James PEARSON <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello all > > I installed openSUSE 10.2 b2 on an old PentiumIII at work which > uses an i810 chipset. The "yast" install ran in "ncurses" mode but it > ran ok. That is very notable because alot of live cds wouldn't even > start an xserver on the i810 chipset. Great work! > > Since that worked out OK I decided to install openSUSE 10.2 b2 on my > T60 Thinkpad (Model 1952 W5R). It has a Intel Centrino Duo 1.83 > cpu with 2 Go of RAM and a Mobile Intel 945GM Express video chipset). > Note as far as I know only openSUSE 10.1, gentoo, and the > latest [k|u]buntu work OK on the Intel 945GM video chipset. Hands off to > openSUSE for being one of the three.
Thanks! > # My report > I selected a kde install as per normal. The 10.2 b2 install went fairly > quickly until it hit the "Download and Installation" page. Creating / > downloading the source(s) took some 20 minutes. First remark. Why does > creating / downloading the source(s) take so long ? (here's is what I > hope will be taken as constructive criticism - as I can download 1000 > kb/sec+ on my side, I would appreciate more speed on the suse side. I > personally would be willing to pay for higher download speeds - > please note I have had problems in the past with slow updates when > installing suse using the orginal 10.1 CD's and ended up leaving the > computer on all night - maybe you could consider a subscription > service something "a la Mandriva" for higher d/l speeds). > > On the "creating / downloading the source(s)" page, yast2 had a problem > creating one of the sources (it definitely appeared to be looping for > awhile). After some 20 minutes yast2 offered be the choice to hit the > skip button and finished the install. Please create a bug report for these two and attach /var/log/YaST (as tar file) and /var/log/zmd*log > When the install finished, yast rebooted automatically into kde but I > had no kde menu panel. I managed to open a konsole window and I noticed > that I had no IP either. Please note that I had selected "Network > manager" during the install instead of the traditional setup method as I > normally do. It would appear that "Network manager" had a problem when > it had to choose between the normal network cable (which definitely > works - I just deleted a working 10.1 install in order to test 10.2) and > the Intel PRO/Wireless 3945 ABG chipset (which still had to be fully > configured). There are already bugs in this area, I think you hit a duplicate. "rcnetwork restart" should fix it - if not, please open a bugreport. > > I rebooted again. On the second reboot I had a "SUSEPlugger - The KDE > Crash Hander" window telling me that "The application SUSEPluger > (suseplugger) crashed and casued the signal 6 (SIGABRT) Known bug - mentioned in the most annoying ones. > > I would really like to work with you on this in order to get openSUSE > working on my T60. Please let me know what logs I need to send to help > improve things. Thanks for your testing! Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.suse.de/~aj/ SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126
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