SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 SP3 Release Notes

Installation using Persistent Device names

If you plan to add additional storage devices to your system after the OS installation, we strongly recommend to use persistent device names for all storage devices during installation. The installer by default uses the kernel device names.

How to proceed:

During installation, enter the partitioner. For each partition, select "Edit" and go to the "FStab Options" dialog. Any mount option except "Device name" provide you persistent devicenames.

To switch an already installed system to using persistent device names, proceed as described above for all existing partitions. In addition, rerun the boot loader module in YaST to switch the bootloader to using the persistent device name also. Just start the module and select "Finish" to write the new proposed configuration to disk. This needs to be done before adding new storage devices.

For further information please look at http://en.opensuse.org/Persistant_Storage_Device_Names.

PDFs of the System Documentation in Sub-Packages

Most sled-* packages with the system documentation are split. Find the PDFs in the *-pdf sub-packages or directly at http://www.novell.com/documentation/sled10.

Deployment Guide: 3.3.1 Accessing an SMT Server

The names of the boot prompt parameters given in the manual are obsolete and will get discontinued in SUSE Linux Enterprise 11. Instead of smturl use regurl and instead of smtcert use regcert.

KDE User Guide: 15.6.4 Disabling Features / GNOME User Guide: 12.6.4 Disabling Features

By default, Firefox does not honor settings made with the GConf system. In order to make the GConf lockdown keys effective, edit /usr/lib/firefox/local-configuration.js and set config.use_system_prefs to true. This file allows the administrator to set and lock preferences that will apply to every Firefox user.

Ograniczona obsługa grafiki podczas instalacji na IBM SurePOS 700 4800-7X3

Obsługa grafiki na systemach IBM SurePOS 700 4800-7X3 z monitorami 4820-2GN jest ograniczona. Podczas instalacji graficznej można napotkać komunikat błędu monitora (OSD):

OUT OF RANGE H: -48.4 KHz V: -60.1 Hz.

Aby obejść problem, należy wybrać inną rozdzielczość, tryb VESA lub tekstowy podczas instalacji. Inna możliwość to wybranie natywnego sterownika podczas startu systemu (do polecenia uruchamiającego należy dopisać acceleratedx=1). Może także pomóc aktualizacja BIOS.

Po instalacji problem nie występuje, a system graficzny jest w pełni obsługiwany.

Zniekształcenia obrazu na platformie FIC GE2 (Transtec SENYO600)

On the FIC GE2 platform when using 24 BPP color depth and resolutions >= 1280x1024 on the DVI interface stripes are displayed on the X server. This distorts all windows.

Changing to 16 BPP color depth seems to solve the problem.

Tablet PC Features on 64-bit Architectures

Currently, Tablet PC support is only available for 32-bit architectures. To use Tablet PC features on 64-bit architectures, you need to install a 32-bit system.

Updating from SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 Service Pack 2 (SP2) to Service Pack 3

The update to Firefox 3 requires some additional packages to be installed. Some libraries used by Firefox3 will be installed under /usr/lib[64]/firefox/ as a second stack. Those libraries are only used by Firefox3.

Updating from SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 Service Pack 1 (SP1) to Service Pack 2 (SP2)

For updating from SP1 to SP2 using YaST online update, zen-updater, or rug, we recommend to apply the slesp1-libzypp-4907 patch first.

This patch fixes the restart of ZMD during updating the maintenance stack itself. If the patch is not applied first (and ZMD restarted afterwards), you encounter issues during the update to SP2, such issues as thrown exceptions, etc.

For more information about the update procedure, see the manual.

PatchCD Update Relies on Configured Installation Sources

Before starting the PatchCD update, add additional installation sources for all add-on products and KMP packages (such as nVidia or ATi graphics drivers) to match the Service Pack level to be installed. Use the YaST 'Installation Source' module for this. Otherwise, the PatchCD update might show dependency conflicts due to installing updated packages, e.g. the kernel packages.

MDNS and .local Domain Names

The .local top level domain is treated as link-local domain by the resolver. DNS requests are send as multicast DNS requests instead of normal DNS requests. If you already use the .local domain in your nameserver configuration, you must switch this option off in /etc/host.conf. Also read the host.conf manual page.

If you want to switch off MDNS during installation, use nomdns=1 as a boot parameter.

For more information on multicast DNS, see http://www.multicastdns.org.

YaST Software Management Gtk and Qt Front-Ends

YaST comes with two front-ends depending on the desktop installed on your system. By default, the YaST gtk front-end runs on the GNOME desktop, and the YaST qt front-end on the other desktops. This is defined with the WANT_UI variable in the /sbin/yast2 script. Feature-wise, the gtk front-end is very similar to the qt front-end described in the manuals. One exception is the gtk software management module, which differs considerably from the qt port.

Notes on yast2-add-on-creator, yast2-cd-creator, and yast2-product-creator

yast2-add-on-creator creates a custom product (ISO image) from plain RPM files. It is intended for ISVs who want to create extensions for SUSE Linux Enterprise products.

yast2-cd-creator creates a (bootable) ISO image from existing product(s). It can be used for customizing an existing product. For example, it can create a smaller ISO image with a subset of all packages (e.g., basic packages for a minimal system), or, the other way around, an ISO image with more products such as SLES + SDK.

yast2-product-creator is a successor of the cd-creator. It includes a GUI for the kiwi imaging system. This way it is also possible to create a Live-CD, XEN image, etc. from the same configuration used in the CD creator. The product creator will get shipped together with the SDK.

Note, the cd-creator does not support YUM installation sources, but the forthcomming product-creator (part of SDK) will do. If you want to create a medium with updates included, use the product-creator.

Read-Write Support for the NTFS File System

You can enable read-write support for the Microsoft NTFS file system. Mount a NTFS partition using ntfs-3g as the file system type. For example, enter on the command-line:

mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 /mnt

If you want to mount a NTFS partition permantently with read-write support, add a line to the /etc/fstab to mount it automatically at boot-time (create the mount point first!):

/dev/sda1 /data-ntfs ntfs-3g defaults 0 0

A more complete example would be:

/dev/sda1 /data-ntfs ntfs-3g \ users,gid=users,fmask=113,dmask=002,locale=en_US.UTF-8 0 0

This would give authenticated users write access to the partition, read access for everyone else. It also gives an example of the proper use of locale if necessary. Using default for an option opens the partition wide, even for abuse.

Java Plug-In and Firefox

The Sun Java plug-in crashes Firefox on the first run. To work around this issue, restart Firefox after this first crash. Then Firefox will run properly.