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I'll endeavour to feedback on these problems if i can find where to do so later... My copy of linux format should be on it's way back from town as i type so i'll see what they have to say about it when i get it, but to be fair, if they don't already know about the amount of displeasure with not just removing out of the box support for divx, mp3 (other than realplayer which is naff), avi, windows media etc, etc, but also not compiling the support in to kde applications in the first place then they much have their heads buried in a huge amount of sand! This problem is all over the web. I've got as much of the multimedia support back in as i need (basically everything but DVD reading which i've got a 5.1 dvd player under the TV to do!) but i had to install non-official versions of some of the preinstalled apps to get it which means that those rpms now appear as locked in the YAST tool and will therefore not get updated by YOU :( Also, because of what i've done, Kaffeine segfaults on exit, quicktime player has no sound just a metronome 'click' and there was something else but i forget! Don't get me wrong, SUSE 9.3 is great. And i can more than live with having to go to a few unsupported websites to get the windows codecs and stuff but the rest of it (the problems, not the OS) is just poor for the price. I think there's probably 1 key word or phrase here too. AMD64. I'm not conviced that x86 users are having quite so many problems, but my statement is not based on fact yet so take it with a pinch of salt. It also doesn't get round the spending quite literally days sometimes to get to do what should work within minutes. Anyway, i'm starting to moan :) Time to get back to work and get back onto the USB issues at some point. Martin. On Monday 16 May 2005 15:27, Jeremy Pearson wrote:
The review of the latest SUSE distro in Linux Format magazine was glowing, and they particularly stressed (a) the excellent hardware compatibility, and (b) the well-integrated multimedia. This, to me, would be worth paying the £60-odd quid for, but it seems you've had quite a different experience. Still, it would really help if you could feed these problems back to SUSE; they can't fix it if they don't know it's broken. Maybe one day we'll have hardware support which is simple and comprehensive, just like under Windows.. Jeremy -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe. FAQ: www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html
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