On Mon, 2006-06-12 at 13:19 +0200, Per Jessen wrote:
Andy Goss wrote:
Further down the track, in hardware configuration, the graphics card entry read "no proposal", and an error was flagged. But as the installer seemed to have no problems with my graphics card I went ahead.
Do you have more than one graphics card in that system? I hit a problem recently when I had two ATI Rage IID in the same box - and I also got the "no proposal". (see https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=177621). I then ran SAX2 separately afterwards, specifying which of the two cards I wanted to use, and it worked fine.
Problem 1: The installation finished, but instead of KDE I was presented with a command line login, presumably due to the graphics card error. Somewhat cheesed off, I rebooted.
Yes, your X-system was not set up at all.
Problem 2: in spite of the appearance of having put GRUB in hda3, the install had evidently put it in the MBR of hda, wiping the previous GRUB that booted my everyday FC4 on hdc. Not Nice.
Worth reporting as a bug. I don't use GRUB, but have sofar not had any problems with lilo in this respect. Given that GRUB is the default, I'm surprised to hear of any bugs in that area at all.
Having rebuilt GRUB I am back in FC4. I had intended to move to SUSE 10.1 instead of FC5, but now I am considering Kubuntu Dapper, which successfully upgraded from Breezy online.
You've had one significant and one very minor problem and now you're considering alternatives. I'm a long time SUSE user - it would me take a lot more than that to start considering alternatives, but you're certainly right in being critical.
/Per Jessen, Zürich
Thanks Per. My FC4 only sees one graphics card, and does not appear to have sax2, but I will follow this up as the symptoms are identical. I'll check bugzilla for the GRUB problem and file a bug if appropriate. I have been considering a number of distros to replace FC4 as a long term working desktop, SUSE 10.1 and Kubuntu Dapper are the finalists. Both are recent releases, both have stellar ambitions. My inclination is towards SUSE for the long haul as it has an excellent reputation and has built up a loyal and knowledgeable user base, so I shall not be giving up yet. Andy Goss -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com