12/17/01 2:43:11 PM, Jeff Boyd
This weekend I took the plunge! I scrubbed XP off of my laptop (HP Pavilion XH485) and installed SuSE 7.3. I have been goofing with RedHat
for years but this is my first SuSE experience. It impressed me so much that I I decided to make it my primary OS.
I have a couple of things yet to solve... How do I get my scroll wheel
of the mouse to work? Also I need to know what a good solution would be to get the DVD drive to play DVDs. I have been looking at Ogle.. but have not tried it yet. I also noticed that 3d acceleration is not enabled for the video card (Trident Cyberblade 8 meg). Is this possible?
Anyway- good bye Microsoft...
JB
For that laptop with the Cyberblade your best bet is to use the VESA driver.
Note: Use the vesa driver itself, NOT the Framebuffer! (unless you are a masochist)
To select the VESA driver run Sax2 from the console and select VESA in the Drivers section.
For the wheelmouse check that you have the 'imwheel' package installed.
If it's an IMPS/2 type mouse you can run:
Sax2 -t imps/2 -n /dev/psaux
to configure it.
Good luck,
Tim Harrell