who has SuSE 8?

[J. Allen Crider]

Bruce Marshall wrote:

> On Wednesday 24 April 2002 22:01 pm, Net Llama! wrote:
> 
>>During any of this, did you check your logs to see what was occuring?
>>This sounds like some kind of hardware failure to me.
>>
>>
> 
> Sounds like a SCSI reset to me.   Whenever the HD light comes on solid, it 
> usually means a SCSI problem.  I wouldn't blame SuSE for that.
> 
> I run all-SCSI here and I'll be looking for the problem.
> 

I don't think it has anything to do with SCSI.  I have two hard drive 
lights, the first connected to my motherboard and the second connected 
to the BusLogic SCSI controller.  It was the first light that came on 
and stayed on, which has always indicated activity on one of the IDE drives.

I'm going to try again tomorrow night on an older computer that I've 
currently got Windows NT 4.0 on for those rare occasions that I have to 
use Windows and which has lots of free disk space.  If that is more 
successful, I may consider trying again on my larger system in another 
week or so, but for now it is once again running COL 3.1.1 just fine.


> 
> 
> 
>>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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J. Allen Crider
Huntsville, AL
acrider at hiwaay.net