SUSE 10.1 Help

Pentium III 1.0Ghz Coppermine.

Try another distro to see if it's drivers are better.

Bob

also had compatibility issues. And I have late model 32-bit hardware that has been recognized since the 2.4.10 kernel. I downloaded and burned a Ubuntu 6.06 DVD at the same time. Tried that and loved it (other than the brown color). As with any new distro (even Windows XP) you have to a bit of tweaking. Still working on things, but I must say I'm really impressed. Defineately worth a try. chuck

i can't run it on that computer, if i stick in the disk, and click start, it'll eventually crash. I can't get to the desktop to install. I was planning to use ubuntu, but since it didnt work, i used suse. I previously used linspire, which was okay, the sound worked then, but i didn't like it.

Roger

What settings are you using?

For instance an oddity is that 32K or 64K colors may be sluggish compared to millions of colors.

Bob

where can i find out this setting, i looked through personal settings. I see that it is at 1024x768, and i cant change the resolution. Basically, both konqueror and firefox both are slow. When i scroll down (it seems like its going in slow motion, like when you see low resoultions, you can see the flicker of the screen as it refreshes). I've disabled auto-scrolling and smooth-scrolling in firefox and its better, but for konquerer, with no option to disable, its still laggy. I think i'll stick with firefox for now. I think the problem may be because there is too little memory on this computer, whenever i check the aviable memory, its less than 5mb. Oh well, thanks for the help everyone.

Roger

On older machines with limited resources, I have found it necessary to load the frame buffer (and sometimes a lot more) on start-up. Some will give you the option (f2, or f3, or f4,etc) or at the "boot:" prompt, enter "fb800x600
(without quotation marks)and press enter. This might help. chuck

Sorry, that should be fb=800x600, not fb800x600. If that doesn't work, also add Screen=800x600 (that is capital S). On one distro I had to pre-load this script:
"fb=800x600 Screen=800x600 depth=16 acpi=off noapic nodma pnpbios=off noscsi". Hope some part of this helps. chuck

that SuSE is also a big memory hog (assuming we're talking about openSuSE). I checked my system resources and it will consume from 250MB-314MB of RAM and I only have 320MB RAM.

When I boot Linux, soon I find nearly zero free memory. My machine has 1G RAM. Here's the question.

In a virtual memory OS, shouldn't all memory be "used?"

Bob

I had this board with onboard sound which would not work. I disabled the onboard sound and installed a SB16 compatible card.

Beep! It works.

Bob