Hello. I recently attempted to install SuSE v9.1 Professional on my laptop. I have a Dell Latitude CPi (PII, 256MB RAM, 5GB HDD). While SuSE did install successfully, I have experienced several problems which amount to show stoppers for v9.1 unless I am able to resolve them. Because of these problems I have had to reinstall v8.0 Professional. As I said, the install went just fine, however once complete I encountered a few serious problems: 1. 60% of the time SuSE would ignore my keyboard. 2. This laptop has a touch-pad mouse, while the mouse is detected, the ability to use the touch-pad as an enter key was gone. (This is not an issue with v8.0, in fact it allows use of the touch-pad during install.) 3. My PCMCIA modem (Xircom CreditCard Ethernet 10/100 + Modem 56) is not detected. It is detected as an 'Unknown AT' modem under v8.0 and I am able to make use of it just fine. Try as I may, I cannot get v9.1 to recognize this modem. Without the ability to connect to the Internet v9.1 is worthless to me. I should not have to replace the modem I have as it works just fine under v8.0. I have no idea why v9.1 can't see it. Hardware detection is supposed to *improve* with each release of a distribution, not get worse. If anyone could provide some insight as to how I may resolve these issues I would greatly appreciate it. I would very much like to run v9.1 but without a working keyboard and modem I am not going to be able to. Thanks!
Søndag den 22. august 2004 18:31 skrev Jesse Purdom:
Hello.
I recently attempted to install SuSE v9.1 Professional on my laptop. I have a Dell Latitude CPi (PII, 256MB RAM, 5GB HDD). While SuSE did install successfully, I have experienced several problems which amount to show stoppers for v9.1 unless I am able to resolve them. Because of these problems I have had to reinstall v8.0 Professional.
As I said, the install went just fine, however once complete I encountered a few serious problems:
1. 60% of the time SuSE would ignore my keyboard. 2. This laptop has a touch-pad mouse, while the mouse is detected, the ability to use the touch-pad as an enter key was gone. (This is not an issue with v8.0, in fact it allows use of the touch-pad during install.) 3. My PCMCIA modem (Xircom CreditCard Ethernet 10/100 + Modem 56) is not detected. It is detected as an 'Unknown AT' modem under v8.0 and I am able to make use of it just fine. Try as I may, I cannot get v9.1 to recognize this modem.
Without the ability to connect to the Internet v9.1 is worthless to me. I should not have to replace the modem I have as it works just fine under v8.0. I have no idea why v9.1 can't see it. Hardware detection is supposed to *improve* with each release of a distribution, not get worse.
If anyone could provide some insight as to how I may resolve these issues I would greatly appreciate it. I would very much like to run v9.1 but without a working keyboard and modem I am not going to be able to.
Thanks!
Don't know your piece of hw but your should try a search with the different pieces of hw your have issues with here: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=suse-linux-e&r=1&w=4 Johan
On Sunday 22 August 2004 12:43, Johan Nielsen wrote:
Don't know your piece of hw but your should try a search with the different pieces of hw your have issues with here: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=suse-linux-e&r=1&w=4
Johan
Hi Johan, Thanks for the link to the list archive. I searched the archive and while I did find a good amount of information regarding Xircom's PCMCIA eth/modem cards, nothing really applied to what I am experiencing. I did get the impression that they were supported and fairly reliable. The fact that when running SuSE v8.0 I never had a problem with this modem supports this. What is bothersome about the issue is that SuSE v9.1 *does* detect the Xircom PCMCIA card, and recognizes the eth side of the card. It just simply will not recognize the modem. Any other thoughts? Jesse
Søndag den 22. august 2004 21:59 skrev Jesse Purdom:
On Sunday 22 August 2004 12:43, Johan Nielsen wrote:
Don't know your piece of hw but your should try a search with the different pieces of hw your have issues with here: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=suse-linux-e&r=1&w=4
Johan
Hi Johan,
Thanks for the link to the list archive. I searched the archive and while I did find a good amount of information regarding Xircom's PCMCIA eth/modem cards, nothing really applied to what I am experiencing. I did get the impression that they were supported and fairly reliable. The fact that when running SuSE v8.0 I never had a problem with this modem supports this.
What is bothersome about the issue is that SuSE v9.1 *does* detect the Xircom PCMCIA card, and recognizes the eth side of the card. It just simply will not recognize the modem.
Well it's all a matter of priorities. The linux world don't posses the same power as some big players to "force" them to make drivers available "ASAP/quickly". So it's all a matter of how old/new/current/widely used your equipment is. SuSE 9.1 (aka 2.6 is still early days). If I where you I'd take my SuSE 9.0 PRO with a very mature kernel and hit the labtop with that instead :-) Johan
Any other thoughts?
Jesse
On Sunday 22 August 2004 11:31 am, Jesse Purdom wrote: Have you checked to see if you have the latest BIOS? That cured all my presario problems, might work for you.
1. 60% of the time SuSE would ignore my keyboard. 2. This laptop has a touch-pad mouse, while the mouse is detected, the ability to use the touch-pad as an enter key was gone. (This is not an issue with v8.0, in fact it allows use of the touch-pad during install.)
Easy solution here. Go to CTL-ALT-F1, login as root, do INIT 3, then sax2 go to input devices, mouse, then select synaptics>touchpad and save/close. Now startx and it should be working. If not logout and then login as user and that should take care of it. Cant help you on the rest. ra
Richard wrote:
On Sunday 22 August 2004 11:31 am, Jesse Purdom wrote:
Have you checked to see if you have the latest BIOS? That cured all my presario problems, might work for you.
1. 60% of the time SuSE would ignore my keyboard. 2. This laptop has a touch-pad mouse, while the mouse is detected, the ability to use the touch-pad as an enter key was gone. (This is not an issue with v8.0, in fact it allows use of the touch-pad during install.)
Easy solution here. Go to CTL-ALT-F1, login as root, do INIT 3, then sax2 go to input devices, mouse, then select synaptics>touchpad and save/close. Now startx and it should be working. If not logout and then login as user and that should take care of it.
Cant help you on the rest. ra
I'm having the same keyboard problem. It seems to have something to do with the graphical boot. When I disabled that the problem went away... AT least so far :)
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