openSUSE 11.1
new and old
  • syslog is flooded w/ACPI messages
    Followed steps for fixing on openSUSE 10.2
  • No sound after rebooting after kernel upgrade
    # sudo service alsasound restart
Since the upgrade process couldn't reconcile the variety of third party repositories I was using, I performed a clean installtion of openSUSE 10.3.
Again there were new and old annoyances:
  • syslog is flooded w/ACPI messages
    Will follow steps for fixing on openSUSE 10.2
  • Not really an openSUSE problem, but worthy of mention since non-KDE apps don't respect the KDE date and time settings.
    I added the following to my .profile to get my Mozilla Thunderbird date and time format the way I like it:
    LC_TIME=de_BE.utf8
    export LC_TIME
I was using openSUSE 10.2 after running SuSE 10.1 for some time.
There were new and old annoyances:
  • syslog is flooded w/ACPI messages
    YaST:System:/etc/sysconfig Editor:System:Kernel:INITRD_MODULES
    remove thermal:Finish: run /sbin/mkinitrd
  • GTK apps look ugly as sin
    Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "qtengine",
    # cd /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/engines
    # ln -s /opt/gnome/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/engines/libqtcurve.so ./
    # ln -s /opt/gnome/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/engines/libqtengine.so ./
    # ln -s /opt/gnome/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/engines/libqtpixmap.so ./
    # ln -s /opt/gnome/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/engines/libqtpixmap.la ./
  • The kickstart item to launch Smart (kdesu smart --gui) only shows "--gui" in the kdesu window.
    I pointed the kickstart item to a shell script I called smartgui:
    #!/bin/bash
    kdesu 'smart --gui' &
Current annoyances I am experiencing with SuSE 10.0:
  • automount ignores fstab umask
  • external hard drive recognized on USB but not firewire
    (works on firewire on SuSE 10.0 on laptop)
  • Canon N650U won't work
    Hub wasn't plugged in to AC power! Do'h!
    I moved the scanner to a root hub port anyway.
  • smart card reader won't compile
  • syslog is flooded w/ACPI messages
  • vsftpd is not receiving DATA connections