I hope this is an appropriate place for this, but if not, please redirect me as appropriate.
I have three problems with a new installation of 10.2rc1. Two problems I think are just configuration issues, one is kindof a bug--I suspect--in the install system. They are: 1) My video card is not being recognized by the install. I get a generic VESA monitor, which the gnome applet says is running at 1024x768 with thousands of colors. Oddly, SaX says its generic at 800x600. I believe it's actually doing 1024x768 because I used GIMP to show an 800x600 document at full size and it didn't fill the screen :) The device is actually an Intel 945 GM which previously (under 10.1) worked in a higher, widescreen, resolution (about 1600x800 I think it was). Admittedly, the driver that achieved that crashed on mode change (including on logout!) so one could argue I'm better off, but I need to drive my external monitor too, so I have to resolve this really. 2) My wireless card (Intel 3945ABG) worked out of the box in 10.1, but now I find that while Yast seems to know about it, it doesn't show up in either the Network Monitor applet, nor if I do "ifconfig -a" I did make the mistake that my initial install didn't include the "add on" disk which has the FCC compliance part of this device, but I've since added that in, and still nothing. 3) This is the suspected install bug. Unfortunately I don't have all the information, but if someone wants to take it seriously and tell me exactly what to collect, I'll run the whole thing again and provide more details. My install gets to the screen that offers the chance to check the media. Of about 6 install attempts, I found that once after checking the media, it proceeded normally, every other time, whether I checked media or not, it appears to hang. It actually stopped for about five minutes (no clock used!) and then picked up as if nothing had happened. I did the install one time with "safe mode" and that didn't exhibit this problem, but the resulting install crashed on startup so was useless. I noticed in vt4 (I think) that there were reports complaining about ata2 (I think) having bad something. I should note that SuSE 9.3, 10.1, and some others all ran past this install without complaining about my 6 week old hard drive :) So, I really don't believe it's anything to do with that. I've also noticed, but not documented, some strange "sloweness" here and there with 10.1 that felt to me like there was something funny in the interrupt handling in this dual core machine. Just gut, so probably wrong, but I mention it, as this feels like it could be related. Unrelated, but also seemingly an install bug perhaps, vt1 shows an error report which I think is coming from a perl script. Something about blah, blah = blah, blah should be (blah, blah) = (blah, blah) or simiar. I'm not a perl programmer so I didn't really pay close attention, but the error runs over more than a whole page. Seems like it's help text more than error report! Any suggestions gang? I'd really like to get this to work (and going back to 10.1 isn't much of an option, as that was very unstable w.r.t. the video modes, and also VMWare--I'm hoping this might be better :) Cheers, Simon "You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions." — Naguib Mahfouz ____________________________________________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail beta. http://new.mail.yahoo.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
