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NVIDIA 100.14.19 openSUSE 10.3 and Laptop External Monitor

So, I installed openSUSE 10.3 and was very happy. Installed the NVIDIA 100.14.19 driver from the NVIDIA Community Repository and my external monitor broke.

Seems that when you install the NVIDIA Restricted Driver 100.14.19 the external monitor is set to “Disabled” which is not the case with the built in “nv” driver.

In openSUSE 10.3/10.2 you can fix this by opening YaST –> Hardware –> Graphics Card and Monitor (something like that, don’t have it in front of me at this time) and check the “Activate Dual Head Mode” option, save and you should be good (go ahead, reboot.. and test it).

VMWare Workstation not working with Wireless (Kernel 2.6.20)

So you may be using VMWare Workstation on a nice shiny Linux box, just to find out you cannot use your Bridged networking over the Wireless Card, confining you to the sofa nearest to your Router sitting in an obscure place. So what do you do? You fix it of course.

How?

Download this patched version of vmnet.tar created by Hauke-m from the VMWare Forums and Funderburg over at linuxquestions.org.

New vmnet.tar

Replace your current vmnet.tar file (mine is located in /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source/vmnet.tar) and re-run your vmare-config.pl (for me sudo /usr/bin/vmware-config.pl)

Your all set FINALLY..

Hopefully VMWare will fix it on their releases

Installing MythTV on openSUSE 10.3 - Wiki

I’ve decided to start working on some instructions on Installing MythTV on openSUSE 10.3. I hope to update the MythTV wiki, and also hope that you find it helpful. There will be plenty more Wiki’s to come.

http://benkevan.com/wiki/index.php?title=Installing_MythTV_on_openSUSE_10.3