Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4288 mails)

[Joshua Lee <yid@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Saturday 04 May 2002 08:39 am, Peter Taylor wrote:
>   It never occured to me that the "nv" driver might be the problem.  For
> one thing, the "nv" driver (perhaps an older version?) works fine under Red
> Hat 7.2, and has for a co-worker with purportedly identical hardware for

The "nv" drivers are stubs to the SVGA drivers, they are not meant to be 
anything other than an interim solution when running an nvidia card.

>   On Friday morning, I gave up.  I had spent a week trying to get a usable
> SuSE 8.0 system installed, without success, so I got the Red Hat 7.2 CDs
> back out, and within an hour everything was working except for the wheel on
> my wheel mouse and read access to my NTFS partitions.
>
>   Maybe in a few weeks I will try again with the more enlightened
> perspective that the installation CDs contain not so much an OS as an
> invitation to download one.

If you run Red Hat's up2date, you'll get a whole bunch of stuff to download 
too. In order to run a secure and non-buggy OS with so many programs and a 
certain level of complexity, updating one's programs is a neccesity; 
whichever distribution you happen to be running. In fact, it borders on 
irresponsability considering how easily one can be attacked by crackers if 
one never updates one's software if you're connected to the internet and 
insist on running every piece of software as the CD-ROMs shipped them.
-- 
We have only two things to worry about:  That things will never get
back to normal, and that they already have.