On 2012/02/12 09:00 (GMT-0600) Billie Walsh composed:
In answer to a question Felix asked. The chipset is all ATI except for the network controller, that is a realteck. The box is a basic Windows box so of course the video controller is on the main board and uses shared memory. It's really very plane vanilla as computers go. I bought it off the shelf at Wal Mart almost ten years ago on a "Black Friday" sale. If the computer was all bleeding edge hardware I would expect to have issue installing/running. This thing is very nearly an antique so it should be very well supported.
Good logic, but the problem is devs who on occasion decide to completely rewrite basic components without any thought given to the march of hardware development. Without those of us in the real world still using perfectly good old hardware testing development versions and reporting broken or missing support from their rewrites, most have no idea what they've done. This is why I do what I do. I have over 30 functioning puters, none of which are less than 5 years old. I install openSUSE Factory on about a dozen of them, representing a decent cross section of old hardware that should still be viable with recent and upcoming releases, and file bugs when I find things that used to work work no longer. But, ATI 200 is not in my inventory, and AFAICT, was never a big seller, nothing like Intel onboard video. All my ATI is on discrete video cards.
Along the thread somewhere someone suggested using text mode installation. I did get that to work. However, it did not detect my Kubuntu partition for inclusion in Grub. At my skill level I have absolutely no idea how to add that partition into the Grub setup. [ 1Tbyte hard drive partitioned into two 500gig drives. One for Windows and one for Kubuntu. ] It was a bit disappointing that Kubuntu wasn't detected.
This is another victim of major app rewrites. *buntu switched to a completely overhauled Grub2 early on. openSUSE so far has stuck with Legacy Grub, because it works for most, and resources have been unavailable for the _many_ changes required in the supporting cast to make the switchover. openSUSE didn't find *buntu because it hasn't been trained yet to recognize its signature. In the mean time, getting *buntu into the openSUSE Grub menu requires no more than adding two short lines to a plain text config file (with any plain text editor), /boot/grub/menu.lst: title Ubuntu chainloader (hd0,1)+1 would do it if the buntu partition is the second partition on the first HD. title Ubuntu chainloader (hd1,0)+1 would do it if the buntu partition is the first partition on the second HD. Since you got text mode install to work, this should be all that's left to do to have both openSUSE and *buntu and Windows available to you in your initial boot menu.
Another suggestion was to try another keyboard/mouse. I did try a USB keyboard. It did absolutely nothing. Even hitting the "Numlock" key did nothing. No Numlock light or anything. Caps Lock key, same thing. Hitting "Escape" had no effect either. It's like there is no keyboard attached to the computer. No power to the keyboard, nothing.
Again, there is a mini menu at the bottom of the initial screen, and F5 would give you some options, one of which would probably make the GUI installer's keyboard and mouse work.
The biggest problem is probably me. I have no desire to have to dig into the guts of an OS. I just want something I can pop in a disk, load it and be off and running. For now Kubuntu does just that for me.
For now, but Kubuntu's last release is about two months away. Canonical pulled its plug last week. -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org