Jerry Houston wrote:
It's time to start on system #3 now, based on what I've learned from updating the others. My Toshiba laptop is about to become a Linux machine again. :-)
Boy, was that ever a case of speaking too soon. :-(
On the laptop, KDE4 is a true pain. The touchpad (ALPS) is recognized by Sax2, but it's dysfunctional, to say the least. I tried to install madwifi, but the published "one click" link ends up without the
On Sat June 21 2008 10:58:42 pm Jerry Houston wrote: metadata
needed to identify the rpm. Going to the madwifi site, I got the driver installed (I think), but no luck connecting to my router. This all on a machine that used to work flawlessly with the touchpad and Atheros wireless with 10.3/KDE3.
I'm going to add KDE3 to that machine and try a session with that. If I can get things working, they may still keep working for a KDE4 session. That, or I'll just continue using KDE3 on that machine. It sure doesn't like the new bits very much.
Anyone else have different luck with a Toshiba Satellite laptop? I have installed openSuSE 11.0 w/KDE 4 only on my Toshiba A135- S4427 and the only problem was with the KNetManager with my Intel 3945, but once I switch to the Traditional, it has been smooth sailing every since.
I fail to see all this negativity being said here. No one is forcing anyone to install KDE 4 over 3.5 and it is certainly not to me as a very casual user being pushed over 3.5.9. I understand the plain English of the choice and don't take the order of listing as the order of recommended choice. To all of those saying it has been on the lists for months, I have read them all and still chose to go with KDE4 as my Desktop -- my choice and fail to see any of this ranting going on here. Jeez, it is stuff like this I think that gives Linux a bad name to begin with. Goodnight, I am tired of this thread. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org