OT : openSuSE 11

Well, that was an hour of my life I'll never get back.

Installed it on a spare bit of hdd on the Sony VGN A197VP lappy.

Obvious problems:-
Brightness/volume/zoom/soft DVD eject buttons do nothing.
Hardward graphics acceleration missing.

Now I might have been content to sit there playing round browsing and
downloading shit trying to fix stuff but for the biggie:-

touch pad absolutely useless, the cursor only responds when it wants
to, most of the time doing nothing until I wiggle finger round trackpad
like mad, then it moves, for a second, then back to being dead.

I'll leave it to fester until I see someone has a fix.

Or clobber it and put something else interesting [1] on.





[1] Interesting from the point of view of a geek who likes fiddling
with stuff and getting things working, but doesn't like things being
*that* frustrating.

 

Linux distro in unsupported hardware shocker.... whatever next !

 

Probably goes to the petrol station and grabs any old pump and then
complains that his bike doesn't run properly with diesel.

For the hard of web searching

http://en.opensuse.org/HCL/Laptops/Sony

Download a free operating system, don't even bother to read the hardware
compatibility list, then have the audacity to complain that it doesn't
work properly.


Besides, someone already tried it with an earlier Linux distro

http://www.siglost.org/vgna197vp/#softbuttons

Maybe this link will allow him to spend many more quality hours on an
interesting solution to his problem.

http://sony-tools.homeunix.net/

 

Nah, only dozy, sleepy people do that.

Does that page have an A197? Eh? Eh? Well? Does it? Does it relate to
openSuSE 11? Eh? Eh?

TBH it does cover a lot of the issues but "touchpad too sensitive" in
NO way covers the problem mine has got.

Think touchpad with narcolepsy.

Of course. I'm a bloke. You expect blokes to read things?

Its interesting that only SuSE has this problem. Ubuntu (and slackware,
Fedora, and a few others) all managed to get the mouse working
perfectly.

Yes, yes, yes, "why don't you use one of those then?", is not the
point, I don't actually *use* linux on the lap/desktop, I just like
seeing what the latest distros are like.

See? Now haven't you got a warm, rosey feeling somewhere inside you
because you've helped a fellow human being?

 

I've been trying to get a RedHat installation to work on a Blade
Server, everything's fine 'cept the network doesn't want to work.

Hoping when I go into work on Monday it will have miraculosly fixed
itself over the weekend. [1]

[1] One can dream
--
Richard

XJ900S
BOTAFOT #138, YTC#18, OMF#12

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Heh.

For wireless networks (could be unique to the Sony lappy as my survey
consisted of 1 machine), Ubuntu was [1] best.

It just worked.



[1] Post tense, as openSuse 11 "just worked" re. the wifi

 

FFS just download Solaris 10 or OpenSolaris if the world must look
Linuxy to you.

 

You're my new hero

 

I got Suse-11 running as VMWare hosted on a Fedora 7 system. Seems ok so
far.