Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-edu (243 mails)

["Alistair Williamson" <alistair_williamson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

My project is to set up a Linux file server for a school's 20 machine
windows 95/98/2k network (includes wireless nodes).

I have ordered SuSE 7.3 from Roger Whittaker, but have managed to acquire a
set of discs in advance of the ordered set.

I am initially trying to install SuSE on my Compaq Armada M700 laptop
(Pentium II 400 Mhz 128 Mb RAM 3 Gb h/d for Linux). to try and get a bit of
experience before trying to install the server.

When I install SuSE, the process seems to go OK, at the end of it I am
presented with the KDE desktop. However, when I reboot, the loading process
crashes the computer when the windows manager is being loaded (That's what
it says on the KDE start-up logo). I had thought it was because my screen
wasn't directly supported, so I have selected VESA and the offered colour
depth and desktop size and of course it does work initially.

I have trawled through the books and all the HOWTO's that I thought were
relevant, but I can't find anything to help. I have tried the laptop with
both RedHat and Mandrake - and it works fine in both Gnome and KDE.

I would appreciate any direct help, or pointers to documentation that may
solve the problem for me.

Many thanks,

Alistair Williamson

alistair_williamson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx