Opensuse 13.2 question (please bear with me)


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it has been ages and opensuse has changed tremendously.

 

how do I make sure I have the latest nvidia drivers installed (Geforce 770M 3GB discrete card)

 

then how do I add nvidia to my repositories.

 

I'm completely new to this new opensuse 13.2. I did overcome my UEFI issues and now want to get my system put together accordingly.

 

thanks,

Chrisj1968

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I am using the standard drivers for now. I'm shocked I was able to get my wireless network laser printer setup using su super user mode. I'm shocked at myself for figuring it out!

 

Gunzip printer-driver-name-.gz

 

then Bash printer-driver-name-01 name of printer.

 

it installed, I logged into my router, got the printers IP address and did a test print.. BAM! 

 

rocking opensuse like 

 

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Sounds to me like you're doing a bit better than you think you are? :D

 

I'm getting re-accustomed to Linux myself, and this is my first go around with Opensuse. Loving it though, my new favorite distro.

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opensuse 13.2 is what I'm using.

 

maybe you can help me. using 13.2 I'm having troubles with getting my sound setup.

 

my hardware;

 

conexant HD audio w/ DTS studio software

 

laptop: Toshiba QOSMIO X70-AST3GX3

 

link to my laptops detailed specs (I hope the link works) if you have a clue of any work arounds or knwo of someone who can assist in this endeavor, I'll be assured to help another new linux user. kind of like a running agreement to help others.

 

I found repositories for the different versions of opensuse (to do my part in helping) for nvidia drivers (also bumblebee for optimus technology)

 

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I don't have any tips for your audio, sorry. Everything I've installed on so far has pretty basic hardware and was detected fine.

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Here's a good place to start reading.

 

https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:NVIDIA_drivers

 

Does your laptop use Optimus? If so, you may want to research that along with your laptop model. It's not "officially" supported and can cause quite a bit of grief.

 

Yeah but somehow when I went to install it, it installed all kinds of other stuff and jacked up my install. is there a terminal command i can use to just install optimus itself?

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Yeah but somehow when I went to install it, it installed all kinds of other stuff and jacked up my install. is there a terminal command i can use to just install optimus itself?

Any Optimus support is bundled within the driver itself. The general consensus seems to be it's best to avoid trying it and go with Bumblebee instead.

 

http://bumblebee-project.org/index.html

 

Hopefully one of the folks here who has actually used it will drop in and offer some tips/insight.

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yeah. it appears that Optimus (bumblebee)drivers or that part is default installed with opensuse 13.2. I'm completely stoked to be away from Windows. I have a brother wireless printer HL-2270DW that has perfect drivers for Opensuse 13.2 at:

 

 

The package installer starts right up after you DL.

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I'm thinking of jumping into OpenSuse myself for a while. I'm on ubuntu 15.04, I think I'll miss most apt-get :) but I also enjoy a complete distro like suse, with tools of it's own to config everything. 

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I'm thinking of jumping into OpenSuse myself for a while. I'm on ubuntu 15.04, I think I'll miss most apt-get :) but I also enjoy a complete distro like suse, with tools of it's own to config everything. 

It's worth checking out, one of my systems here is running OpenSUSE Tumbleweed (their rolling release) and reasonably happy with it for what I use it for -- they do polish their stuff up pretty nicely (at least the KDE side, I don't bother looking at Gnome much anymore), and YaST is a nice central do-it-all utility, it's improved a lot over the years, even has a ncurses version for servers and such.  Zypper is kind of hit or miss for my tastes, I have run into 'dependency hell' issues and other general wonkyness from time to time with it, but it's not an everyday thing either.  Their wiki is fairly well done as well.

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