Scribbling feverishly on April 24, J. Allen Crider managed to emit: > 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.
Bummer, dude. > 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. Nice toy. Gotta get me one of them... > 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 [more tales of woe] I suspect a misconfigured X server - Radeon support is still being worked out, if the traffic on the Xpert and Newbie XFree86 mailing lists is any indication. > 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. Hmm. Wonder if I got lucky with the beta? It was running fine on my laptop. Kurt -- Due to a shortage of devoted followers, the production of great leaders has been discontinued. _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
