New To Suse, Questions Regarding Resoution and Apt

jlacroix · 05-24-2004, 07:01 AM

Hi all I just installed Suse 9.1 and I am trying to get some things to work.

First of all, I installed APT. When I use apt-get, after doing apt-get update, it can't seem to find any program, at all. I try apt-get install zsnes, mplayer, ogle, nothing can be found. What am I doing wrong? All the above worked in Fedora.

Secondly, I need to get ZSNES to work very badly, and I need all the dependencies. It says I am missing SDL when I am installing from source. But I believe SDL is already installed. Is there an RPM I can install just to be done with it?

Another thing bothering me, my resolution is 1024x768. It looks like 800x600. The windows and icons are huge, even when I shrink them down, it doesn't look right. The window title bars are very large, so large I can usually only accurately look at one window at a time. Furthermore, I have it set to 24bit true color, however I am able to get 32 bit true color in Windows, why can't I get that in Linux? Is there a way to correct the size of the windows?

Is there a way I can tweak things like I could in Windows, for example, is there an equivelant MSCONFIG for Linux? Maybe strip it down a little? Any help is appreciated. Thanks!

3mp3r0r · 05-24-2004, 11:36 AM

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Originally posted by jlacroix
Hi all I just installed Suse 9.1 and I am trying to get some things to work.

First of all, I installed APT. When I use apt-get, after doing apt-get update, it can't seem to find any program, at all. I try apt-get install zsnes, mplayer, ogle, nothing can be found. What am I doing wrong? All the above worked in Fedora.[/i]

Try adding more repositories to your sources.list

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{b}Another thing bothering me, my resolution is 1024x768. It looks like 800x600. The windows and icons are huge, even when I shrink them down, it doesn't look right. The window title bars are very large, so large I can usually only accurately look at one window at a time. Furthermore, I have it set to 24bit true color, however I am able to get 32 bit true color in Windows, why can't I get that in Linux? Is there a way to correct the size of the windows?[B]

Even I have the same problem

can anyone help?

Franklin · 05-24-2004, 06:59 PM

Have you used sax2 to accurately id your vid card and monitor?

What vid card

Apt I can't help you with.

ZSNES: http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/suse/8....6-80.i586.html

This was removed from SuSE after 8.1
The above link may help you out. Dependency hell. Most likely why it was removed.
It may give you a place to start.

http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-l...-Jul/0507.html

The above guy installed 8.1 on 8.2 with out issue. 9.0 maybe another story

HTH

rshaw · 05-24-2004, 07:46 PM

here's the full list, copy and paste into /etc/apt/source.list (as root)

rpm ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/apt SuSE/9.1-i386 kernel-of-the-day update-prpm update kde gnome2 xfree86 xorg mozilla suser-rbos suser-gbv suser-tcousin suser-scorot funktronics packman packman-i686 wine suse-people suse-projects kde3-stable security-prpm security