I received it yesterday, and I must say that I am very disappointed so far. After two unsuccessful installations, I have gone back to COL WS 3.1.1 for now. I may give it another try if I can find any ideas on why my first attempts failed, but not before the weekend now.
My system has a 1GHz Athlon processor on a Tyan motherboard with 768MB RAM, ATI Radeon AGP graphics card, 3 IDE hard drives and an IDE DVD drive, BusLogic and Adaptec SCSI adapters, etc., and everything works with COL. For my first attempt with SuSE 8, I selected a lot of the included software packages, totalling approximately 6 GB. Other than the fact that it took several hours to select the software and install it, the install seemed to go OK, and I was able to configure the printers and DHCP (for my cable modem) without any trouble. The problems began with configuring X. At my preferred setting of 1600x1200, 24-bit color, 75 Hz, the display was very dark and the colors were incorrect. After everything was configured and I started KDE, I was able to open a terminal window and run one command. Then the mouse cursor disappeared, the hard drive light came on, and the system stopped responding to either the mouse or keyboard. Eventually I gave up and did a reset. I reconfigured the video to 1280x1024, which produced better colors, although there was a dard shadow approximately 1/2 inch wide down the left side of the monitor and other shadows. After a few minutes, the hard drive light once again came on and the system stopped responding to input. Over the next 16 hours or so, I did several resets, but it always locked up within minutes of starting KDE and never came back, including the one time that I gave it about 10 hours. I tried a second install this evening, installing a much smaller selection of software packages, but I got the same results, and after a couple of reboots, I blew it away and reinstalled COL. I was really hoping for a distribution with more up-to-date software than COL, and I especially wanted KDE 3 and GNOME so that I could try some other programs I've been wanting to experiment with, but SuSE 8 still needs some work based on my experience to be a suitable replacement for COL. Douglas J Hunley wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Pam R spewed electrons into the ether that resembled: > >>On Wednesday 24 April 2002 1:58 am, Douglas J Hunley wrote: >> >>>anyone? anyone? >>> > > thoughts? opinions? observations? gotchas? > > care to review it for submission on the site? talk you into putting your > opinion of it on the new opinions site? > - -- > Douglas J Hunley (doug at hunley.homeip.net) - Linux User #174778 > Admin: Linux StepByStep - http://www.linux-sxs.org > and http://jobs.linux-sxs.org > Wishlist: http://www.amazon.com/o/registry/48D11KZ4BPBQ > > Try to prove me wrong. > - Linus > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org > > iD8DBQE8xyZoSrrWWknCnMIRAo4VAJ9FbN/2vwIdqWJt120NeJ/Ris16egCgu34o > gxLV9Qyg3tTDAaNlTPTANZI= > =ShGb > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users > Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL. > > -- J. Allen Crider Huntsville, AL [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
