On Saturday 30 November 2002 01:17 pm, Ali Naddaf wrote:
Howard,
If you feel more comfortable with Windows, please consider switching back. After all, variety is the spice of life and some prefer Windows to Linux and some Linux to Windows and neither is right nor wrong; these are personal preferences. If Linux is not working for you, the right thing for you is to go back and use Windows.
This mailing list is for asking technical questions and finding answers and has served well for many users. If you have particular technical questions about SuSE Linux, feel free to post them and the kind people on this list will try to help you as much as they can; I doubt anything can be achived by the type of complaints that you had in your mail; those questions belong somewhere else.
Have fun and enjoy life.
1. How do I straighten out the mess that has some how screwed up my ability to use the two cdroms I have (DVD and HP CD-RW)? I have a DVD player, and an HP CD burner. Both on the second channel of the ide controller. The DVD ROM is the master, which would make it /dev/hdc and the burner slave, /dev/hdd. the burner shows up as /dev/sr0 ( which I believe is ide-scsi channel 1) But, for some reason if I manually set me CD player to use /dev/sr0 and put a CD in the dvd ROM it plays!!! So I change the cdrecorder to point to sr1, now I can't burn CDs!!! -- See Ya' Howard Coles Jr. John 3:16! "The act of faith is the obedience of the understanding to God revealing, and the product of that is the obedience of the will to God commanding." Matthew Henry, on Romans 1:5
Howard, Lets start from the beginning. Open YaST and go to Hardware -> Hardware Info. Over there, we should be able to figure out what device is located where. Once it probes the hardware, you'll see a list of hardware. Choose the CDROM branch, and see what devices it reports. You should be able to see both your DVD and your CD-RW there. If you go further down in each of the two branches, you should be able to see the device names; that should tell us what is where. Please do so and let me/us know what it says. Then we will take it from there. Hope this helps, Ali. On Saturday 30 November 2002 15:39, Howard Coles Jr. wrote:
On Saturday 30 November 2002 01:17 pm, Ali Naddaf wrote:
Howard,
If you feel more comfortable with Windows, please consider switching back. After all, variety is the spice of life and some prefer Windows to Linux and some Linux to Windows and neither is right nor wrong; these are personal preferences. If Linux is not working for you, the right thing for you is to go back and use Windows.
This mailing list is for asking technical questions and finding answers and has served well for many users. If you have particular technical questions about SuSE Linux, feel free to post them and the kind people on this list will try to help you as much as they can; I doubt anything can be achived by the type of complaints that you had in your mail; those questions belong somewhere else.
Have fun and enjoy life.
1. How do I straighten out the mess that has some how screwed up my ability to use the two cdroms I have (DVD and HP CD-RW)? I have a DVD player, and an HP CD burner. Both on the second channel of the ide controller. The DVD ROM is the master, which would make it /dev/hdc and the burner slave, /dev/hdd. the burner shows up as /dev/sr0 ( which I believe is ide-scsi channel 1) But, for some reason if I manually set me CD player to use /dev/sr0 and put a CD in the dvd ROM it plays!!! So I change the cdrecorder to point to sr1, now I can't burn CDs!!!
On Saturday 30 November 2002 17:02, Ali Naddaf wrote: [stuff cut]
On Saturday 30 November 2002 15:39, Howard Coles Jr. wrote:
On Saturday 30 November 2002 01:17 pm, Ali Naddaf wrote:
Howard,
If you feel more comfortable with Windows, please consider switching back. After all, variety is the spice of life and some prefer Windows to Linux and some Linux to Windows and neither is right nor wrong; these are personal preferences. If Linux is not working for you, the right thing for you is to go back and use Windows.
This mailing list is for asking technical questions and finding answers and has served well for many users. If you have particular technical questions about SuSE Linux, feel free to post them and the kind people on this list will try to help you as much as they can; I doubt anything can be achived by the type of complaints that you had in your mail; those questions belong somewhere else.
Have fun and enjoy life. [stuff cut]
Bummer of a response! I am a kernel developer for a major UNIX company, and I am having some issues with SuSE; they are not showstoppers because I know what I am doing, but the mass audience might be different. I switched to Linux some years back because I found it EASIER to use and configure than Windows. This siituation is beginning to reverse itself. Ins SuSE 8.1 I have had to manually enable my mouse wheel, something I am sure would have confused a newbee. Also E-term has been crippled, X-Files no longer works (returning tcl errors), and Xmcd won't get through configuration. I guess, Ai, that you are right about one thing; if I had wanted Windows, I would have bought Windows, but I chose Linux - because it is easier to use. John Dvorak, Steven J. Vaughn-Nichols and the various Linux distros have an important lesson ot learn; if left up to the bean counters we would all be running Visicalc on a 12 inch green monitor and a 286; it is the home user that drives innovation; make him happy and J. Random Pointy-Hair will follow slavishly like the sheep that he is! And other than these small problems SuSE 8.1 is a great product. mg
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I switched to Linux some years back because I found it EASIER to use and configure than Windows.
yup , me too.
This siituation is beginning to reverse itself. Ins SuSE 8.1 I have had to manually enable my mouse wheel, something I am sure would have confused a newbee.
whoah ! please name the offending mouse , I've managed to install 8.1 w/ a variety of meeses , all w/ wheels ( some w/ more than the standard number of buttons ) and a couple of wireless which were detected automagically on install of the OS.. all had their wheel working from the start. All in all, in spite of one or two tweeky things and perhaps a couple of hardware problems ( my wireless connection from the Zaurus to/thru Suse , has been weird as another message mentions ) Generally, once past the install and upgrade ( YOU required a leetle tap dance to get going ) It was easy peasy , including the recognition of a lot of stuff and configuration of same out of the box w/ no further , um , interference from me needed. -- j afterthought: Junk ... stuff we throw away. Stuff ... junk we keep.
On Saturday 30 November 2002 21:15, jfweber@bellsouth.net wrote:
This siituation is beginning to reverse itself. Ins SuSE 8.1 I have had to manually enable my mouse wheel, something I am sure would have confused a newbee.
whoah ! please name the offending mouse , I've managed to install 8.1 w/ a
Logitech 3 button with wheel. Turned out to be a combination of problems. I had to add a Option "buttons" "5" manually to it, and then it gets totally lost if I swich to a Virtual terminal and I have to exit X and restart it to get it working again. That is still not resolved. ----- Doug
Am Montag, 2. Dezember 2002 17:21 schrieb Doug Glenn:
On Saturday 30 November 2002 21:15, jfweber@bellsouth.net wrote:
This siituation is beginning to reverse itself. Ins SuSE 8.1 I have had to manually enable my mouse wheel, something I am sure would have confused a newbee.
whoah ! please name the offending mouse , I've managed to install 8.1 w/ a
Logitech 3 button with wheel.
Turned out to be a combination of problems. I had to add a Option "buttons" "5" manually to it, and then it gets totally lost if I swich to a Virtual terminal and I have to exit X and restart it to get it working again. That is still not resolved.
----- Doug Hi Doug, I am also using a Logitech Mouse man with 3 buttons a wheel and a thumb button in my SuSe8.1. When I installed SuSE it excepted my mouse right away. BTW is is a cordless and the Keyboard from Logitech is also cordless and they work fine. Wish I can help you on the tech part but I am a newbie myself.
Regards Robinson
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Ralph Robinson