[Nottingham] SUSE11.1 help needed

[Matthew Tompsett]

Go for Ubuntu (or Kubuntu since you prefer KDE), easy to set up and use, but
can also get down and dirty on the cli if need be. I've tried other distros
and it by far my favorite, I also didn't have any problems playing any of
the media you specified. I haven't tried anything with RAID but there's
bound to be loads of tutorials on the internet on how to do it, just google
it. I think you'll need the alternate install CD to do so. To run OO.o3 you
need to add an external repository (as it comes with OO.o2.4) but that is
very straight forward.

Hope that helps
Matt

2009/2/26 <alistairlane at talktalk.net>

>  Jim, thanks for the help but it's still not playing so I think I'll just
> junk SuSE and try something else.
> Originally I tried to install Mepis 7 (64 bit) but it would not recognise
> my RAID setup and tried to install on one disk or the other.
> Anyone got any suggestions as to which distro will do what I want
> i.e.rip/play/store music files, play the odd DVD, view/store photo files,
> run OO.o3 and Firefox, preferably with KDE front end, which can be installed
> on an AMD x2 machine with RAID.
> Alistair
>
>
>  -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Moore <jmthelostpacket at googlemail.com>
> To: nottingham at mailman.lug.org.uk
> Sent: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 18:16
> Subject: Re: [Nottingham] SUSE11.1 help needed
>
>  alistairlane at talktalk.net wrote:
>
> > Hi Jim
>
> > I've tried all sorts of music CDs (bought and copied) but the system
>
> > just doesn't see them, nothing appears in the device notifier and
>
> > neither amrok or Kaffein is launched.
>
> > Alistair
>
> >
>
> <snips>
>
>
> There is a known bug in OpenSuSE 11.1 (which I haven't come across
>
> myself, surprisingly enough), which the team are working on. It's down
>
> to permissions for CD/DVD drives, and here's /a/ workaround if it is that*:
>
>
> YAST >> Security and Users >> User Management >> "select your user" >>
>
> Edit >> Details >> Groups >> check "cdrom" and "disk" and then click on
>
> "ACCEPT".
>
>
> There are several more (temporary) fixes, but I won't give you the
>
> 50,000-odd Google hits in one big email... this one would seem to
>
> suffice until Novell or the community find a way to patch this rather
>
> embarrassing cockup.
>
>
> *If you can access the drive with a data DVD or CD then it most likely
>
> is this.
>
>
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