I recently installed Opensuse 11.1 along with my Windows XP SP2 OS using the instlux method in one of my partitions and successfully gave dual boot feature to my system. I managed to successfully enable the PPPOE internet connection in Opensuse after referring some old threads here.
Now what happened is i wanted to enable Cube Desktop in my system. I tried to enable that my going to Desktop-> Utilities -> Desktop effects and found some note written beneath it sayin that XComposite and XDamage were not present. so i decided to install Nvidia drivers for my card from Opensuse's website. after downloading the file and launching it, it started to download the necessary files from the internet. It ws here that i observed that it was downloading two repositiories (or wot it looked like...being a noob in all this) one looked like the Nvidia repository and the other looked like repository for the kernel. during the downloading of these files it gave some warnings in the middle about importing untrusted keys and file integrity issues, but i simply ignored them. It was after reboot that i saw one more version of entry of OpenSUSE there and decided to boot into that version. But instead of booting and showing a GUI, it showed a lot errors on a black screen.i shutdown the system by entering init 0 and then decided to boot into the earlier version and here too it gave the same error.
Now i know that this is an issue because of the update i had made for the kernel. now i would like to know how should i go on about removing Opensuse 11.1 from my system since it is in a separate partition (I:\) and my Windows is in the C:\ partition. Now i m confused about the sequence in which Opensuse should be removed since the GRUB is loaded in the C:\ drive along with Windows XP SP2's MBR.
Here are the options that my mind can think of now:
In addition to this, i would like to have some of below issues i had with opensuse to be sorted out:
hyeah:
Now what happened is i wanted to enable Cube Desktop in my system. I tried to enable that my going to Desktop-> Utilities -> Desktop effects and found some note written beneath it sayin that XComposite and XDamage were not present. so i decided to install Nvidia drivers for my card from Opensuse's website. after downloading the file and launching it, it started to download the necessary files from the internet. It ws here that i observed that it was downloading two repositiories (or wot it looked like...being a noob in all this) one looked like the Nvidia repository and the other looked like repository for the kernel. during the downloading of these files it gave some warnings in the middle about importing untrusted keys and file integrity issues, but i simply ignored them. It was after reboot that i saw one more version of entry of OpenSUSE there and decided to boot into that version. But instead of booting and showing a GUI, it showed a lot errors on a black screen.i shutdown the system by entering init 0 and then decided to boot into the earlier version and here too it gave the same error.
Now i know that this is an issue because of the update i had made for the kernel. now i would like to know how should i go on about removing Opensuse 11.1 from my system since it is in a separate partition (I:\) and my Windows is in the C:\ partition. Now i m confused about the sequence in which Opensuse should be removed since the GRUB is loaded in the C:\ drive along with Windows XP SP2's MBR.
Here are the options that my mind can think of now:
- Should i boot into windows and go to my Disk Managment utility and delete and then format the partition where Opensuse is loaded. (But the GRUB would still be present in C:\ :huh: :S)
- Back up all the data in my C:\ drive and then boot using the windows XP CD and then select the drive (C:\) where my windows is installed along with OpenSUSE GRUB loader and then format the drive and reinstall windows. (will this method work? i m not so sure about this, since i m worried about whether it would still load the GRUB loader for SUSE.)
In addition to this, i would like to have some of below issues i had with opensuse to be sorted out:
- how should i go on about enabling cube Desktop in Opensuse since it gave the Xcomposite and XDamage components not present error.
- The best and the sure way of disabling the Opensuse Kernel updates completely.
- I also want to install Compiz fusion in my system. My OpenSUSE 11.1 has KDE 4.1. The compiz fusion version for installing in OpenSUSE's website was for 4.2. Will installing the Compiz Fusion for KDE 4.2 in my Opensuse's KDE 4.1 give any issues?
hyeah:
