I think the problem is that the ratio of flawless installations to problems is
much greater in 9.2 than it was in previous versions. There would even appear
to be less hardware support. Now that may be by design, I don't know. I know
that I have at least one controller that 9.2 doesn't appear to find at all.
It's a legacy card and nearly every distro previously has support for it. It's
not that big of a deal, as I can do without it. Yet, if you total the
experiences where have systems freezing and unexplained issues you get a big
picture that just makes 9.2 look poor. And it's hard for those who've had a
perfectly fine installation experience to full appreciate and that's probably
a natural thing. You may have to try another distro for your hardware. I used
to get reamed in IRC for trying to help someone by asking what distro they
were running. People would say, "Linux is linux, that shouldn't matter." But
I've seen hardware work under one distro and not under another, even within
the same kernel releases. <shrug>
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From: "Donn L Washburn"
Given KNOPPIX a try for hardware issues. It is very good at finding hardware/drivers and is a bootable CD "www.knoppix.net"
Very handy tool!
On Sat, 20 Nov 2004 07:44:44 -0500 d gleba
wrote: Doug McGarrett wrote:
Hello, all--and probably goodbye--
I know you have been helpful thruout all this time-- I've been with SuSE since 7.1, but I've had it.
I recommend you leave you 'broken' suse on, and install xp and another distro, like say Mepis, and see what the these do. This will help determine if there is a hardware problem. Install them 'clean' to see what an unaltered software install does.
You could even install another suse 9.2 and see how it runs clean. Do you run as root or a user in most cases?
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