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About VideoLAN

VideoLAN is a software project, which produces free software for video, released under the GNU General Public License.

In order to install VLC on a SUSE Linux/openSUSE, you have several options (besides downloading and installing the RPMs manually).

Type: HTTP / Servername: download.videolan.org /
Directory: /pub/videolan/vlc/SuSE/<SUSE Version>

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1)Boot From Windows cd ,MakeUpto Two Ntfs Partitions Say 20 Gb For C:/ and 20 Gb for D:/ and Rest Remains Free.

You can Make 1 Partition For Windows.

2)There is a Step Which is Included in The Dvd Installation of Ubuntu ,Which Will Show You The Other Operating Systems in The Partitions itself.

3)Now Install Ubuntu On The Free Partition .It Will Recoganize the Window Partition in Between Will Show the Partition Table Like Below (as per the Windows Installed):

Note :You Can Delete The Partition Which is Useless And Make Some Free Space For Linux.

Well I Personally Prefer the Custom Partitions in Linux,SO it is easy to understand all the Partitions.

Device                      Label          MountPoint         Type         Format         Size

/dev/sda

/dev/sda1                                                                     ntfs                                     20003

/dev/sda2                                                             Extended                                 56306

/dev/sda5                                                                 ntfs                                        20003

Free                                                                     FreeSpace                                  39252

Now Above 20003 First Partition is Your Windows Partition(ntfs) and Other 20003 Partition is Your D:/ Partition(ntfs) and Now Click On Free and Make The Partition Like Below or As Per Your Required Space :

Device             Label         Mount Point             Type          Format             Size

/dev/sda

/dev/sda1                                                                 ntfs                                     20003

/dev/sda2                                                             Extended                              56306

/dev/sda5                                                                 ntfs                                     20003

/dev/sda6                             /boot                         ext3                 yes             1028

/dev/sda7                             /swap                         ext3                 yes             1028

/dev/sda8                             /                                  ext3                  yes           20000

/dev/sda9                         /home                           ext3                 yes             17188

Freespace                                                                                                              8mb

Here at the Above Partition The Space I Have Allocated is :

/boot Partition is Of 1 Gb Nearly (You Can Give 512 Mb )

/swap Partition is Of 1 Gb Nearly(You Can Give 512 Mb)

/ is the Root Partition Holding All The Installed Softwares ,Files etc (You Can Give this space as Per Your Requirement Minimum of 9 Gb if You are Installing Both KDE And Gnome Enviroments)

/home is The Home Partition ,it is Holding Your Documents,Music Files etc (IT Should Be Large For Storing Documents And Music etc)

If Windows Operating is Not Showing Up at the Booting Screen.

Just Follow The Steps Below

Boot Into Ubuntu :-

Now Care fully Follow steps below:-

Open->Terminal

vi /boot/grub/menu.lst

or

gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst

At the end write this (if the lines below already exists skip the steps):-

title Windows XP
root (hd0,1)
chainloader +1

Now Save the file and Exit.

hd0 Refers To Your First Hard Drive and 1 Refers To Your Partition No. Where The Windows Installed(like sda1).

(hd0,1) can be Different as Per the Windows Installed.

Restart Your System Now You have the Options to switch to Windows and Ubuntu.

Happy Dual Booting.

1)Boot From Windows cd ,MakeUpto Two Ntfs Partitions Say 20 Gb For C:/ and 20 Gb for D:/ and Rest Remains Free.

You can Make 1 Partition For Windows.

2)There is a Step Including in The Dvd Installation of openSUSE Which Will Show You The Other Operating Systems in The Installation itself .

3)Now Install openSUSE On The Free Partition .It Will Recoganize the Window Partition in Between Will Show the Partition Table Like Below (as per the Windows Installed):

Device              Label             MountPoint         Type             Format          Size

/dev/sda

/dev/sda1                                                             ntfs                                      20003

/dev/sda2                                                      Extended                                    56306

/dev/sda5                                                             ntfs                                      20003

Free                                                             FreeSpace                                  39252

Now Above 20003 First Partition is Your Windows Partition(ntfs) and Other 20003 Partition is Your D:/ Partition(ntfs) and Now Click On Free and Make The Partition Like Below :

Device                 Label                     Mount Point                     Type                      Format             Size

/dev/sda

/dev/sda1                                                                                         ntfs                                              20003

/dev/sda2                                                                                   Extended                                           56306

/dev/sda5                                                                                         ntfs                                              20003

/dev/sda6                                                /boot                                 ext3                         yes               1028

/dev/sda7                                                /swap                               ext3                         yes                 1028

/dev/sda8                                                /                                       ext3                         yes                 20000

/dev/sda9                                             /home                                 ext3                          yes                 17188

Freespace                                                                                                                                             8mb

Here at the Above Partition The Space I Have Allocated is :

/boot Partition is Of 1 Gb Nearly (You Can Give 512 Mb )

/swap Partition is Of 1 Gb Nearly(You Can Give 512 Mb)

/ is the Root Partition Holding All The Installed Softwares ,Files etc (You Can Give this space as Per Your Requirement Minimum of 9 Gb if You are Installing Both KDE And Gnome Enviroments)

/home is The Home Partition ,it is Holding Your Documents,Music Files etc (IT Should Be Large For Storing Documents And Music etc)

If Windows Operating is Not Showing Up at the Booting Screen.

Just Follow The Steps Below

Boot Into openSUSE :-

Now Care fully Follow steps below:-

Right Click on Desktop ->Open Terminal

vi /boot/grub/menu.lst

or

gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst

At the end write this (if the lines below already exists skip the steps):-

title Windows XP
root (hd0,1)
chainloader +1

Now Save the file and Exit.

hd0 Refers To Your First Hard Drive and 1 Refers To Your Partition No. Where The Windows Installed(like sda1).

(hd0,1) can be Different as Per the Windows Installed.

Restart Your System Now You have the Options to switch to Windows and openSuse.

Happy Dual Booting.

:)

Reader is integrated with Adobe Connect software, which enables users to instantly communicate and accelerate approvals with virtually anyone, anywhere, at any time. Add more security to your documents, forms, and drawings with digital signatures. Leverage Adobe LiveCycle Policy Server and the new Adobe Online Services Document Center to enforce access rights at the document level. Version 8.1.1 includes unspecified updates.

Installation Steps :-

Go to ->Computer->Control Center->Yast

Now Click on Software->Software Management

Search For adobe

And You Will Find Many of The Package List Here ,Now Select

acroread(7.0.9) or You have other Versions ,just Select the Package named acroread.

Click on Install.

Now Click Accept.

It will Take Some Time for it’s Installation.

Now You r Done .

Now goto->Computer->More Applications->Office->Adobe Acrobat.

Enjoy Reading Pdf Files.

:)

Go to->Control Center->Yast

Click On Software->Community Repository

Check On Packman Repository .

YAST will then automatically setup the repositories for you. During the setup process, you will be asked if you want YAST to import the gpg keys for the repositories you chose and you need to select “yes”.

Wait…..

Now,

Go to Yast->Click on Software->Software Manager.For Some Minutes.

Search For mplayer.

Now there are Lots of Softwares are Listed .

Select What r Required.

MPlayer(1.orc2)

mplayer-plug-in(3.50)

libvisual-plugins(0.4.0)

You Can Also Select Optional Multimedia Packages Like : smplayer(0.5.21) and smplayer-debuginfo(0.5.21) or gnome-mplayer(0.5.4) and gnome-mplayer-debuginfo(0.5.4)

Now After Selecting Packages Click On Accept.

An Installation Will automatically Start Preforming Wait For Some Time.

Now You r Done.

Open & Play :-

Go to ->Computer->More Applications->Click on Multimedia->Mplayer.

Enjoy Mplayer.

:)

Sabayon is Not Yet Popular but is Climbing the DistroWatch Very Quickly .If You Want a Change ,Sabayon is like a “Breath of Fresh Air”.It is One of The Cool Distro that i have Seen After Watching Suse,Ubuntu,Fedora etc.

The Main Features of any Sabayon Version are :

Sabayon Offers a Complete out-of -box experience.This Means it Comes With pre-Installed multimedia,internet,gaming abilities and many of the Latest Softwares.

Releases are done in a short-time.This Means that You Don’t Need to Depend on Updating ‘by hand’ to the latest software Versions

Unlike most other distributions,sabayon is Completely Independent of Commercial interests.the Developers of Sabayon Linux are all users of other distributions –so they have made a Distribution “From users of users”.

Sabayon is arguably the Most Complete Distro that packs all Possible Application into a DVD.Only Knoppix,Perhaps ,is More Complete.An Alternative for people ,who do not have access to DVD Media is a mini-edition ,which is Available for Downloads and Can be Burned to a CD.This Version has KDE,Fluxbox and Other basic Applications.

System Requirement :

• i586 Processor(Starting from AMD K5 and Intel Pentium)
• Minimun 256 MB RAM ;512 Recomended.
• Live Enviroment (with or Without 3D)
• Approximately 12 GB of Free Disk Space.

Games and Entertainment :

The Sabayon Dvd is Loaded With a Lots of Games and There Demo’s Like Quake 4 and Cold War.

The Multimedia applicatios are Probably one of the most difficult desktop applications to configure and install on some Linux Distros .Sabayon is Completely Different and Different and includes Applications that you need for Viewing movies ,listening to Music Editing Video Clips,Recording and Editing Music,Managing Music Notes etc,K3B(Writer),and Amarok.

Visit For More Features And Downlaoads :-Click Here

M Using Nvidia Graphics Card ,I Have Not Tried Yet But,

You Can Find a Nice Tutorial For that is Given Here : -

http://linux.wordpress.com/

:)

So you really want to have all those 3D goodies running on your openSUSE 10.3 box using the latest Compiz Fusion … oki doki. The following how-to differs a little bit from the official how-to @opensuse.org site.

So you really want to have all those 3D goodies running on your openSUSE 10.3 box using the latest Compiz Fusion … . The following how-to differs a little bit from the official how-to @opensuse.org site.

In my case I am running openSUSE 10.3 x64 with Gnome and an Nvidia 6200 video card on 17? 1080×728 resolution. (guess for Kde it should also work).

1)Configure Nvidia Graphics and 3d Acceration from http://en.opensuse.org/Nvidia

Now search for ‘nvidia’ and select-

• nvidia-gfxG01-kmp-default
• x11-video-nvidiaG01

After Downloading and Installing Nvidia Packages.

We then tell the kernel to use this driver, to do this start the konsole command line, login as root and type ‘modprobe nvidia’.

Open->Terminal

Type

puneet@localhost : su -

password :

root@localhost : modprobe nvidia.

Restart the computer to use the new driver.

To check that we are using the new driver use:

YAST -> Hardware->Graphics card & monitor

• For KDE:
• For Gnome:

If you would like to setup autostart of compiz install Compiz Manager: Click here to install compiz-manager

Now head to Yast and launch Software management and install the following packages as well, unless they are already installed:

• compiz-emerald
• compiz-emerald-themes
• compiz-fusion-kde (or compiz-fusion-gnome)
• fusion-icon
  
• all the related dependencies

Now After Downloading the above Packages follow the steps Below

OPen Terminal :-

puneet@localhost : su -

password :

root@localhost :gnome-xgl-switch –enable-xgl

If The Command Given Above sends you the Following Error :

bash: gnome-xgl-switch: command not found

Then Configure Xgl :

Install XGL and Compiz

The packages you need are available on the openSUSE DVD. Just use Yast ,search for xgl compiz gconf and install it. How easy can it be?

Hack the configuration files

Unfortunately we have to hack the configuration files a little bit. No worry, it is easier like it seems. Let’s start with the file displaymanager. Get root permissions and change the following lines using your favorite editor like explained below:

su
cd /etc/sysconfig
vi displaymanager

Search

DISPLAYMANAGER=
DISPLAYMANAGER_XSERVER=

and replace on

DISPLAYMANAGER="xgl"
DISPLAYMANAGER_XSERVER="xgl"

Also Search

DISPLAYMANAGER_XGL_OPTS=

and replace on

DISPLAYMANAGER_XGL_OPTS="-accel glx:pbuffer -accel xv:fbo"

Editing xorg.conf

Next we have to edit the X-Org configuration file like this:

cd cd /etc/X11/ vi xorg.conf

Add the following line in the Section “Device”

Option “NoFlip” “True”

Section "Device"
  BoardName    "GeForce 7800 GT"
  BusID        "4:0:0"      (try lspci | grep VGA. Last set of  numbers is your BusID)
  Driver       "nvidia"
  Identifier   "Device[0]"
  VendorName   "NVidia"
  Option       "NoFlip" "True"
EndSection

and add the next line to the Section “Extensions”

Option “Composite” “off”

Section "Extensions"
   Option "Composite" "off"
EndSection

Save the File and Exit ,Now Restart Your Computer and You r Done .

Note :- No Need To Worry About the Following Error From running glxgears on Terminal.

XIO: fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server “:0.0″
after 4182 requests (4080 known processed) with 0 events remaining.

Enjoy Compiz Fusion.

:)