One thing of mention for SuSe. I am running it on my desktop and have
spent some amount of wasted time. I wanted to install my HP Photosmart
1215 printer and went through the KDE applet to install it. It should
have worked fine, but no matter how many small changes I made, it never
would work. I'm not sure how I ended up there, but I ended up using
YaST to add one. It didn't work, but as soon as I removed the one that
was there from the KDE applet the one I installed via YaST started
working. I had already installed it successfully on RedHat using the
KDE applet so obviously SuSe has modified Linux in some fashion to break
the KDE applet functionality.
I'd recommend using YaST to make changes where possible. (Not only was
it a waste of time, but I'd rather be able to make changes using KDE so
that a change in distro doesn't mean a change in the way to go about
configuration!)
Larry
On Mon, 2004-07-05 at 00:39, Eben King wrote:
> I got really sick of XP, and I got that nifty DVD from Novell with SuSE
> 9.1 on it, so I went ahead, shrunk XP's partition, repartitioned the HD,
> and put SuSE Linux on there.
>
> So far, what doesn't work are hibernation (ignores Fn-F12), tapping on the
> touchpad (but I usually turn that off anyhow... I do it too often by
> accident) and the on-screen display (the volume / brightness / ThinkLight
> keys work, but no OSD accompanies them). What might work are the modem
> (maybe, haven't tried) and suspension (kb locked up last time). What
> surprisingly works are the 802.11b mini-PCI NIC (I had to compile a driver
> for it, but it was easy once I got a custom kernel going), and the sound.
>
> I expect the list of "don't work"s to shrink. Also, I'm figuring out KDE
> and SuSE (first time on each), so I'll get better at them.
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