----- Original Message ----- From: Delbaere, Tim <TXDELBAE@ctrl.co.uk> To: 'Linux List' <suse-linux-e@suse.com> Sent: Friday, February 05, 1999 10:58 AM Subject: [SuSE Linux] New Linux User

Hello,

Well, this Wednesday, I finally plucked up courage and installed Linux onto my home PC. Nothing great for you guy's and gal's, but for a total newbie

to

anything other than MS Windows, it was a big step. Biggest problem's I had were trying to get my graphics card to work (Diamond Fire GL1000 Pro), and I could not get X Windows configure my mouse. I had to get a new server for my graphics card, and had to disable USB support in my PC Bios. All in all, quite a painless task, and now I have a totally new OS to play around with.

Hi, Me too,now have SuSE 5.3 up and running without many problems. I also had a problem when setting up my mouse:- if i set it up first with YaST when doing the initial installation and then set up X with SAX then I got a multiple entry problem. I resolved this by saying no in YaST then using SAX to configure it later. After following this list for some time before trying linux I thought the biggest problems would be with some kinds of hardware, eg soundcards but happily my awe 64 card worked perfectly ( using tcd ) the first time after changing kernels to 2.0.36 and using the sound options when building the new kernel. In fact all i had to change was the irq to 10 and dma channel 1 to 0, what puzzles me is how one would know these figures if it wasnt set up on a windows box first?. Complaints?? only one so far, I have found it absolutely impossible :) to get the simplest form of connection to my isp up and running, How come its so easy under W9x?? and so complicated under linux??? Trevor.

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