[Sderby] Suse 8.1 problems

[Russ]

Tony this email has come to the wrong address please redirect.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tony Martin" <tony.martin11@ntlworld.com>
To: <sderby@mailman.lug.org.uk>
Sent: Saturday, January 18, 2003 10:17 PM
Subject: Re: [Sderby] Suse 8.1 problems


> 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:
> >  
> >
> >>Possible, but have heard other reports of 8.1 being a bit buggy.
> >>Any other people have experience?
> >>Ta Tony
> >>
> >>    
> >>
> >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. 
> >
> >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.
> >
> >8.1 is certainly faster than 8.0 and works very reliably on my PCs the
> >look on feel of KDE is superb.
> >
> >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. 
> >
> >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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