[ale] SuSE 81 review, kinda...

[Geoffrey]

I've got to say, I've been playing with SuSE 8.1 lately.  It is quite 
sweet.  I picked up the Personal version and installed it on 5 machines. 
  I've since picked up the Professional and am currently installing it 
on another.  So far it's been pretty flawless.  Two problems I have run 
into:

1. When installing on a box with an older trident card, I could never 
get X to work.  This happened with Mandrake 9.0 as well.  Doing a bit of 
research, I found a link off the XFree86 site referencing another driver 
and noting that xfree 4.2 has problems with some trident chipsets.  That 
driver works like a charm on two different trident cards I previously 
could not get working.

2.  When installing on a box with an S3 trio3d card, SuSE 8.1 Personal 
set the driver to "Vesa".  I don't know if that was intentional but 
again, reviewing the XFree docs, they say that chip requires the S3virge 
driver. Once I made this change, that box is working like a charm.

Waiting to see if my IEEE-1394 (firewire) card is recognized. ;)

-- 
Until later: Geoffrey		esoteric at 3times25.net

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