus didn’t work with Kernel 3.6, 3.7, 3.8
SDB:AMD_fgrlx_legacy
Beware of that fact, and prefer the free open-source radeon driver which came out of the box from your openSUSE distribution.
This Catalyst fglrx version support openSUSE version from 11.4 to 12.3 (new repository) and also Tumbleweed (thus also kernel 3.8x series).
For testing with the next openSUSE 12.3 just use the new openSUSE_12.3 repo
A release note is available on AMD website
Fixed issues
[368958]: Driver release version is added to GL_VERSION
[367282]: Bblank VGA display after resume from suspend
[367245]: X crash for AMD PowerXpress™ A+I High-Performance mode on Ubuntu 12.10
[366820] Performance of Valve Linux games
[366805]: Segmentation fault when exit QtOpenGL applications such as AMD CodeXL
[366425]: Xserver getting exit upon resume from suspend on RHEL 5.8
[364107]: VariBright not working when change AMD PowerPlay™ settings in AMD Catalust Control Center:LE
[363638]: VariBright doesn’t work after resume from suspend on “Trinity” platform
[350759]: Flickering cursor when run some full-screen OpenGL games with CrossFire enabled
[347895]: OpenGL performance on “Southern Islands” ASICs
[344996]: 16 re-frames doesn’t work for H.264 @Level 5.1
[337240]: Corruption when resize the Konsole window
[304016]: One display goes black after changing from multi-display desktop from single independent
Sebastian Siebert post about 13.1
If you have any problems with the driver, don’t be afraid to report to Sebastian (German and English bugreports are gladly accepted).
he will try, as far as I am able to reproduce the bug. Together with the necessary system information, he will go directly to the right place at AMD to have the bug fixed in the next driver release.
Thank you very much, Sebastian.
See below what to do in case of troubles.
Or you can also ping him on irc (freespacer)
fglrx & 3d effects kde 4.9.5 on openSUSE 12.2
As some of you already know, I have moved my blog to:
Por si no lo sabías, he mudado mi blog a:
My first post comes with lots of green (12.2 beta1 screenshots)
Mi primer artículo tiene un verdor increíble (capturas de pantalla de la versión 12.2 beta1)
🙂
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