Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Mon 7th Oct 2002 07:27 UTC
If there are two things in this apartment that I don't like, that would first be the dog upstairs which barks at 5 AM almost every morning, and the fact that UPS almost never deliver things on our door. They never bother to check if we are in. The SuSE people were very kind to send us the Professional version of SuSE 8.1, but unfortunately, I received it 10 days later after it arrived in the apartment's complex. But now we got it here, we gave it a spin for almost a week, and here is what we think about it.
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Well, I just got done testing Mandrake 9 and Red Hat 8....while my main install has been SuSE 7.3 and 8 respectively. While both MD9 and RH8 showed a lot of polish and promise for JonQ home user, I still didnt think they were nearly as good as SuSE is.....and I havent even got my hands on 8.1 yet (its on the UPS truck now). Yes RH has the best font setup, and Mandrake makes things ULTRA easy for the most inexperienced....but somthing just isnt right with them. RH8 goes a breaks things in KDE...I read that there are some 20+ patches you have to apply to fix make it work 100% properly. Since Im a KDE user RH just ruined that for me. Mandrake, like all the other new "user friendly desktop" distros coming out, is just too unlinux like for me. With SuSE...Ive got Linux in all its glory...standard KDE and Gnome to do with whatever I please, and quite possibly the best config tool out there (YaST2).
Anyway, with regard to the nvidia drivers read on. As a long time SuSE and winex user Ive come to learn all about these nvidia issues. First off I have an AMD 761 chipset not VIA...so my experience may be different, but here goes. DO NOT INSTALL THE NVIDIA DRIVERS FROM SUSE ONLINE UPDATE!!! They will not work right. I have also had problems with the distribution based rpms from nvidias site...so those are out too. This is what Ive done time and time again and its worked to perfection every time. First go to Kpackage or whatever you choose and remove both the nvidia kernal drivers and GLX drivers. Make sure you manually edit your XF86Config file back to the original "nv" driver and remove the Load "glx" lines then give it a reboot. Now go get the drivers from nvidias website in the tar ball form. Do the usual ./configure and make install. Then go and manually delete all the libmesaGL libs from /usr/lib (this helps prevent and conflict or confussion between hardware vs. software GL rendering). At this point I always have to go back to XF86Config and manually re-edit to add Load "glx" and "nvidia" for the kernal driver. A quick reboot and Im in good shape playing UT2003 and my winex games. Oh and sometimes youll need to relink the libs depending on how messed up your setup is too.