During any of this, did you check your logs to see what was occuring? This sounds like some kind of hardware failure to me.
J. Allen Crider wrote: > I received it yesterday, and I must say that I am very disappointed so > far. After two unsuccessful installations, I have gone back to COL WS > 3.1.1 for now. I may give it another try if I can find any ideas on why > my first attempts failed, but not before the weekend now. > > My system has a 1GHz Athlon processor on a Tyan motherboard with 768MB > RAM, ATI Radeon AGP graphics card, 3 IDE hard drives and an IDE DVD > drive, BusLogic and Adaptec SCSI adapters, etc., and everything works > with COL. > > For my first attempt with SuSE 8, I selected a lot of the included > software packages, totalling approximately 6 GB. Other than the fact > that it took several hours to select the software and install it, the > install seemed to go OK, and I was able to configure the printers and > DHCP (for my cable modem) without any trouble. The problems began with > configuring X. At my preferred setting of 1600x1200, 24-bit color, 75 > Hz, the display was very dark and the colors were incorrect. After > everything was configured and I started KDE, I was able to open a > terminal window and run one command. Then the mouse cursor disappeared, > the hard drive light came on, and the system stopped responding to > either the mouse or keyboard. Eventually I gave up and did a reset. I > reconfigured the video to 1280x1024, which produced better colors, > although there was a dard shadow approximately 1/2 inch wide down the > left side of the monitor and other shadows. After a few minutes, the > hard drive light once again came on and the system stopped responding to > input. Over the next 16 hours or so, I did several resets, but it > always locked up within minutes of starting KDE and never came back, > including the one time that I gave it about 10 hours. > > I tried a second install this evening, installing a much smaller > selection of software packages, but I got the same results, and after a > couple of reboots, I blew it away and reinstalled COL. > > I was really hoping for a distribution with more up-to-date software > than COL, and I especially wanted KDE 3 and GNOME so that I could try > some other programs I've been wanting to experiment with, but SuSE 8 > still needs some work based on my experience to be a suitable > replacement for COL. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ L. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Step-by-step & TyGeMo: http://netllama.ipfox.com 7:00pm up 6 days, 1:56, 5 users, load average: 0.00, 0.05, 0.07 _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
