Hi Peter Being dumb I gave away my RH 7.2 box set only to find out that the problem you discuss is not the only problem with RH 7.3. In particular my modem freezes or locks up which can only be cleared by disconnection and reconnecting. This did not occur in RH 7.2. Now, there has to be some pattern to this which I haven't figured out yet but in general I suspect it is because I am using Kppp.
If you recall recently I posted a major rant concerning RH 8.0 and how trashy it is in comparison to RH 7.3 and RH now apparent concept of trashing KDE. Point is that to me the last usable stable version of RH is 7.2 not RH 7.3. My advice is if you have a box set of RH 7.2 install that and then update the programs. At that point you will be up to the level of RH 8.0 except for the kernel and the installation programs which are by RH and are the source of many of the problems. As far as the kernel goes that too can be updated but it is a wee bit more complicated than updating programs. For myself I just purchased Mandrake 8.2 and am in the process of evaluating it. If it functions adequately I plan on installing it on a notebook where automatic updating wold be highly desirable. As for the desk top box I am now look at Debian since I have never had good luck with SuSE and the US phone system and trying to reconfigure it by script files. In reality I suspect this idiocy of one click installation screwups has not reached its zenith yet. I only expect this to get much worse. To me the major distributions are making a major mistake in trying to make Linux one click installation to appease the Windows crowd. Think about how many MS boxes does the end line consumer have to install Windows on. Most of the time it is all done by professionals who do the same installation on 1000s of like boxes at a time. The question then becomes why would such level of professional want one click installation over having the best drivers, programs, and other assorted software components required for a top quality system. As far as the non teckie types installing Linux I have had a little experience with that. I can recall one individual (retired) who was a 60's mainframe computer type in particular strongly insisting that there was something major wrong with Linux because he could not get the program to run correctly under MS Windows. No amount of explanation on my part ever convinced him that Linux was an operating system that is a replacement for windows. It was a most enlightening experience especially in light of his former computer engineer status. Point is if the major distributions are expecting the average user to ever be able to replace Windows with Linus they have to be smoking something recreational because that just is not reality. Which brings us back to the RH and SuSe installation problems. The technical concept may be perfect but the human side is completely out of wacky with reality. Thanks Frank On Wednesday 06 November 2002 02:46, Peter wrote: > Several months ago I upgraded to RH7.3 from RH7.2 and got then bad keyboard > lock-ups when trying to play games or when the sreensaver would switch to > blank screen. The problem could not be resolved on this forum and I had to > install RH7.2 again. (What is Linux w/o its screensavers?) > > It turned out that the culprit is somehow the onboard video card SiS630 > even so it works well with RH7.2. > > I now took the video card from my old PS1 computer put it into the PCI slot > of the motherboard, upgraded again to RH7.3 and all games and screensaver > run smoothly with no keyboard lock-ups. > > Regards - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
