Suse 9: A first look from a long time RHL user

Suse 9: A first look from a long time RHL user

Posted Nov 14, 2003 8:20 UTC (Fri) by einstein (subscriber, #2052)
In reply to: Suse 9: A first look from a long time RHL user by allesfresser
Parent article: Review: SuSE Linux 9 (NewsForge)

Sure - the most recent system I SUSE-ized is my $229 Fry's computer. It's an amd duron 1100 that came with 128 MB RAM and an asian redhat knockoff called "thiz linux" - the computer is of chinese origin, from a company called GC (Great Computers) and all the motherboard functions are based on sis chipsets , including onboard video, sound, networking etc.

I installed Redhat 9 to verify everything, then made a few changes as follows:

upped RAM from 128 to 512 MB
installed nvidia geforce 2
installed tv capture card

It took quite a bit of googling and downloading to get the tv card working with redhat, but eventually I got it to a somewhat functional state. I also did the usual drill with the nvidia drivers: download, install, edit the XF86Config, test, lather, rinse, repeat. I installed fedora core test 1, and fc t 3 as well, to track it's progress.

When the suse 9 CDs arrived, I installed SUSE of course, and the install process found and set up all the hardware, and even put a tv icon on my desktop which launched a viewer program for the tv card. The first time I launched it, it brought up a wizard that set up all the channels for me. (No googling, no man pages needed)

Another pleasant surprise was when I went into yast and saw that I could install the nvidia drivers, so I clicked my way through that. quite painless - sheesh, I didn't need to touch the XF86Config file at all - it just worked, next time I restarted the X server.

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