Will start to write in Bahasa Indonesia (again) here soon.

Just update your driver to get the improvements and (maybe) bug-fixes, see the release notes for it.

*) For the ATI RADEON (9500 and later), MOBILITY RADEON (M10 and later), RADEON XPRESS IGP and FireGL (Z1 and later) series.

The installation of this driver on openSUSE 11.2 is relatively easy, but the one who wants the newest version should do with the hard way. Actually it is not so hard, only typing several commands in console like it was on openSUSE 11.1.

In my ASUS EEEPC 1201T, the VGA controller’s name is:

su -c 'lspci | grep VGA'

Password:
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RS780M/RS780MN [Radeon HD 3200 Graphics]

If the driver is successfully installed, check these output (the green one) using common user (like: julia):

fglrxinfo

display: :0.0  screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: ATI Radeon HD 3200 Graphics
OpenGL version string: 3.3.9836 Compatibility Profile Context

,

glxinfo | grep render

direct rendering: Yes
OpenGL renderer string: ATI Radeon HD 3200 Graphics

,

rpm -qa | grep fglrx

fglrx64_7_4_0_SUSE112-8.732-1.x86_64

, then:

rpm -qi fglrx64_7_4_0_SUSE112-8.732-1.x86_64

Name        : fglrx64_7_4_0_SUSE112        Relocations: (not relocatable)
Version     : 8.732                             Vendor: (none)
Release     : 1                             Build Date: Thu 03 Jun 2010 11:23:06 AM WIT
Install Date: Thu 03 Jun 2010 11:25:51 AM WIT      Build Host: opensuse-id.unikom.ac.id
Group       : Servers                       Source RPM: fglrx64_7_4_0_SUSE112-8.732-1.src.rpm
Size        : 133011006                        License: ATI Technologies Inc.
Signature   : (none)
URL         : http://ati.amd.com/support/driver.html
Summary     : X Window display driver for the ATI graphics accelerators
Description :
Display driver files for the ATI RADEON (9500 and later), MOBILITY RADEON (M10 and later), RADEON XPRESS IGP and FireGL (Z1 and later) series of graphics accelerators.  This package provides 2D display drivers, precompiled kernel modules, kernel module build environment, control panel source coude and hardware accelerated OpenGL.          
Distribution: (none)

and this is how the driver performs the Linux display (for benchamark purpose?):

fgl_glxgears

Using GLX_SGIX_pbuffer
1440 frames in 5.0 seconds = 288.000 FPS
1545 frames in 5.0 seconds = 309.000 FPS
1552 frames in 5.0 seconds = 310.400 FPS
1547 frames in 5.0 seconds = 309.400 FPS
1544 frames in 5.0 seconds = 308.800 FPS
1554 frames in 5.0 seconds = 310.800 FPS
1510 frames in 5.0 seconds = 302.000 FPS
1531 frames in 5.0 seconds = 306.200 FPS
1552 frames in 5.0 seconds = 310.400 FPS
1551 frames in 5.0 seconds = 310.200 FPS

I also put the log of my installation process so everyone can have use of it.

Have fun!

Click to Play

These are additional features on plasmoid-networkmanagement:

• Network interface information, and
• The traffick plotter

See how beautiful the free software is.. Have fun!

A short note.

The KDE Release Team has decided to make a KDE SC 4.4.5 release. So please remember to continue backporting your bug fixes into the 4.4 branch.

The Schedule:
June 24th, 2010: Tag KDE 4.4.5
June 29th, 2010: Release KDE 4.4.5

Click to Play

Yet another KDE 4 Network Management screencast.

Go to plasmoid-networkmanagement to see more details, and read this tutorial to know how to enable mobile connection in openSUSE 11.2.

Enjoy!

Click to Play

About

If you already added the KKUD repositories like i did, then you would be able to try plasmoid-networkmanagement immediately.

For someone who lives under black-rock so do not know what plasmoid-networkmanagement is, then sebas’s will give you good description about it.

Probably this (bleeding-edge) KDE 4 Plasma Widget is not (yet) stable as KNetworkManager, but it is truely worth-trying and has (imho) many improvements in usability area.

So, let it work for you, and makes your life goes easier..

Install plasmoid-networkmanagement

1. Go to YaST Software Management (or use: zypper install plasmoid-metworkmanagement as root user)
2. Find package called: plasmoid-networkmanagement
3. then click Accept to install it

You’ll probably see that YaST Software Management wants to remove package named: NetworkManager-kde4, so let it delete the uneeded package.

Use plasmoid-networkmanagement

1. Make sure the desktop widget is unlocked,
2. Add Widgets from the Plasma Toolbox (or click right mouse button on desktop),
3. Find the Network Management widget, then drag it to desktop
4. Move it to the Panel near system tray (if you like it).

The icon will probably look ugly on the Panel, i think it is bug, but this will disappear right after the connection is establised.

5. Configure the connections like it was using KNetworkManager, it is easy, just click the icon, then click: Manage Connections.
6. If it is ready, then choose the available connections.

Have fun!

I posted an early screenshot of KDE 4.5.0 Beta 1 three days ago, and now we can have the official packages with many improvements that i can feel like:

1. KDE System Tray which is really awesome (i think it is intended to beat Windows 7’s system tray original-behavior).



2. The new look-and feel of new desktop (the default window decoration and its color).
3. The stability improvements.

These are other new feaures from the official announcement:

A reworked notification area. Thanks to the new, D-Bus-based protocol that replaces the old “system tray”, a uniform look and consistent interaction scheme can now be guaranteed across applications and toolkits.

KWin-Tiling makes it possible to automatically place windows next to each other, employing the window management paradigm also found in window managers such as Ion. Advanced graphical effects, such as blurring the background of translucent windows make for a more pleasurable and usable experience.



Users that prefer WebKit above the KHTML rendering engine currently used in Konqueror, KDE’s web browser now can install the WebKit component and switch Konqueror to use WebKit as rendering engine for web sites. The WebKit component for Konqueror is available from KDE’s Extragear repository, is based on the popular KPart component technology and fully integrates with password storage, content-blocking and other features users already know and love in Konqueror.



A special focus of this release cycle is the stability of the software delivered with KDE SC 4.5. While there are many exciting new features, developers have spent considerable amounts of time finishing off features and polishing those that haven’t come to full bloom yet.

How-to Install it?

1. Add the KDE4-Unstable Repositories

Add these, KKUD (KDE:/KDE4:/Unstable:/Desktop/ ), three repositories through zypper-tool or YaST Software Repository, here’s the result:

ls /etc/zypp/repos.d/KKU*
/etc/zypp/repos.d/KKUC.repo  /etc/zypp/repos.d/KKUD.repo  /etc/zypp/repos.d/KKUP.repo

grep baseurl /etc/zypp/repos.d/KKU*
/etc/zypp/repos.d/KKUC.repo:baseurl=http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/KDE4:/Community/openSUSE_11.2_KDE4_UNSTABLE_Desktop
/etc/zypp/repos.d/KKUD.repo:baseurl=http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/KDE4:/UNSTABLE:/Desktop/openSUSE_11.2/
/etc/zypp/repos.d/KKUP.repo:baseurl=http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/KDE4:/Playground/openSUSE_11.2_KDE4_UNSTABLE_Desktop

2. Refresh the Repositories

su -c 'zypper refresh'
Password:
Retrieving repository 'KKUC' metadata [done]
Repository 'KKUC' is up to date.
Retrieving repository 'KKUD' metadata [done]
Building repository 'KKUD' cache [done]
Retrieving repository 'KKUP' metadata [done]
Repository 'KKUP' is up to date.

3. Install the KDE SC 4.5.0 Beta 1 (4.4.80) Packages

su -c 'zypper dup -r KKUD -r KKUC -r KKUP'
Password:Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...
Computing distribution upgrade...

The following packages are going to be upgraded:
akonadi-runtime akregator ark blinken blogilo bomber bovo cantor choqok clucene-core digikam digikam-lang dolphin dragonplayer
filelight google-gadgets google-gadgets-qt gtk2 gtk2-32bit gtk2-lang gwenview juk k3b k3b-lang kaddressbook kaffeine kalarm
kalgebra kanagram kapman katomic kbattleship kblackbox kblocks kbluetooth kbounce kbreakout kbruch kcalc kcharselect kcm_gtk
kcm_touchpad kcolorchooser kcron kde4-audio-thumbnail-plugin kde4-filesystem kde4-kgreeter-plugins kde4-odf-thumbnail-plugin
kdeaccessibility4 kdeadmin4 kdeartwork4 kdeartwork4-desktopthemes kdeartwork4-emoticons kdeartwork4-screensaver kdebase4
kdebase4-libkonq kdebase4-nsplugin kdebase4-openSUSE kdebase4-openSUSE-lang kdebase4-runtime kdebase4-runtime-branding-upstream
kdebase4-session kdebase4-workspace kdebase4-workspace-branding-upstream kdebase4-workspace-google-gadgets
kdebase4-workspace-ksysguardd kdeedu4 kdegames4 kdegames4-carddecks-default kdegames4-carddecks-other kdegraphics4 kdelibs4
kdelibs4-core kdemultimedia4 kdenetwork4 kdenetwork4-filesharing kdepasswd kdepim4 kdepim4-runtime kdepim4-wizards kdepimlibs4
kdesdk4 kdeutils4 kdevelop4 kdevelop4-lang kdevplatform kdevplatform-lang kdewebdev4 kdf kdialog kdiamond kdm
kdm-branding-upstream kdnssd keditbookmarks kepas kfilereplace kfind kfloppy kfourinline kgamma kgeography kget kgoldrunner kgpg
khangman kig killbots kimagemapeditor kio_audiocd kio_iso kio_kamera kio-locate kio_network kio_sysinfo
kio_sysinfo-branding-openSUSE kipi-plugins kipi-plugins-acquireimage kipi-plugins-lang kiriki kiten kjots kjumpingcube klettres
klines klinkstatus kmag kmahjongg kmail kmines kmix kmousetool kmouth kmplot knemo knetwalk knetworkconf knode knotes kollision
kolourpaint kompare konqueror konqueror-plugins konqueror-plugins-lang konquest konsole kontact konversation konversation-lang
kopete korganizer kover kpat krename kreversi krfb kruler krusader krusader-doc ksame kscd kshisen ksirk ksnapshot kspaceduel
ksquares kstars kstars-data ksudoku ksystemlog ktimer ktimetracker ktorrent ktorrent-lang ktouch ktron kttsd ktuberling kturtle
kubrick kupdateapplet kupdateapplet-packagekit kuser kvkbd kwalletmanager kwebkitpart kwikdisk kwin kwordquiz kwrite lensfun
libakonadi4 libakonadiprotocolinternals1 libattica0 libepub0 libgpod4 libgpod4-lang libgpod-tools libical0 libindi0 libiodbc3
libkcddb4 libkcompactdisc4 libkdcraw8 libkde4 libkdecore4 libkdeedu4 libkdegames4 libkdepim4 libkdepimlibs4 libkdevplatform0
libkexiv2-8 libkipi7 libkonq5 libksane0 libksuseinstall1 liblastfm0 liblensfun0 liblqr-1-0 libmolletnetwork4 libmsn0_3
libnova-0_12-2 libopencv2 libphonon4 libpolkit-qt-1-0 libqca2 libqjson0 libqt4 libqt4-debuginfo libqt4-qt3support libqt4-sql
libqt4-sql-mysql libqt4-sql-sqlite libqt4-x11 libQtWebKit4 libsoprano4 libstrigi0 libtag-extras1 lokalize lskat marble
marble-data NetworkManager-kde4 NetworkManager-kde4-lang NetworkManager-kde4-libs NetworkManager-openvpn-kde4
NetworkManager-pptp-kde4 NetworkManager-vpnc-kde4 okteta okular oxygen-icon-theme oxygen-icon-theme-scalable pango pango-32bit
parley phonon plasma-addons plasma-addons-marble plasma-theme-aya plasmoid-quickaccess polkit-kde-1 python-cups python-kde4
python-kdebase4 python-qt4 python-sip qt4-qtscript qtcurve-kde4 rsibreak ruby-kde4 shared-desktop-ontologies skanlite skrooge
skrooge-lang skrooge-libs soprano soprano-backend-virtuoso speedcrunch step strigi superkaramba sweeper taglib virtuoso-drivers
virtuoso-server yakuake

The following packages are going to be downgraded:
amarok kmymoney koffice2 koffice2-karbon koffice2-kchart koffice2-kplato koffice2-kpresenter koffice2-krita koffice2-kspreadkoffice2-kthesaurus koffice2-kword libssh4 phonon-backend-gstreamer-0_10 phonon-backend-xine rekonq

The following packages are going to be reinstalled:
kbackup kde4-print-manager libGTLCore0_6 libOpenCTL0_6 libOpenShiva0_6 libqtgtl0_0 llvm webkamThe following package is going to change architecture:
NetworkManager-kde4-lang  noarch -> x86_64

The following packages are going to change vendor:
clucene-core         openSUSE -> obs://build.opensuse.org/KDE
google-gadgets       openSUSE -> obs://build.opensuse.org/KDE
google-gadgets-qt    openSUSE -> obs://build.opensuse.org/KDE
gtk2                 openSUSE -> obs://build.opensuse.org/KDE
gtk2-32bit           openSUSE -> obs://build.opensuse.org/KDE
gtk2-lang            openSUSE -> obs://build.opensuse.org/KDE
knetworkconf         openSUSE -> obs://build.opensuse.org/KDE
koffice2             obs://build.opensuse.org/KDE:KDE4:Playground -> obs://build.opensuse.org/KDE
koffice2-karbon      obs://build.opensuse.org/KDE:KDE4:Playground -> obs://build.opensuse.org/KDE
koffice2-kchart      obs://build.opensuse.org/KDE:KDE4:Playground -> obs://build.opensuse.org/KDE
koffice2-kplato      obs://build.opensuse.org/KDE:KDE4:Playground -> obs://build.opensuse.org/KDE
koffice2-kpresenter  obs://build.opensuse.org/KDE:KDE4:Playground -> obs://build.opensuse.org/KDE
koffice2-krita       obs://build.opensuse.org/KDE:KDE4:Playground -> obs://build.opensuse.org/KDE
koffice2-kspread     obs://build.opensuse.org/KDE:KDE4:Playground -> obs://build.opensuse.org/KDE
koffice2-kthesaurus  obs://build.opensuse.org/KDE:KDE4:Playground -> obs://build.opensuse.org/KDE
koffice2-kword       obs://build.opensuse.org/KDE:KDE4:Playground -> obs://build.opensuse.org/KDE
libical0             openSUSE -> obs://build.opensuse.org/KDE
pango                openSUSE -> obs://build.opensuse.org/KDE
pango-32bit          openSUSE -> obs://build.opensuse.org/KDE
python-cups          openSUSE -> obs://build.opensuse.org/KDE

287 packages to upgrade, 15 to downgrade, 9 new, 8 to reinstall, 4 to remove, 20  to change vendor, 1 to change arch.
Overall download size: 378.7 MiB. After the operation, additional 30.3 MiB will be used.
Continue? [y/n/?] (y): y

Type: y to proceed.

4. Please Shit-Back and Relax

It’s coming to you.. If it is finished, then:

5. Restart the Desktop

Luckily, openSUSE user will recieve many updates from upstream and patches from openSUSE-KDE Team (developer), so the user will have KDE SC 4.5.0 Betas/RCs more usable and (good-enough) stable for daily uses, check this out.

Hat-off to hundreds contrbutors who makes this many improvements happen.

Good job!