[wplug] SuSE 9.0 ??

[Bobbie Lynn Eicher]

If you 're using Gnome with SuSE, you may want to make sure to open up 
YaST from time to time manually (I don't know where the file is through 
the console, I just bring it up from the menu under system generally.  
Never bothered to hunt it down :) )  The update monitor (SuSEWatcher) is 
only set up to run automatically under KDE, but I believe it'll still 
work if you run it yourself and leave it going in the background.  I 
just haven't actually attempted more than opening it up to make sure 
that it'd be capable of running under Gnome.

The Nvidia driver comes up on my list of possible patches, with YaST 
btw, so you should be able to get the driver installed easily by just 
giving the system the OK to do it.

SuSE 9.1 is supposed to be out soon... how soon depends on who you 
listen to.  I seem to remember Novell saying May, but Amazon's website 
has been saying April 15th they'll start shipping.  At any rate, if I'm 
recalling correctly the 9.1 version is using the 2.6 kernel as its 
default, as well as the latest versions of Gnome and KDE.  If you 
continue to have problems with the system, it's possible that a switch 
to 9.1 will help.

- Bobbie Lynn

Sean McCune wrote:

>I'm using SuSE 9.0 and an NVidia driver on a 3.2 Ghz Verona workstation
>from PogoLinux with no problems (now).  So I agree.  
>
>However, I would also upgrade the kernel from the SuSE kernel to the the
>stock kernel.org 2.4.25 kernel (or maybe there's a later one by now).  I
>had all kinds of problems with the machine locking up, video being
>messed up for vmware, vmware vm's not running, and very very poor KDE
>performance.  And that's on 3.2 Ghz with 2 Gb RAM.
>
>That was my first SuSE install and I was surprised by all the problems,
>because I have never encountered anything like that before with Red Hat
>and Gentoo.
>
>But after the kernel upgrade, they all went away.  Well... I really
>haven't tested KDE all that much yet. I switched to GNOME which is what
>I usually use on Red Hat and Gentoo systems.
>
>McC
>
>
>On Tue, 2004-03-30 at 18:49, Jonathan S. Billings wrote:
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>>On Mar 30, 2004, at 6:42 PM, abhi s wrote:
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>>>Hello all,
>>>
>>>I have a Toshiba Satellite 2430 s-255 and i installed SuSE 9.0 on it 
>>>alongwith the existing Windows XP. My problem is that once I try 
>>>logging out of Linux, I lose the display completely, in the sense that 
>>>it does not return to the konsole/command line and all I can see is a 
>>>hazy color. But if I restart the computer then everything works fine.
>>>
>>>Has anyone else enccountered this behavior, any suggestions on how to 
>>>solve this?
>>>
>>>Thanks,
>>>
>>>Abhishek
>>>      
>>>
>>Sounds like the VGA console has been messed up by the video driver.  Do 
>>you know what kind of video card this is?  I found one page that 
>>describes linux on your laptop here:
>>http://www.dotsimple.com/toshiba/
>>
>>It suggests that you use the NVidia binary-only driver.
>>
>>Jonathan
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