Thanks for the nuggets of advice (can't claim to have understood
everything but will apply myself to it bit by bit.....would have replied
earlier but have had problems due to messing around with
mutt/sendmail/fetchmail and have consequently lost (and now found again)
lots of mail....
All the best
Craig
On Wed, 23 May 2001, Robert Davies wrote:
>
> > 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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