HP/Compaq Presario and Linux

[Fred]

On Sun, 2005-01-30 at 14:12 -0500, Jeff Kinz wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 30, 2005 at 01:32:49PM -0500, John Abreau wrote:
> > On Sat, 2005-01-29 at 08:48, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> > > religiously, JABR does not like SuSE, and
> > ........
> > have always installed easily on the same machines that SuSE failed to 
> > install on. 
> 
> Ah, well then, that explains it.  You've been using the wrong
> machines.....   :)

All kidding aside, I've run into installation problems on the current
machine I am using with Fedora and RedHat. I was able to trace it back
to a quirk with APM and my particular bios -- it was then easy to get it
to install and run by passing a flag to the kernel to tell it to not use
APM.

You may be in a similar situation -- SuSE's default kernel may not agree
with your particular hardware for some reason. But can't say more than
that since I don't know the particulars.

I'm not impressed with distros anymore -- by the time I finish
reconfiguring the kernel, upgrading all the apps and adding more,
mucking about with KDE, etc., the only thing that remains vintage is the
splash screen at logon -- but only because I have not bothered to nuke
that as well. :-)

And as though the world needs yet another distro, perhaps I should
release one of my own one day just for fun. :-)

-- 
-Fred
Your government delights in doing things "for" you.
By the time it's too late, you'll realize it's being done *to* you.