coffee break is over. And suse is working. Even ppracer is working at 9 fps. Although i did have to edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf manualy for that to work.

Sound however is not working. On running alsamixer it states that no sound hardware is available.

After login i get fwm2 windows manager? Not xfce but then i did choose to login graphicaly so i cannot use startxfce2. Now yast sure has an option to change this, but where?

If you repartition, then it re-evaluates, if it still fits the given partition scheme, or any of the partitions are too small.
It runs also nicely on Pegasos, which has just 2.5x faster CPU (by Mhz). I think, the difference is more the RAM size than CPU. Even with the XFCE installer, there is about 90MB of swapping, while with the FTP version over 300MB...

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You need to load the modules to get it working (quoting myself):

Enable sound for the next boot by editing /etc/sysconfig/kernel with your favorite text editor (vi :-) ), and add these two parameters to 'MODULES_LOADED_ON_BOOT' to look like this:
This enables sound for the next boot. To load modules immediately, you can use modprobe as root: You can add the following line to your ~/.bashrc Or you can edit /etc/sysconfig/windowmanager and add 'startxfce4' to DEFAULT_WM. Or you can use YaST to edit the file (yast2 -> system -> /etc/sysconfig editor)

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I did have those lines mentioned for sound. But as it turned out you need to have root access if you want to use the alsamixer. Actually i need root access if i want to use sound in ppracer. It does worse things to the framerate < 1fps with hardware acceleration. I will try to change the window manager later this weekend.

I must admit, that I used alsamixer as root, as I used audio only with 'mpd' (Music Player Daemon), a network controllable media player daemon.

OK, problem found: one needs to be in the audio group to be able to access audio devices in SUSE. Add yourself to the audio group in /etc/group by using a text editor or YaST2 to access sound as a regular user. You need to log out and relogin, if you were logged in during the change.

I'll check it out, why it does not happen automagically...

Have a nice weekend!

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changing the window manager did not work. Instead i changed to login method to console. So now i can execute startxfce4 from commandline. Works nicely.

Strange. I tested both methods, and they worked for me. Common mistake, also by me sometimes is an extra s, I mean 'windowsmanager' instead of windowmanager' :-) Also, I just see, that I forgot to mention, that after editing anything under /etc/sysconfig one needs to run 'SuSEconfig'. But you use my preferred method now: text console with startxfce4

as normal user you are not allowed to mount an usb stick you need to be root for that also.

If you are in XFCE (or GNOME/KDE), the USB stick will appear as an icon your desktop, and you can mount/umount it as a user by right clicking on it.

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The icons are there, but you cannot mount/unmount it unless your are root or superuser. Could this be like the audio thing?

Another thing that confuses me is using variables in shell scripts.

E.g.
if i use export MYVARNAME=test
in the script i can do
echo $MYVARNAME and it outputs test as expected.
But when the script is finished an echo $MYVARNAME is empty. The same goes when i execute another shel script from within the current script.

This is the expected behavior :-) 'export' helps to make the variable to subprocesses, but not to the parent shell. If you don't use 'export', just use plain 'BLA=bla', then the variable is not available to sub processes.
'export' is just for this situation, and it works:

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Yes, it's exactly the same problem. On the machine I tested this, I have GDM (Gnome Display Manager) running. It interacts with ConsoleKit: ConsoleKit helps to put the user into group 'audio' when sitting at the console, which means, the user has access to the sound card. And it seems to grant enough rights to mount/umount USB drives (remember, GDM runs as root).

When 'startxfce4' is executed by the user from the command line, it is run as the user, not as root, so these extra rights can't be granted.

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Thanks for the explanation.

The scitech mgl sources expect you to execute an shell script and afterwards run an build command.
As a temporary measure i used sh as the last line of the script and got an shell with the environment vars working.

As for mounting i will see if there is a matching group for that to put the user in.

You are welcome. I just figured it out a few minutes ago :-) Here is a modified example: Nono, as far as I can see.

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