Gryphon - SuSE 9.1

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Installation LOG - SUSE 9.1 on AMD 1400 - 19-MAY-2004
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HARDWARE Configuration:
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  AMD1400
  Router Billion
  1 Network card
  1 IEEE 1394 card
  1 USB 2.0 card
  1 SBLive card
  1 HDD 40GB, with 4 existing partitions
    8MB Primary Partition (W2K NTFS)
    8MB free
    3x8MB 3 logical partitions (FAT32)
  1 HDD 120GB, with 2 partitions
    60 MB (NTFS)
    60 MB (NTFS)

Network Configuration:
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- Computer Name : gryphon
- Router        : 192.168.1.254      (Billion)
- Mail Server   : 192.168.1.69
- unicorn       : 192.168.1.102
- gryphon       : 192.168.1.100

      
SUSE Configuration:
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- 2 Partitions
   1 GB Swap
   7 GB Root

   
Installation / Configuration LOG:
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 - 20040521 - Device - Uninstall SBLIve & Re-installed (solve continuus beep problem)
 - 20040521 - Desktop - Font = Arial 10, Window=Thin Keramik, ScreenSaver=SlideShow
 
 - 20040522 - Multimedia - Linux Divx5.0.5 (simply run ./install.sh as root, which copied .so files in /usr/local/lib and .h files in /usr/local/include
 - 20040522 - Multimedia - Linux Divx5.0.5 (copied *.so in /usr/lib and *.h in /usr/include)
    ==> CANCEL THIS BUT SEE IF OTHER PLAYER IS OK
 - 20040522 - Multimedia - Installed mplayer - packages :
      lame-libs-3.96-1.athlon.rpm
      mplayer-1.0pre4-3.i386.rpm
      mplayer-common-1.0pre4-3.i386.rpm
      mplayer-gui-1.0pre4-3.i386.rpm
      mplayer-skin-default-1.0-2.noarch.rpm
 - 20040522 - Multimedia - Installed win32 codec:
 - 20040522 - KArchiver - set dir as shell's one (extract and open)
 - 20040522 - MPlayer - Set KMenu entry (copy of gmplayer.desktop, icon to /usr/share/pixmaps/gnome-mplayer.png) 
 - 20040526 - YOU - KDE Security fix
 - 20040526 - Konqueror - Remove confirmation for Trash, Incr. window size + save theme, remove underline filenames, ...
 - 20040526 - fstab - remapped windows partition to correct name, created dirs /windows/J, /windows/K, chmod 555, and deleted G and H.
 - 20040526 - VMWARE - VMWare 4.5.1 installed (see history), kernel modules rebuilt, no samba configuration
 - 20040527 - VMWARE - New vmware user ('useradd vmware'), member of group disk + other usual groups
 - 20040527 - VMWARE - Added desktop icon for vmware (icon in /opt/kde3/share/..., use find / -name *.png -print), set user to 'vmware'
 - 20040528 - BASH - Enabled Fortune by editing ~/.profile
 - 20040527 - VMWARE - Check for Update : MANUAL !
 - 20040527 - DESKTOP - Win. Behavior - Set Desktop Active Border trigger to 100ms.
 
 SOME PROBLEMS with VMWARE: seems to be linked with CDROM emulation. When Virtual CDROM set to ISO file, seems to work better.
 
 - 20040531 - Kate - Schemas - Fonts - BitStream Vera Sans Mono 8
 
See AMD 1000 Log
 - 20040601 - Konqueror - settings - Behavior - Set Home URL to http://www.google.be (note: will also affect file manager icon, but not the one on the left side)

- KDE - Change Size of KDE Menu
	In file .kde/share/config/kickerrc, section [menu], change variable MenuEntryHeight to 22 or 16.
	Update kde with
		dcop kicker Panel restart
- Firefox
	Install in shell from firefox-0.8-i686-pc-linux-gnu.tar.gz:
		tar -zxvf firefox-0.8-i686-pc-linux-gnu.tar.gz
		mv firefox /usr/local
	Add menu link (icons are in /usr/local/firefox/chromes/icons/default)
	
	BUT Problem with font... (bad rendering. No AA? No TrueType Hinting?)
	
- Thunderbird 
	Install in shell from thunderbird-0.6-i686-linux-gtk2+xft.tar.gz:
		tar -zxvf thunderbird-0.6-i686-linux-gtk2+xft.tar.gz
		mv thunderbird /usr/local
	Add menu link (icons are in /usr/local/thunderbird/chromes/icons/default)
- 20040606 - Keyboard Shortcuts - Konqueror Home <-- WIn-K, Win-E	
-          - Changed SuSE Installation Source to dvd:///
-          - Installed GDM, Enlightment
-          - Set Menu/System/Configuration/Login Screen Setup (GDM) to run as root (edit KDEMenu)
-          - Installed new GDM Theme
-          - YAST - SYSCONFIG Edit - set GDM as DM, and allowed remote login


  
Questions LOG:
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- Use Karchiver or Ark? (--> see Karchiver options)
- Why after installation of mplayer, link is at /etc/X11/applnk/Multimedia/gmplayer.desktop ???
- Why Xine doesn't work with AVI but MPlayer does?
- Why middle click button