I installed Suse 9.3 (NOT upgrade!) a week ago. It runs pretty good, but with some problems that i would like to identify as bugs or mines.

1.- I own a Clie PEG-TJ27 that worked very good with 9.2, but now i can't synchronize it. Above 50% of the process the system hangs up, and just the music and mouse keep working (keyboard doesn't respond). Restarting the computer is the only way to return to Linux, just like Windows!!!

2.- I have a dvd rom and a cd recorder. During the installation of Suse i used both drives, but now it recognizes only the recorder.

3.- When trying to open some .ppt files, Open Office hangs up. I think it's because of the beta version.

4.- Special characters in filenames ("á") are changed to squares. I'm able to manually correct them and then it recognizes the characters ok, but when you have a cd with hyperlinks you can't do that... I had the same problem with Suse 9.2. I think that didn't happen with Mandrake (i used it before Suse)

Other little problems i forgot to post:

5.- I can receive files with Kopete, but no send them

6.- If i choose to print with a color cartridge, it doesn't use the black ink... it mixes the colour inks to get black!!

7.- I can't hear any sound from macromedia flashes. And about this: does anyone know how to open .exe flash files? Is wine the only way?

So what does /etc/fstab look like? my guess is that there is only a entry for your recorder.

Well for #7, .exe files arent recognized by the OS as being executable. You either have to have it set as executable for its file permissions and try it or it wont work. Most likely it wont work like that because if its an .exe it is compiled to run under a windows filesystem. I would suggest running it under wine and see how it works. Depending on what that .exe depends on, you may run into issues when you first give it a shot.

As far as your sound issue, check /opt/kde3/bin "startkde" file and see if you have "+knotify" in there or not, if not youll need to fix it.

This was the fix for changing Suse 9.2 and upgrading to KDE 3.4 so maybe this still exists in Suse 9.3?

go to /opt/kde3/bin as root and edit "startkde" (kwrite should work fine)

find this line

LD_BIND_NOW=true kdeinit +kcminit

Now change it to look like this:

LD_BIND_NOW=true
kdeinit +kcminit +knotify

(yes now its 2 lines)

restart your computer and your sound notifications should be back. If so,I would test your flash media.

Let me know how it comes out.

All right, here it is

/dev/hda2 / reiserfs acl,user_xattr 1 1
/dev/hdb3 /home ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/hda1 /windows/C ntfs ro,users,gid=users,umask=0002,nls=utf8 0 0
/dev/hdb2 /windows/D vfat users,gid=users,umask=0002,utf8=true 0 0
/dev/hdb1 swap swap pri=42 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs noauto 0 0
/dev/cdrecorder /media/cdrecorder subfs noauto,fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=utf8 0 0
/dev/dvd /media/dvd subfs noauto,fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=utf8 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy subfs noauto,fs=floppyfss,procuid,nodev,nosuid,sync 0 0


I don't see anything wrong, do you?

I found that sound worked if amarok wasn't open first. I read somewhere this could happen. But after closing it, the sound didn't come back. I made what you sayd and that made the trick. So, if amarok is closed, avaerything sounds fine (i think this is valid for other programs like XMMS or Juk)

Thanks a lot

I was wrong. That happened with Mandrake too.

About this point i found the solution: you need to open the TCP port 6891