[Sderby] Suse help!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Arno J.J. Brevoort]

Hi Norman,

Sometimes a bit more handholding is helpful -- it's been a while since I
did a fresh Linux install, and it's always a bit of a challenge. In my
experience there's always a few things to tweak and bang into behaving
correctly. (the same applies to Windows as well -- I've always had to
download driver updates for any fresh installation to get all the features
working proper)

I would be glad to help you out a bit, if I can -- and I'm sure you'll
find some other friendly souls here.

What we'd need to help you out though, is loads of information about your
setup. As much as you can possibly give. It's also useful to start fixing
problems one at a time.

Perhaps a nice one to start with would be to get your graphics working
properly.

What kind of graphics card do you have?
What kind of chipset is it?
What kind / brand of monitor do you have connected to it?
What resolution would you want to be working with?
What bit depth would you want to be working with?

Cheers,

Arno


On Mon, 14 Mar 2005, simon lewsley wrote:

> Norman
>
> May I suggest that you learn a bit more about computers and maybe even
> go back to windows (waits to get shot for that comment) either that or
> change your books cos there is a steep learning curve to Linux even with
> the more windows like distros such as suse and mandrake (mike don't u
> dare block my email for the suse comment :P). Any one can use a Linux
> box as a desktop which im assuming is what you want to use it for but to
> actually set it up and to make items like printers / scanners work
> (which is esp a pain when the manufacturer doesn't support Linux) can be
> troublesome and relies on some basic principles to assist you. For
> example if ur graphics are not right then u need to try changing the
> drivers (are us using an NVIDIA card? If so are u on nv driver or the
> official NVIDIA one? Same applies for ati) or ur res in
> /etc/X11/xorg.conf or XF86free depending on what ur sys uses, if you
> cant received emails then is your pop3 server accessible? Can you ping
> it / telnet to it? Did you mis type the addy or is the firewall blocking
> it? What are ur internet problems? I assuming its routing and u have dns
> if your able to send emails (I assume ur sending to a dns name not an
> ip) so sounds like something specific to http or port 80 its using,
> again firewall config is worth checking.
>
> I suggest throwing individual questions at this list if you do want to
> continue with getting ur Linux install right and work on one at a time,
> describing the problems, any errors and paste any relevant parts of your
> logs. At least that way u learn it for urself. Just remember to ask for
> a bit of an explanation as to why its happened, of course u could just
> cheat and ask for specific config files. google is also a good resource
> (google for your distro and printer model IE  gentoo-2004.03 hp DeskJet
> 5530 and im sure there will be a guide online offering step by step
> instructions).
>
>
>
> Regards
>
>
> Simon
>
>
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