On Saturday 20 November 2004 14:50, Basil Chupin wrote:
Doug McGarrett wrote:
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
I gave up when v9.1 came out.
I was really looking forward to 9.1 consdering how well Suse was progressing since I started using it from version 7.1 but was very disappointed with 9.1 (you will need to go back in time and read in the archives what p***** me off about 9.1). In a way I was anticipating problems with Suse 9.1 because (as I said in one of my msgs) it had become an American company and bean-counters and sales gnomes take over where intelligence once ruled.
So I switched to the OS which I previously only used on rare occasions and have had not a single problem now for, what, some seven months. Everything running like clockwork.
If you want to try out another Linux distro try Knoppix (latest is 3.6 I think- at least this is what I have).
It recognised everything I've got, including the TV tuner card. And I can access all my HDs' partitions and DVD ROM and burner.
Suse 9.2 Live Evaluation doesn't even activate my sound card, and as far as my tv tuner card is concerned 9.2 is totally oblivious to the fact that I have a tv card installed. And it shows that I have no HDs or a DVD ROM or burner.
By me responding here you can see that I still keep track of what is going on with Suse in the hope that maybe in the future it will come good again and I'll be able to go back to my favourite (well, not at the moment) Linux distro.
Cheers.
-- Douglass's Law: Clutter tends to expand to fill the space available for its retention.
I got fed up with myriad of problems as well after about 3 re-installs, with varying different faults, but I still had the same problems with USB sticks as what I had in 9.1. So I've installed Slackware 10, and not only is it much quicker, everything works! So II'll be sticking with Slack in future. Richard G. -- Registered Linux User: 256848 Failure isn't an option -- it comes bundled with microsoft windows