yeah, I do really suck at blogs. I need to work on it for sure.
So last night I was up until 2 am configuring my OpenSUSE into a decent OS. You see, I was playing around in YaST, and hit a button to update, and aparently the http site went down halfway through and I was left with an unstable system. Not to worry, I installed a minimal system of OpenSUSE 10.0 on /dev/sda1 (the main one is on /dev/sda4) and then copied everything from /dev/sda4 to 1, except /boot and a few others. The only problem I had after booting was some permission problems in my home directory, fixed with "chown -R chad *" and my /etc/fstab was still configured to the old settings. After getting all of that to work, I formatted /dev/sda4 and mounted it as my /home. This way I can keep 1 home when I start installing more distros. Plus sda4 is 50 GB where the rest are about 7. Exciting stuff.
And I finally got sound to work on the system. The inboard card refused to work, though a few people online claimed success with it. I finally just gave up and got a $30 PCI soundcard for christmas. It's a SoundBlaster something, as cheap as they get. In order to get it to work I had to "alsaconf" which had it only work for the root user so I "chmod 777 /dev/dsp" and /dev/mixer but the settings didn't stay on restart to I had to do "alsactl store 1."
The media players SUSE provides are all crap, so downloaded mplayer becomes necessary, as well as uninstalling everything they give you. I now use mplayer for all movies and sound, because, unlike the others, it works. I still haven't gotten it to work for any .mov or inside firefox as a plugin, despite the fact that I have everything set up that I need to do that.
Here is my todo list before I declare the computer usable:
-connect to the Mac's iTunes sharing with rhythmbox
-get .movs to play
-get MSN to work in GAIM 2.0 beta (having some errors about ssl)
-have it start KDE instead of gnome when I startx from runlevel 3
-and get browser's plugins to work.
So I've gotten a lot done on it but theres still a ton to do.
I still need to apply to colleges and do my AP chem and English. Ah how school can waste a good vacation.
