On Wed, 28 Jul 2004, Christopher Nambale/Bushnet wrote: > I have not had any nice experience with suse since 7.2. I tried 8.2 on a > certain box with raid and for two days could not get the thing to boot even > after using manufacturer supported raid controller driver software.
u might have confused software and hardware raid, i think. > Now I am trying 9.1 on an HP laptop and it cannot recognise the monitor > type and cannot give me a resolution better than 640X 480, man, this works out of the box for many cards and monitors - u of course need the following info at hand to get X to look beautiful: - card type (important) - max resolution (important) - color depth (important) - refresh rate (important) - 3D? (not important) - horizontal and vertical sync ranges (important) without this info at hand, you may not get the best looking X. > hardware acceleration with ATi Radeon video adapter also fails get the latest XFree86. (A driver is also on the ATI website). > recompiled the kernel with the latest drivers from suse however now Xserver > does not start --something still to do with failing to recognise the > monitor. Funny thing is that morpheus (whose developers admit is bug > ridden) installs without a hustle. normally, the generic/VESA LCD drivers work. i must admit that getting your desktop to look cute in SuSE aint easy (as opposed to Mandrake and RedHat). It usually gets done though. cheers, ernest. --------------------------------------------- This service is hosted on the Infocom network http://www.infocom.co.ug
