Hi Walt… My problems were related (apparently) to the SuSE boot process and the fact that my mother board has 4 USB 1.1 ports and 2 USB 2.0 ports. When I disabled the 4 USB 1.1 ports, the boot time would drop to 4 minutes.
The scanner would work for a user if you unplugged USB and then re-plugged it - the scanner has no power button and, alas, the USB connection is on the back. SuSE 9.0 could configure DualHead but the process was undocumented and following normal protocols would fail the configuration. It helped to have configured it for SuSE 8.2 after upgrading xf86 (8.e did not support multiple monitors). The hotplug problems were discussed in mail lists at hotplug projects at sourceforge by SuSE developers at the time 9.0 was released. After the long boot, SuSE 9.0 was ok except that it was very slow and (according to xload) really demanded a lot from the os/cpu. I don't know why. Mandrake 10.0 is very much faster on my AMD workstation. No one on the SuSE list complained about long boots. Perhaps because during the install SuSE would become unresponsive for long periods and they gave up at that point. After several attempts to install, I just let it run and the installation succeeded. Strangely enough, I upgraded from 8.2 to 9.0 originally and begin to get many warning about configuration files being wrong, and also an extended boot time (about three minutes, up from 1-2 minutes with 8.2). Later, when GRUB started being unresponsive for a long time during boot, I decided to go with a clean install to "fix" those annoyances, and that's when all the problems began. Larry Johnson, KeepItSimpleEngineering,Inc. > -----Original Message----- > From: WaltFrampus [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, July 30, 2004 12:38 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [newbie] Switching from SuSE to Mandrake. > > > On Fri, 2004-07-30 at 15:13, Larry Johnson KISE wrote: > > Hi all.... > > > > I've used SuSE for over five years, mostly in servers, and have been > > experimenting with getting a workable desktop adjunct or replacement for > > Windows. Each successive SuSE distribution had come closer for my needs > > with the exception of SuSE 9.0. which had major problems (e.g. taking over 9 > > minutes to boot). > > > It's funny, I had problems with mandrake 10.0 and no problems with Suse > 9.1 on my desktop. I still use Mandrake 10 on my laptop with no > problems. I have been using Mandrake for 5 years now and am loyal to > them and will still use their distro. > > Walt >
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