Submitted by “SUSE Linux OSS 10, is a mixed bag of emotions. I’m very happy that power management has improved but at the same time I’m disappointed with the lousy wireless support (centrino 2200bg) and I’m also disappointed with the incorrect video resolution.” In addition, here‘s an article on how to setup SmartPM for SUSE.
So I won’t read the review… it is not *that* difficult to put suse 10 and centrino 2200bg through a search now, is it…?
Interesting how the reviewer failed to realize that the ipw2200 firmware is not completely open source software and that one has to agree on a license to use it. As such the firmware is not included in the OSS version so that users who want a completely opensource distro can use SUSE. If he took the time to read anything about the SUSE release he would have downloaded SUSE 10.0 and not the OSS version. If he didn’t want the extras such as java, real player, flash, etc then he could have just downloaded the firmware rpm and install that. The person reviewing SUSE either cannot read or didn’t really care to give a fair review in the first place
my gripe isnt about the firmware which i am aware of (running intel ipw2200 here on fedora, with no issues)
my problem with it was that YaST fails to show any WEP or wireless configuration settings if you went with the default ‘next’ during the install. I believe that’s a bug. If you can’t be bothered to read the review and what I said about wireless and why I said it, then don’t bother dissing the author (me).
cheers
anyweb
First of all: why is he talking as if you could download only SUSE Linux OSS? You can just as well download Eval, with all the commercial goodies.
But then, like everybody else, he is having only minor issues.
Is it really only me having major ones?
I can’t setup the geometry of my screen properly, no matter what.
I can’t install and activate the Nvidia driver, no way.
I have very standard hardware which has always worked with almost every distro since I bought it, including all previous SUSE releases.
And then there is the issue with sound. I have a Sound Blaster Live!24-bit.
I know, it is a bit of a bitch, but since kernel 2.6.12 it has been fully supported: with Mandriva 2006, for instance, I don’t have to do anything at all: KDE greets me with sound.
Not with SUSE 10.0
If I use YaST it says it can’t load the kernel module.
Alsaconf seems to configure it OK, but then sound doesn’t start.
Oh well…
I’ve had weirdy sound problems with SuSE before, you might want to give reinstalling sound card driver a try, it’s worked for me more than once (no idea why
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I can’t install and activate the Nvidia driver, no way.
Unless you install preconfigured binairy modules you need the kernel-headers or kernel-source installed.On the nvidia website you can read the README.
Than you will notice the install procedure for SuSE is
1) init 3
2) sh NVIDIA…..
3) sax2 -m 0=nvidia
4) configure the geometry and whatnot
5) edit “/etc/X11/xorg.config
6) init5
Thanks for your suggestions, but I have installed Nvidia successfully probably thousand of times.
I’ll give it another go, anyway.
I installed them just by clicking a checkbox on Suse’s online update. It was downloaded and installed automatically. It could not be any easier than that.
That is what I have always done in the first instance since SUSE 8.2 (previous to that I didn’t have a card capable of 3D acceleration)
But this time it doesn’t work, nor does manually installing the Nvidia driver.
I installed them just by clicking a checkbox on Suse’s online update. It was downloaded and installed automatically. It could not be any easier than that.
Worked for me also.
raelly…
But this time it doesn’t work, nor does manually installing the Nvidia driver.
Just tell us what you have done sofar (how).And what is the exact error message.
Just installed it today. Installation is a treat but my (ICH6) modem on Tecra S2 laptop didnot work! Any driver suggestions?
This is Intel chipset! I thought Intel was working closely with the kernel guys
It’s also a phoenix BIOS. My experience with an S2 and linux was abysmal.