European Wafaa

10.3 is installed and there are a few issues, nothing disastrous but annoying none the less. The first item is the display. Good ol' YaST could see the NVidia card and reports it correctly, but it kinda makes a meal of the monitor. It has set the resolution to 1600x1200 which is what I chose at initial install option (you know when you can choose your language/display/driver/etc). It has it down as a generic LCD and a 19in with a 4:3 aspect with 16bit colourdepth, this should be 17in with a 16:10 aspect WUXGA and 24bit colourdepth. When searching through the options under SONY for monitors, my laptop isn't mentioned the only VAIO laptop I can see is the VGN-TX1XP, I have no idea how to get round that so I manually set the resolution to 1920x1200 and keep the LCD option, anyone with ideas on that? The other bugger of this is that I can't have any of the 3D desktop goodness as SaX2 doesn't recognise that I have manually installed the NVidia drivers - for some reason the rpm blobs really don't work

On a hardware perspective, so far I've found an additional two items that don't work and I can't seem to get working - the built-in webcam and the built-in Memory Stick reader (the SD reader works a charm). The webcam would be great to get working as it means I can play around witht he likes of cheese, but also use it for social chit chats with family across the globe (well my brother-in-law and his clan in Toronto). The Memory Stick reader would be great to have working as I'm regrettably a bot of a Sony Slut - digicam from Sony as well as phone and PSP all using Memory Stick. This way I wont have to have numerous cables cluttering up the place.

The Webcam is down as a Sony Visual Communication Camera VGP-VCC22, and I have the drivers:webcam repository enabled and installed the drivers there but no joy.

On a strange DE note, my intentions are to use KDE as the primary environment on this machine as I really need to acquaint myself with KDE better and also openSUSE contribute so much to KDE it would be foolish not to sample the goodness but there is a slight snag with this. For some reason none of the keyboard shortcuts work nor do any of the hardware buttons GNOME has no problem with them and obeys my finger's requests.