who has SuSE 8?

[Net Llama!]

During any of this, did you check your logs to see what was occuring? 
This sounds like some kind of hardware failure to me.

J. Allen Crider wrote:
> 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.


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