atom-editor usually takes a while to build).I mentioned in a previous post that I installed Manjaro on Lie-chan and that the sound card didn't work right. I updated Manjaro and nothing changed.
I tinkered a lot and while the on-board sound worked fine, the front speakers were dead (I had killed the front channel with ESD via headphones a long time ago) with the only work around being to plug the front speakers into the side channel and set up for 7.1 sound, which would just make things screwy when trying to watch something that has 5.1 audio.
I did as much as I could until I decided to just go back to openSUSE, opting for Tumbleweed. After installation, I tried to install XFCE and switch over to it, but couldn't get it to work. I then (using
init 3) uninstalled GNOME and rebooted to the xdm login screen. I logged in without any real regards to it and was able to get into XFCE just fine.I eventually looked around to figure out how to set up automatic login, but was unable to, then noticing that
xdm was installed and not lightdm (which is usually default for XFCE), so I (again, via init 3) uninstalled xdm and installed lightdm instead - ending up at command line.I decided to download the net install and just reinstall Tumbleweed again with XFCE to make things much easier, and since the net install ISO wasn't very large, I was able to install once it was downloaded and burned.
It did have to download about two gigabytes of data (even opting out of LibreOffice to save time, and also forgetting that Tumbleweed only has "Fresh" and not "Still"), and it kinda sucked to sit through it while I was somewhat exasperated and tired from working on Lie-chan from about 10:00 (this was this past Saturday, the 1st); it was probably around 20:00 when I was waiting on the install.
After installation, I dug around for the 13.2 multimedia and codec guide thingy by caf4926, eventually having to "activate" my SUSE account to get into the forums to look at the 13.1 guide. I don't remember How I got to the 13.2 version, but I copied the packages for later reference (if/when needed), so I wouldn't have to deal with the crap again.
Once it was pretty much ready, I went to bed and continued with it when I was able to the next day.
Since XFCE settings differ a lot from GNOME's, there wasn't really any way to adjust the sound card besides YAST, which made things weird once I got the card configured properly in YAST (opting for "advanced" config instead of "quick" or "normal"). Eventually I found that I just choose the proper output in VLC before figuring to select the proper output in VLC's settings.
By this time, I'm somewhat tired after messing around with it all, and since it was about thirty Celsius in the room, I just turned Lie-chan off, not wanting to forego watching what I was originally wanting to watch early Saturday morning.
So what was supposed to be a quick update (probably about thirty minutes to an hour), turned out to be a sixteen-hour, semi-gruelling process of tinkering/installing/updating/configuring.
Lie-chan will be one of few Tumbleweed installations (the Pi2 will have Tumbleweed once tested, and Banpi will be tough because the GPU isn't supported by the kernel), as almost everything else will be Manjaro.
FreeFileSync decided to go with MegaUpload (or similar host) instead of SourceForge and FOSSHub, so the AUR entry for it is broken and I'm not able to compile it at all. I'll eventually see what happens, as I'm not using it right now and I have other ways of syncing (though it's a more time-consuming way).
For those wondering, yes I did write the first paragraph later, and that was because I remembered it after finishing about Lie-chan. I didn't feel like fixing the rest of the post to make up for it, so deal with it. (XD)
So I won't be saying goodbye to openSUSE at all, but I definitely won't be using any more versions (11.3 to 13.2 is a fairly decent run, I'd say).
