@DoDi This is little OT at Lazarus list but I want to tell about my success with Opensuse 11.2 on a new mini-laptop. After your comments (below) about WLAN and all I was curious if I get it working.
> Encouraged by this success I tried Suse 11.2 again, what turned out as a > nightmare. After an hour of media check, configuring and installation I > got an desktop without display options. No chance to set the display > resolution, or multi-monitor support, and the desktop showed garbage > every now and then. No network connections, neither via USB-DSL nor > WLAN, only after I plugged in a network cable (across my room) I could > use the Internet. But even then I couldn't install the nVidia drivers, > the system went into text mode and was "confused" about something, and > finally blanked the screen :-( ... but no, everything worked like charm for me. I copied Suse CD-image to a USB stick with "dd" command, then edited laptop's bios settings to enable F12 boot menu. Then I booted from USB and installed everything using mostly defaults. WLAN worked automatically. There is a free WLAN in our school for everybody. I only typed a password and it started to move data > 50 Mbits/s. I have 1 Mbits/s ADSL at home so it feels snappy (I thought wireless is slower). The machine is Acer eMachines em250. About like this but has smaller HD (160GB) and Windows XP: http://www.liliputing.com/2010/01/closer-look-at-the-emachines-em250- netbook.html It is rather cheap (236 euros) but has all the features the high-end machines had 3 years ago. It has more memory than my desktop machine has. With an external monitor I could easily use it as my only machine. Recommended! I really don't know what caused your problems with Opensuse 11.2. Must be some combination of hardware. Regards, Juha -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
