[Sderby] Suse 8.1 problems

[Tony Martin]

Sounds good. A p75 huh, any chance of another disk 2? Am happy to pay 
postage etc.
Looks like I might give it a second chance.
Many thanks
Tony

David Bottrill wrote:

>On Sat, 2003-01-18 at 21:14, Tony Martin wrote:
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>>Possible, but have heard other reports of 8.1 being a bit buggy.
>>Any other people have experience?
>>Ta Tony
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>I've been running it on a number of machines since it was released in
>October. The biggest problem I have had is with correctly configuring
>CD-RW drives, there is a bug in the setup program that configures
>IDE-SCSI emulation incorrectly. SuSE have a fix for this on their
>support database, also I think there is a similar document with a list
>of known problems are suitable fixes. 
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>There is a cosmetic problem with the Java plugin not working with
>Mozilla, this being due the fact the the plugin was compiled with and
>older version of GCC, there are many fixes to this, searching the SuSE
>mailing list will reveal many different options, I just downloaded
>Mozilla from www.mozilla.org which was statically compiled with a
>version of GCC that is compatiable with the Java plugin on SusE 8.1.
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>8.1 is certainly faster than 8.0 and works very reliably on my PCs the
>look on feel of KDE is superb.
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>I installed 8.1 on an old Compaq P75 based server yesterday this was a
>bit of a challenge due to the old nature of the hardware and the fact
>that the boot CD didn't have a driver for the on-board SCSI controller
>so it would not see the CD drive and hence would fail. 
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>With a bit of massaging and the use of boot floppies it installed well I
>have installed apache and it's web serving performance is blindingly
>fast, not bad for a P75.
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