SuSE 8.0 Installation problems

[Keith Antoine]

On Fri, 13 Sep 2002 07:54, Susan Macchia wrote:
> First please accept my aplogies for the last 2 postes.  I'm using opera
> w/ yahoo mail and the tab key is causing the email to be sent!
>
> Yes my first thought was a hardware conflict, but I would have expect
> to see the problem w/ SuSe7.3 and I did not.  As I said it has been
> running flawlessly for almost 1 year now.  It could be some card
> beginning to die.  The only cards I have are
>     * a US Robotics ISA modem
>     * an Xpert 98D AGP 2x graphics card (PCI)
>     * Etherlink NIC (PCI_
>     * YMV724 Sound adapter card (PCI)
>
> When I look at the hardware info that SuSe generates there are others,
> but they look like they are part of the mother board (the slots I'm not
> using).  There are 2 ide controllers, one for disks and one for the
> cd-rom (I have a reader and a writer).  So far everything appears to
> work normally.  Any idea how I might trouble shoot?  I'm not a hardware
> specialist (only software a software geek :-) ).
>
> TIA

Well I am the H/W geek and I can tell you that I threw Suse 8.0 out the 
window, no I sold it a week after buying it. It did wierd things and was 
unable to do the bleeding edge. The configs are a nightmare, but the install 
was reasonable but glitchy. On the otherhand I tried it on a friends older 
machine and got similar results to what you describe.

I can say with reasonable assurance it was not the hardware but the software.

-- 
Keith Antoine (GANDALF) aka 'skippy'
18 Arkana St, The Gap, Queensland 4061 Australia PH:61733002161
Retired Geriatric, Sometime Electronics Engineer, Knowall, Brain in storage