SuSE 7.3 with new iBook: experience
Anyone's interested in SuSE 7.3 prof. for PowerPC? I've one distribution for sale... Last week I tried to install SuSE on my iBook and after several tries I managed to install it that it worked. Also I'm not satisfied at all. Some things don't work as I wished. Yast2 detects the graphics adapter and X11 works fine, but Yast2 does not detect the network adapter and the modem correctly. Yast1 detects the network adapter and th modem but in further stepes it wasn't possible to setup X11. Using KDE as user seems to run without any problem but when I touched the keyboard layout in the control center I wasn't able to use the keyboard any more, even when I selected "mac" as the keyboard layout I couldn't type one character. Besides that the button for ejecting the CD drive doesn't work at all. And I didn't manage to use the CD/DVD drive for playing audio CDs... Then I didn't find a solution for switching off the trackpad-click-functionalitiy, I just wanted to use the trackpad for moving, not for clicking... During the several installtion processes I had to insert five from eight CDs; why didn't SuSE copy all the CDs on one DVD? The konfiguration of "lilo" ended with an error message like "Warning: couldn't write boot sector - continue with installation?". I continued and run "lilo" manually. Anyway, I rolled my system back to MacOS9/X due it's easy installtion and easy handling, especially the easy switching of different networking profiles... I'll try to find missing software somewhere out there in the web. Any suggestions for a powerful scheduler/addressbok application like M$Outlook? Right now I'm using the Palm software package under MacOS 9; well, it works but it has no built in e-mailer... As I said last week I offered to write an installation howto for running SuSE 7.3 on a new iBook without having any MacOS installed. Still interested? I'm not but I'd write one if you like; but it can take a while... -- Regards, Wolfgang
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Schmitt, Wolfgang (BKA-IT22)