SUSE 9.0 mumblings

[Matthew Carpenter]

That's odd.  As a Yast hater of many years I am surprised to say that
Yast2 and Sax2 have treated my systems quite wonderfully.  There have
been very few oddities, and indeed a great many complex configuration
items made easy.  I have had the issue of plugging in a smaller monitor
and having things ugly until I Ctrl-Alt-+ until it was visible and I
could either start the Resolution changer or edit the changes in Sax2. 
One thing I've noticed in 8.2 and earlier (and haven't had cause to find
it in 9.0) is that Sax2 doesn't always save changes the first time. 
I've had to make changes twice at times for them to stick.  I wonder if
this doesn't have to do with me dinking around in other parts of Sax2
and it forgetting or somesuch.  Not sure but other than that things have
been good, even so much as to help me with special configs for my NVidia
driver...

SuSE's auto-detector has caught and configured new hardware like
Scanners, CDRW, printers, etc... which has really left a good
impression, especially since the icons on the desktop start the
necessary apps.




On Sun, 2003-12-21 at 14:02, Gary wrote:
> Hi Collins,
> 
> --On Sunday, December 21, 2003 10:06:16 AM -0800 Collins 
> <erichey2 at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
> > The automatic setup for X produced a usable if not very readable startup
> > for  my old 15" monitor.  After adjusting it for 800x600 it's livable.
> > Unfortunately some of the kde dialogs aren't setup for anything smaller
> > than  1000x768, so I have to mother them around with alt-drag.
> 
> This is one of my pet peeves with SUSE. I am running 8.2, and any time I 
> have changed either monitors, added an additional mouse, or changed it, 
> etc, after the initial install, had nothing but problems. In RH, Kudzo most 
> of the time picked up the changes automatically. If not, a simple config 
> and it was done.  Not so, in my experience, with SUSE, using SAX2 (sucks2), 
> changes seem to have been made, but it never works properly, and when you 
> go in there again, it changed on me.. In fact, I just spent about 4 hours 
> trying to get an additional mouse to work, every time I started up Sucks2, 
> it would redefine my monitor incorrectly, which froze the mouse to change 
> it, etc. Then try adding the mouse, crazy... amateur status in this yet... 
> I got so fed up, the only way to get it right, was the old fashioned way, 
> do it by hand.  This caca has happened all the way back to v6.4 with me... 
> I have had it.