On Monday 05 March 2001 01:32, you wrote:
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Glad you liked you liked it. Its defiantly the best Distro out there. most others will be hard pushed now.
Do not forget the books. The Configuration part is cool, always wanted to use gpg :-). Now I am...
DEFINATELY!!! Don't pull a "Kreps" and arrogantly not read the configuration manuals that come with SuSE. Espeically 7.1 because so much has changed. Don't ASSuME anything! JLK
Although thats not to say there is not a lot of work out there still to do. But I find it fun.
Matt
On Sunday 04 March 2001 23:27, phantasm wrote:
I finally got my 7.1!!! I am soooo happy! I went to BestBuy which has 7.1 personal but still has professional on order, so I took the 49.99 rain check and went to CompUSA and got it for the 50.00$ I must say its been the best 50$ I have spent so far!!
I must first say that SuSE did a wonderful job! YaST2 is great, picked up most of my things right off, including setup of my network printer!
DVD Install went flawlessly and could not have been happier with it!
But I ran into a few problems with the CD Install which I will go over quicklike!
On first try when it tried to install the UDF package, it would lock the machine (CD #2) I had to manually remove that from the packages to get further in the install.
Later on the CD would spin repeatedly and just would not take CD #2 again... I checked Ctrl-Alt F8 to see what was going on and this showed...
hdc: cdrom_decode_status: error=0x34
: status=0x51 [ DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
Repeat the DriveReady error a few times and reset and repeat again. Finally it just gave up and asked for the 3rd CD and went on with the install. One of my 7.0 LiveEval CDs did that on my laptop before I did the install on that (Compaq 1220 Presario) I dunno the techs on either CDROM since its been so long since I got the laptop and installed the one in the desktop.
It recognized my onboard soundcard which was ok if I used it hehe, but didnt take my Ensoniq sound card and insisted it was a Sound Blaster of some sorts, I had to use alsaconf to get that to work.
My EtherExpress 16 NIC didnt detect either, but showed when I did the manual setup.
After that I had to install Enlightenment manually with yast on CD #2 cause KDE just dont float my boat (Sorry personal opinion there).
The XSetup was strange, It installed XFree 4.0.2 and I had no clue the XF86Config file was in /etc/X11/ and it threw me off, XaX2 did not take on my wheel mouse (generic) and I had to add the Option ZAxis.... to it to get it to work. looking at the /etc/XF86Config it didnt look like a 4.x.x conf file, and of course didnt take any change it made to it. I had to use xf86config4 to find the /etc/X11 config directory.
SaX2 also bungled a bit on the resolution... Gave me a decent size at first then the screen would fuxx (static like) when I moved the mouse clicked windows etc. SO I dropped the resolution down one size and that fixed it. Usage of xf86config4 manually to configure everything gave me a GREAT resolution and allowed me to fix my mouse, no pointer section from SaX2 for my mouse at all.
After adding the ZAxis and Buttons lines everything is working great so far.
Granted I had fun working through these small obsticals, and really love the new changes, especially the lilo boot screen, that just ROCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!
2.4 works great, no problems and took like a dream even on an upgrade!
The manuals are great, the pin is a wonderful addition to my vest at work (I got about 3 SuSE stickers on my name badge LOL). It was worth every penny of my 50$
Just to think I was feeling left out in the dark a few days ago.
Thank you SuSE!!!!!!!!! Robert Davies
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