Hi All, I've read many of your messages on this mailing list about peoples opinions on the latest SuSE Linux Profession 8.2 distribution and decided to share with all of you some of my thoughts on this topic. I've been using it for about a week now and have no major complaints thus far. Installation was a breeze on my home pc except for my scanner/printer. I have a epson printer which supports both USB and parallel port connections. The scanner won't work unless I hook it up through a printer device to the parallel port on my pc. It is a no name scanner which came with a single TWAIN driver floppy disk. Needless to say it does work pretty well on Windows XP Home. But no luck with SuSE. When my printer was hooked up through the scanner it too failed to work in SuSE environment. When I plugged it in to the USB port YaST 2 picked it up and I was up and printing in no time. I got the full version of 8.2, and so asked the folks at SuSE if they could help out with the scanner/printer configuration. The funny thing is I sent this request from YaST2 and they had a topic there for printers. I didn't get a response until 4 days later. The response said that printers were not covered with installation support. I was pretty disappointed by this. Why have "printers" as a choice when filling out the support request in YaST2 if it is not supported??? KDE 3.1 truly rocks overall but I found a glitch in the X server shipped with SuSE 8.2. When leaving my machine on but idle for a few hours my viewing area becomes "smaller" and I have to log out and then back in to recover it. I am using a Sony SDM-S71 LCD monitor. Anyway I thought it might have been a problem with KDE so I logged out and then logged into the gnome environment. I have not left since. I still have issues with the viewing area but it seems to have corrected itself when I came home today all by itself. Visiting the http://www.yesnetwork.com web site caused both Galean and Mozilla browsers to crash with a segmentation fault. Can anyone on this list please try to visit this site on their SuSE boxes and tell me if it crashes for them too? Finally, even though I selected all the major categories for software selection in YaST during the installation, it failed to install my favorite text editor; gvim. Vim was indeed installed but I had to manually find and install it from YaST2 after installation. I like the new YOU feature during installation so I can grab those patches before I even boot into SuSE for the first time. ~~Nick _______________________________________________ Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com The most personalized portal on the Web!
On Thursday 24 April 2003 19:59, Nicholas Parsons wrote:
Hi All,
I've read many of your messages on this mailing list about peoples opinions on the latest SuSE Linux Profession 8.2 distribution and decided to share with all of you some of my thoughts on this topic. (snip)
KDE 3.1 truly rocks overall but I found a glitch in the X server shipped with SuSE 8.2. When leaving my machine on but idle for a few hours my viewing area becomes "smaller" and I have to log out and then back in to recover it. I am using a Sony SDM-S71 LCD monitor. Anyway I thought it might have been a problem with KDE so I logged out and then logged into the gnome environment. I have not left since. I still have issues with the viewing area but it seems to have corrected itself when I came home today all by itself. ****************** Can't say that I have seen or heard of this problem. My thoughts are hardware or you need to run sax2 again. Might try checking only one resolution, rather than 2 or 3 and since LCD monitors only work the best at the recommended resolution, it doesn't do much good to select more than one in sax2. Anyway, you can activate the randr program now for XFree86 4.3 and change on the fly from KDE!
Visiting the http://www.yesnetwork.com web site caused both Galean and Mozilla browsers to crash with a segmentation fault. Can anyone on this list please try to visit this site on their SuSE boxes and tell me if it crashes for them too? ******************** Nick, This is the error I get from Konq trying your site: Found a cyclic link in http://www.yesnetwork.com/index.cfm
So my guess, from the error, is that the site is bad or badly programed or meant for IE only! It didn't crash Konq, Konq just didn't start up. (snip)
~~Nick
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On Thu, 2003-04-24 at 16:59, Nicholas Parsons wrote:
Hi All,
<snip> I've been using it for about a week now and have no major complaints thus far. Installation was a breeze on my home pc except for my scanner/printer. I have a epson printer which supports both USB and parallel port connections. The scanner won't work unless I hook it up through a printer device to the parallel port on my pc. It is a no name scanner which came with a single TWAIN driver floppy disk. Needless to say it does work pretty well on Windows XP Home. But no luck with SuSE. When my printer was hooked up through the scanner it too failed to work in SuSE environment. When I plugged it in to the USB port YaST 2 picked it up and I was up and printing in no time. I got the full version of 8.2, and so asked the folks at SuSE if they could help out with the scanner/printer configuration. The funny thing is I sent this request from YaST2 and they had a topic there for printers. I didn't get a response until 4 days later. The response said that printers were not covered with installation support. I was pretty disappointed by this. Why have "printers" as a choice when filling out the support request in YaST2 if it is not supported???
Which Printer and Scanner?
KDE 3.1 truly rocks overall but I found a glitch in the X server shipped with SuSE 8.2. When leaving my machine on but idle for a few hours my viewing area becomes "smaller" and I have to log out and then back in to recover it. I am using a Sony SDM-S71 LCD monitor. Anyway I thought it might have been a problem with KDE so I logged out and then logged into the gnome environment. I have not left since. I still have issues with the viewing area but it seems to have corrected itself when I came home today all by itself.
Not getting that issue here.
Visiting the http://www.yesnetwork.com web site caused both Galean and Mozilla browsers to crash with a segmentation fault. Can anyone on this list please try to visit this site on their SuSE boxes and tell me if it crashes for them too?
Did get an error about cyclic link, but nothing was spewed onto the console.
Finally, even though I selected all the major categories for software selection in YaST during the installation, it failed to install my favorite text editor; gvim. Vim was indeed installed but I had to manually find and install it from YaST2 after installation. I like the new YOU feature during installation so I can grab those patches before I even boot into SuSE for the first time.
Put check marks in all the package selections? Matt
~~Nick
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Nicholas Parsons wrote:
I've been using it for about a week now and have no major complaints thus far. Installation was a breeze on my home pc except for my scanner/printer. I have a epson printer which supports both USB and parallel port connections. The scanner won't work unless I hook it up through a printer device to the parallel port on my pc. It is a no name scanner which came with a single TWAIN driver floppy disk. Needless to say it does work pretty well on Windows XP Home. But no luck with SuSE. When my printer was hooked up through the scanner it too failed to work in SuSE environment. When I plugged it in to the USB port YaST 2 picked it up and I was up and printing in no time.
You indicate that the scanner and the printer are/were happy in the XP Home environment - did you happen to record any driver details from the relevant control panel areas? Occasionally I've been able to get appropriate driver/vendor names from the windows evironment and then sneak up on the *nix equivalent using that info.
On Friday 25 April 2003 12:59 am, Nicholas Parsons wrote:
Visiting the http://www.yesnetwork.com web site caused both Galean and Mozilla browsers to crash with a segmentation fault. Can anyone on this list please try to visit this site on their SuSE boxes and tell me if it crashes for them too?
Hi Nick Visited the site and got a meesage in Konqueror which says: "Found a cyclic link in http://www.yesnetwork.com/index.cfm" Perhaps this is your problem? Paul H
On Friday 25 April 2003 00:59, Nicholas Parsons wrote: <snip>
Visiting the http://www.yesnetwork.com web site caused both Galean and Mozilla browsers to crash with a segmentation fault. Can anyone on this list please try to visit this site on their SuSE boxes and tell me if it crashes for them too?
The problem is that the page isn't valid html. If you run that page through the w3c's validator at http://validator.w3.org, you get: "I was not able to extract a character encoding labeling from any of the valid sources for such information. Without encoding information it is impossible to validate the document. The sources I tried are: The HTTP Content-Type field. The XML Declaration. The HTML "META" element. And I even tried to autodetect it using the algorithm defined in Appendix F of the XML 1.0 Recommendation. Since none of these sources yielded any usable information, I will not be able to validate this document. Sorry. Please make sure you specify the character encoding in use." Your best bet is to email the site admins and get them to put up some valid html. Many organisations are bizarrely slack about this, and I suppose they will only fix stuff if they are told it is broken. <snip> HTH Fergus -- Fergus Wilde Chetham's Library Long Millgate Manchester M3 1SB Tel: +44 161 834 7961 Fax: +44 161 839 5797 http://www.chethams.org.uk
Nicholas Parsons
The response said that printers were not covered with installation support. I was pretty disappointed by this.
The types of installation support are on http://www.suse.de/en/private/support/inst_support/support_overview.html -- Alexandr.Malusek@imv.liu.se
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