On Monday 17 December 2001 09:43 am, you wrote:
This weekend I took the plunge! I scrubbed XP off of my laptop (HP Pavilion XH485) and installed SuSE 7.3. I have been goofing with RedHat for years
I'm running an HP too, a desktop. I can't get Linux to boot anymore from the HD though, I still need to boot from floppy. :-(
but this is my first SuSE experience. It impressed me so much that I I decided to make it my primary OS.
SuSE is my primary OS too, if I could run the few games I'm interested in that don't have good Linux equivalents I'd probably never boot XP again.
I have a couple of things yet to solve... How do I get my scroll wheel of the mouse to work?
That's relatively simple. Edit /etc/X11/XF86Config (note both the pathname, including X11, and capitalization) , add the single line Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" To the Section InputDevice that has to do with the mouse. That made it work fine here.
Also I need to know what a good solution would be to get the DVD drive to play DVDs. I have been looking at Ogle.. but have not
Ogle works... The Xine that comes with SuSE is unfortunately an old version that works poorly, but the latest version, that works very well, is available on the net. Not only does the latest Xine work well, the RPMs are targeted especially for SuSE as the default; a welcome change from the usual standards-breaking RedHat paths. :-) I don't remember the URL, but you should be able to find it by searching for it on www.google.com
tried it yet. I also noticed that 3d acceleration is not enabled for the video card (Trident Cyberblade 8 meg). Is this possible?
I can't help you on that one. I use an nVidia card.
Anyway- good bye Microsoft...
If it wasn't for my 80 Gig hard-drive having enough space to waste on XP sitting there doing nothing I'd probably nuke it too. :-)