[SLE] SUSE 9.1 - BAH!
From: Basil Chupin (blchupin_at_tpg.com.au)
Date: 05/17/04
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Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 01:44:31 +1000 To: SLE <suse-linux-e@suse.com>
Sorry folks, but to me v9.1 is a damn waste of money, and a pain in the
bum to boot.
I was really looking forward to getting 9.1 but now am sorry I got it.
The annoyances may be small (from those I found so far) but nevertheless
they point out the lack of quality control of the product.
Firtsly, v9.1 is NOT modem friendly. It may be OK for those using it on
broadband - and those who wrote and tested it on broadband - but for me
who is on a dialup modem v9.1 is totally useless.
I've had a "soft" modem connected to my second machine (the one on which
everything is tested before being applied on my main computer - this
one, the one I'm typing this message on) for over 6 months and I've had
no problems with it while running v9.0 was released. I even had no
trouble with it when I installed the Mantel kernels of the 2.6.5+
variety. But I install v9.1 and nothing works.
To test what was what, I installed an external modem from my one of my
other computers - with the same result: 3 hours to download a 1Mb file.
Not to be deterred, I went out in the afternoon and bought a new modem -
just in case. Same result: VERY, VERY poor thruput. Pathetic is a better
description.
Anyway, I re-installed v9.0, made sure that all the settings were the
same as with v9.1 and - the modem is now "flying", downloading Mozilla
(13Mb) at 4.5Kb/s (aver) and without skipping a beat.
The other thing- how the heck do you turn-off the damn screen saver? or
rather stop the screen from blanking out after some (?)10 minutes or so?
With the screen saver turned off the screen blanks - to GREAT annoyance
to me - unless something is constantly displayed on the screen.
I'll throw another one in.
On every previous version of Suse the soundfonts for my sound card (SB
Live!) were installed without any hassle during the configuration of the
sound card.
But not in 9.1. 9.1 informs me that there are no soundfonts to be
installed on the CD, yet 9.0 (et alia) can find them.
Some weeks ago (23/3 actually) I mentioned that I had purchased a
tvtuner card with the Conexant 23x chipset and which v9.0 does not
recognise. I wrote to Suse tech and was advised that I needed the 2.6.x
default kernel and someone also mentioned that I needed the cx88 driver
(or something) but which is still being developed. I installed (on 9.0)
the Mantel kernel and got nowhere with having my Winfast DV2000 card
recognised and was looking forward to v9.1 because based on the comment
from Suse tech I assumed that v9.1 will recognise the card. I am
actaully dreading installing the card on the test computer to see if
v9.1 does recognise it because I suspect that it won't.
Anyone with a tvtuner card with the Conexant 23x chipset tell me if it
is recognised by Suse 9.1?
Cheers.
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