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

[Peter Gavin]

Norman,
are you sure you emails working cos i sent you one 4 days ago and its 
come back as undeliverable???

regards, Pete

Arno J.J. Brevoort wrote:

>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:
>
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>>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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