Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3964 mails)

[Johan Nielsen <yep@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

That's what it is all about.

If they all supplied drivers/information for their equipment then things would 
be a hell of a lot easier.

People developing for linux could be way more productive ;-)

Johan

Lørdag 20 november 2004 01:42 skrev Doug McGarrett:
> Hello, all--and probably goodbye--
>
> I know you have been helpful thruout all this time--
> I've been with SuSE since 7.1, but I've had it.
> The mail program (KMail) seems to forget its
> SMPT information, it also forgot its screen
> mode, now having to click twice on a message,
> and then having it come up in a little quarter-
> screen window.  I've never been able to get any kind
> of sound, much less video, even tho the built-in
> noises work.  Open Office will no longer open.
> I don't know where I go from here--
> back to XP, for a while, I guess.  I have a copy of
> Free-BSD, which I've never tried, but I guess I
> will.  (9.1 crashed in such fashion that nothing
> would revive it.  Before then, 8.2 gradually
> deteriorated to unusability.  9.2 has _already_
> degraded to unusability.)  This is a fairly modern
> machine, and XP runs perfectly on it.  I guess I will
> be watching for a few days, while you all flame me,
> but enough is enough.  Thank you for the help you have
> offered over the years.
>
> --doug