> Yes, that was certainly my intention, but I could not get past a login > screen on Suse - well, it would log me on but not go anywhere. Turns out > the settings had changed and the boot loader was not booting into KDE - > something to do with the display settings which Volker talked me through > changing through the Yast CLI.
Several independent problems. The Windows reinstall was caused by something screwing windows. Not that most on this list think that'd be a bad thing, but it shouldn't happen by a Linux install (and no proof that indeed the Linux install caused the windows problem). Unknown cause, but requiring complete reinstall. The SuSE problem was caused by something setting the login/display manager from kdm to xdm, and the window manager from kde to some twm fossil. Unknown cause - but Nick if you did that, it was a seriously bad idea! The video driver was changed to some nvidia-downloaded one, perhaps this changed the displaymanager too (reason no 5 why nvidia is a PITA). Because of the ms reinstall the linux bootloader went West and the linux system unbootable. The fix is to reinstall a new bootloader: boot install media -> install -> fix system, deselect everything but bootloader configuration. A few things get force-selected again. Make sure you tick "replace code in mbr". Finish/save + reboot. The display manager problem needs fixing by editing variables in 2 files in /ets/sysconfig/. Yast does this with system->sysconfig editor. A text editor would do, but make sure to run SuSEconfig after any changes. This should bring everything back to order. Now the modem... it seems that the driver integrated in SusE 9.3 is too old for Deane's modem, and a manual upgrade to a newer driver kills system integration. No doubt with a bit more effort this could be fixed. Losing system integration unfortunately isn't really an option for a beginner, but I probably won't have time for compiling new rpms. Give me a call sometime Deane. Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is possibly list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me.
