Suse Problems

[CSharp]

There are four things I want to do with Suse, and I haven't had success with any of them. Most them are specialized and I realize I should go to the more specialized forums for assistance, but perhaps I can get some help here first.

1. I want to be able to use Wine with linux, but EVERY single program I try to use it with throws some kind of exception after I start it. Usually it is a dll import error or some other kind. I followed the directions on the Wine site exactly as they are written.

2. I want to be able to code in OpenGL with mono. Mono works fine, but the tao framework doesn't work at all. When I run a project from mono, it says that it couldnt find opengl32.dll

3. I want to be able to view mpg files in linux. Since wine doesn't work on any windows media players, I tried to compile mplayer from source. It actually compiled fine, but when I try to run any video it just gives an obscure error messagel. Again, I did every step exactly as written.

4. Finally, I want to run beryl. I followed every instruction on every site I could find and dedicated a day to this. I eventually got it working in the end... but then after restarting, suse wouldn't let me start xserver. I finally got kde running again, but then whenever I started beryl, the screen would either turn white or freeze. Im running a geforce 7900.

Can anyone help with any of these problems? Or, perhaps could you point me to a forum that is willing to spend the time to solve a problem if I give the exact steps followed and exact error messages? Thanks.

[gogalthorp]

#3 and 4

ttp://www.thejemreport.com/mambo/content/view/254

Note this does not instruct on beryl but on compiz

[scottmorris]

Take a look at these, they contain everything necessary to get you going with the mpg and the beryl problems:

http://www.suseblog.com/?p=171

http://en.opensuse.org/Beryl

[oldcpu]

1. I want to be able to use Wine with linux, but EVERY single program I try to use it with throws some kind of exception after I start it. Usually it is a dll import error or some other kind. I followed the directions on the Wine site exactly as they are written.

Try a simple windows or dos executeable. Say its called dos-program1.exe.

Open a konsole and type:
wine dos-program1.exe

Does that give you the exception? Exactly what exception? Do a search on google for wine and that exception.

Also, please run as a regular user, and NOT as root.

[oldcpu]

3. I want to be able to view mpg files in linux. Since wine doesn't work on any windows media players, I tried to compile mplayer from source. It actually compiled fine, but when I try to run any video it just gives an obscure error messagel. Again, I did every step exactly as written.

mplayer is a great package. Few people try to compile it themselves. Most people download and install an rpm off of Packman:
http://packman.links2linux.org/package/mplayer

Since you are relatively new to SuSE, may I recommend this concept page that I have been helping to develop:
http://en.opensuse.org/Concepts

[CSharp]

Ah, thanks.. I got wine to work on the first random program I tried (irfanview). The problem was that I was logged in as root. This may be a large cause of my grievances. I just assumed that more privileges = more control over computer = more likely that apps will work. Guess not!