Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1325 mails)

[Jim Henderson <hendersj@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 02 May 2009 16:00:54 -0700, Randall R Schulz wrote:

> > Why not try a live CD, e.g. Knoppix or one of the dozens of others?
> > This is a great way to start to sort out whether a suspected failure is
> > hardware related.   http://livecdlist.com
>
> How is that? How do you know it's not the same driver software that's
> included with whatever version of openSUSE he's running?

If the problem still exists with a liveCD then you're right, it tells you 
nothing.

But if the problem doesn't still exist with a liveCD, then you have 
learned that it's not hardware but a driver issue instead.

Jim

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