who has SuSE 8?

[J. Allen Crider]

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:

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>>On Wednesday 24 April 2002 1:58 am, Douglas J Hunley wrote:
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>>>anyone? anyone?
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> thoughts? opinions? observations? gotchas?
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> care to review it for submission on the site? talk you into putting your 
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J. Allen Crider
Huntsville, AL
acriderpro at comcast.net