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Post by **The Beatles** » Sat Jul 15, 2006 6:49 pm

Put the first one in your drive and reboot. Make sure that your computer boots from the CD-drive before the harddrive. You can do this by pressing either F2, F12, or Esc (some other keys do the trick, watch what your computer says when it boots up) as your computer is booting up, then fiddle with the options (usually called "Boot Order") until you can boot from the CD-drive. Then follow the instructions. SUSE should take care of it all for you including partitioning.

Fresh Water Fighters · Mon Jul 17, 2006 1:05 pm

I have finished installing SUSE. It is working well except that it does not detect that my graphics card supports 3d.

Post by **windhound** » Mon Jul 17, 2006 1:09 pm

that's normal. google or look up some SuSe repos, or I'm sure Beatles and Devari have their preferences

the 3D drivers are pro.. somthin. the free distros cannot legally include them. but you can download and install them all the same. same with DVD, MP3, etc. playback

its easiest if the card is ati or nvidia, but the drivers for the intel etc. chips are also out there

Fresh Water Fighters · Mon Jul 17, 2006 1:25 pm

The card I have is NVIDIA GeForce 2 MX/MX 400.
I installed the NVIDIA driver using YOU, restarted, but it still doen not work.

Post by **windhound** » Mon Jul 17, 2006 1:37 pm

http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_ia32_1.0-8762.html
http://www.suse.de/~sndirsch/nvidia-installer-HOWTO.html#3

*shrug* that seems like what you did, using YOU anyhow

as a test, run glxgears in a terminal

Post by **The Beatles** » Mon Jul 17, 2006 9:55 pm

I think SUSE has a script to set up NVIDIA. Sorry I can't remember exactly how. Maybe if you install the package with yast.
There's a howto here:
http://en.opensuse.org/NVIDIA

but I didn't have to do ANYTHING that complicated -- just some point and clicks. Try it though.

Post by **bjornredtail** » Tue Aug 29, 2006 5:20 am

Say, Beatles, does your recomendation for Suse 10.0 still hold? I got this new laptop with a largely empty hard drive and I am intrested in dual booting between the preinstalled Windoze Media Center version and a Linux distro.

Post by **The Beatles** » Tue Aug 29, 2006 5:46 am

Very much so. I don't anticipate migrating from SUSE for the foreseeable future, I quite love it.

Post by **bjornredtail** » Tue Aug 29, 2006 6:03 am

Only 7 hours remaining on the download...

Post by **windhound** » Tue Aug 29, 2006 6:11 am

http://en.opensuse.org/Download

BEFORE YOU INSTALL READ THIS:

The package manager in SUSE 10.1 is regrettably broken on most systems. To correct this you should do the following after you have installed SUSE:
...

that confuses me. why did SuSe release a broken system? if 10.0 worked, why not roll back?

Post by **The Beatles** » Wed Aug 30, 2006 3:52 am

Because it's a community one. I believe that Novell's official releases are actually SLED and OpenSUSE 10.0. At least, as far as I can tell. Anyways, 10.0 is still available.

I think the devs just wanted to get out a release with lots of eye candy and stuff. Just to say, we've got XGL or whatever. Then probably didn't fix it out of laziness/technicall difficulty.

Post by **bjornredtail** » Wed Aug 30, 2006 5:34 am

Okay... Some MAJOR graphics problems to Iron out. (and to think, I got the Nvidia GPU for it's suposidly superior Linux support)

Post by **Devari** » Wed Aug 30, 2006 5:43 am

Recent Nvidia card? And 10.1 or 10.0?

Post by **The Beatles** » Wed Aug 30, 2006 6:05 am

Nvidia card here with 10.0, detected flawlessly, even a nice GUI to configure its options in YAST.

Post by **bjornredtail** » Wed Aug 30, 2006 6:12 am

Ge Force Go 7300 on 10.0... So yes, a recent card. Perhaps I set the resoulation too high? How do I check it without the graphics system working?

Oh, 1280 by 800 is resoulation on windows Side... For my own refrence...

EDIT: Trying system rescue from boot DVD...

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