Certainly I have been hitting a couple major bugs:
- Bug 376742 - Wireless doesn't work (wpa_supplicant doesn't get run)
- Bug 343858 - gdm packages downloaded with control-center upgrade use resolution specified for external monitor
Since Alpha 2, I have been running the weekly (zypper update -t package).
Certainly things are starting to stabilize now. For instance, I have no problem using the machine as a workstation.
I have to say that the Dell 700m laptop is well supported along with a good portion of my other extraneous hardware, the majority of the core functionality works very very well.
That said, I notice that Hibernate and Suspend/Resume used to work in SUSE Linux 10.1, it doesn't anymore. I wonder if there is a way to revert to whatever mechanism was being used before...?
Also, I am unsure if the SD Card reader works or not. By working I mean, I plug an SD card into the onboard reader and a windows pops up in GNOME and asks what it should do with it. I'll test this again tonight; I think that the last time I looked into this was back in the 10.2 days, so things may have changed since then.
Next is the modem. I have never been able to successfully establish a dial-up connection with the modem. I am really not quite certain as to what the problem is. Again, this will be something that I will test out tonight.
I have also never tested the firewire port. Does anyone have a firewire external harddrive that they want to lend me?
Hmm, the last thing is the microphone. On the 700m there is a defect in the motherboard design that creates static on the microphone port. I have tested this a couple of years ago with a Windows XP install. There is certainly some sort of configuration problem with 11.0b1 and esd which won't let me turn on gnome-reclevel so I can't test this properly at the moment.
Certainly I need to do some research into the new pulseaudio stuff.
Meh.
That's a problem for another day.
Anyways, that's my experience with openSUSE 11.0 and my laptop.
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