> Just a few words by way of introduction; I have been using Linux now for
> over a year; currently running SuSE 7.1, which I really like (plus windows
> Me on a partitioned hard drive to ease the transition).
>
> After much travail not to say weariness of soul have got sound, printer
> and modem set up so can use Linux more extensively.
>
> Ilook forward to getting involved in the local group and hearing about
> other people's experience.
Hello, a few of us are using SuSE, I'm rather impressed with it. I had
minor trouble with sound, I think because I run dual Celeron SMP and the
board APIC handling is flakey, using noapic option seems to relieve the
problem, ALSA is rather impressive. I found setting up the printer very
simple, though I didn't spot how to switch drivers, so at first it worked
just with mono. On the modem, had a bit of bother getting NTL to answer
with tone dialing, though that has cleared up, and may have been due to init
strings wvdial uses by default. Getting mouse scroll wheel working is
simple once you know where the buttons entry is in the mouse configuration
of sax2, imps/2 mice cannot be auto-recognised unfortunately. I may need to
use imwheel as well, but so far it seems unecessary.
If you run SuSE 7.1, there are a few bug fixes that you probably want to get
rid of by updating RPMs.
1) Update y2base-2.2.7-9 rpm to -10!
See http://sdb.suse.de/sdb/en/html/y2_no_modulesconf.html or you may lose
/etc/modules.conf (a backup file in modules.conf.- is left, but you loose
some config, and then you'll have to check how to tell Yast2 that you didn't
do that bit of config).
2) http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/mjb_wrong_time_71.html
was aaa_base-2001.3.5-1, which fixed the wrong time being set occasionally
after booting.
If you are interested in updating to KDE 2.1 then I am mirroring the KDE
update directory and the updates for SuSE 7.1, am planning to burn them onto
a CD-RW if anyone interested. They run to about 800MB of updates and fixes
already, partly due to various new kernels and source being made available,
secondly due to the sheer amount of S/W SuSE makes available with the
distro.
Rob
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