OpenSuSE 12.1 quirks

There are some issues that I want to track.

This post will keep an updated list.

• When using VMware player 4.0.1 with a VM (XP) that is sitting on a NTFS filesystem, the system will be very unresponsive after a few minutes.
  Solution: When you move the VM to an EXT4 partition, everything works.
• XBMC shows green dots or static during playback.
  Solution: Change render method from "auto" to "Basic Shaders" or "Software"
• XBMC crashes at startup when using Gnome Shell.
  Solution: Start in windowed mode and switch to fullscreen.
• When running from SSD the system freezes for a few seconds during heavy I/O (when copying files between SSD folders). When the I/O operation is finished, everything returns back to normal.
  Disabling Gnome Shell (and forcing fallback mode) seems to resolve this problem.
  Solution: set io scheduler to "noop" and not "cfq"
  also, add these options to your ext4 mount options for root volume in  /etc/fstab: noatime,discard
• The crypttab "timeout" option does not work.
  Solution: Put your options in the 4th column and thus replace the second "none" keyword.
  before: encr_dev_name encryp_dev_disk none none
  after:    encr_dev_name encryp_dev_disk none luks,timeout=5
  see... very easy
• XFCE does not allow scanning when installing HP device using HPLIB
  solution: install the Xsane package!