Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4570 mails)

[Paul Alfille <palfille@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 25 November 2005 11:46 pm, Michael W Cocke wrote:
> On Fri, 25 Nov 2005 23:29:10 -0500, you wrote:
> >Well, one of them is a lemon.
> >
> >The Asus motherboard was a struggle even with Suse 9.3
> >
> >It sounds promising, AMD_64, integrated wireless, SATA, gigabit ethernet,
> >sound. nVidia card to round it out.
> >
> >For Suse 9.3, upgrading the bios to 1008 really helped. (1009 breaks it
> >again). Quite stable.
> >
> >Suse 10 is difficult to install. Can't read the DVD consistently. Even
> >installing from the network is problematic. Critical packages won't
> > install. Graphics detection segfaults. Yast segfaults. Online upgrade
> > crashes. Basically unusable.
> >
> >I'd blame the hardware, if 9.3 weren't working so well. What's up with 10?
> >
> >Paul Alfille
>
> SuSE 10 is running on several Asus P4B800 and P4P800 boards here.  No
> problems.  9.3 is on some too.  I've never had any problems with SuSE
> and ASUS, but I stick to the models with a track record.  I tried an
> SE once and it didn't even work well with windows... <shrug>.
>
> Mike-
>
Thanks, Mike. How does this help except that all Asus boards aren't a problem? 
Just the one in front of me.