On Saturday 03 June 2006 11:04 am, jfweber@gilweber.com wrote:
into electronic streams flowing thru the cosmos On Tuesday 30 May 2006
5:58 pm, Bruce Marshall wrote:
I have an IBM Thinkpad X30 with a SmartLink winmodem inside of it. This has always been supported by SuSE. The previous release I was running was 9.3.
10.1 has a lot of SmartLink stuff on the DVD (retail) but only for a USB SmartLink modem. I've just spent about 3 hours trying to figure out why there is no 'slamr' module provided but I can't find one.
New releases are supposed to get easier to install. Not 10.1
So, does that mean that 10.1 base and, gui and, desktop product etc didn't install, or that your winmodem hardware support may be phasing out ? Other than this driver, did anything else fail to install ?
Oh my.... your question comes just at the right time. I've been running with 10.1 for a week now.... fighting problems all the way, and I've just now finally given up spending any more time on it. I am back on 10.0 and I was about to write the final chapter on my throes with 10.1. One of the major problems I have had is with video support. (which works fine in 10.0 BTW) I have a 20 inch Viewsonic VP201B LCD monitor running on an ATI card with a DVI cable. I don't think there is anything too strange about that setup. As I say, it worked fine on 10.0 and if I recall, it also worked on 9.3. On install of 10.1, I was unable to get any resolution to work, other than 1280x1024 when the monitor wants to run in 1600 mode. At 1280 it looks really crappy and it is slow. I spent 3 days trying to get to 1600 mode and every test I ran (using Sax2 or ginned up Xorg.con files) the entire system would hang and it was hard reset time. After three days of trying to get it to work, I saw that ATI had updated their drivers and decided (even though there were dependency problems) that I had nothing to lose by trying them. I soon realized that the ATI install wanted to start from an xorg.conf that was already set to 1600 but I didn't have one. I had to run Sax2 in low res mode on a 1280 screen in order to create the proper settings. Finally I got the ATI drivers to work - most of the time. The reason I am finally quitting on 10.1 is that whenever I reboot, I usually have to boot to init 3 and erase .Xauthority and .ICEauthority and a few other pieces of the graphics world. If I don't, I get the hard reset hang again. Today, even that approach doesn't work. End of the road. Also along the way have been problems: 1) Missing SLAMR module for a winmodem in my laptop. (2 days of effort to solve that one) 2) Opera under 10.1 now segfaults no matter what version you attempt to run (problem with QT? Don't think so because even the static version won't run) 3) Too many YAST and other utility tool problems to mention. 4) Sound works but sounds pretty rough. Other minor annoyances..... I think 10.1 had too many changes (software update mgmt, removal of non-gpl modules, and install tools) that it had a problem for almost everyone.... Feels good to be back on 10.0. I'm not one to give up on problems, but I know when I'm wasting my time and after 9 days of effort, I've wasted enough. -- 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