On Wednesday 24 April 2002 22:01 pm, Net Llama! wrote:
> During any of this, did you check your logs to see what was occuring?
> This sounds like some kind of hardware failure to me.
>
Sounds like a SCSI reset to me. Whenever the HD light comes on solid, it
usually means a SCSI problem. I wouldn't blame SuSE for that.
I run all-SCSI here and I'll be looking for the problem.
> 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.
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