Re: Possible convert
From: david (bdba22973_at_blueyonder.co.uk)
Date: 07/19/03
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Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2003 21:56:26 +0100
i used to use mandrake 9.1 but it wouldnt recognise my network card so i d/l
red hat 9.0 that was brilliant and recognised the soft ware i had then i
d/l suse 8.2 installed off an ftp it was better still suse is the distro
for me the other disks are now for porn storage :D
"John B" <Yochanon@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:2352863.XvyigtvlC4@Buy_me_a_shrubbery_or_I_will_say_NI!_to_you!.com...
> Joe, after spending 3 minutes figuring out which end of the pen to use,
wrote:
>
> > Jeff Allain <jallain12@earthlink.net> wrote in message
> > news:<NawRa.105867$Io.9060679@newsread2.prod.itd.earthlink.net>...
> >> I just installed Suse 8.2 after running Manrake for the past couple of
> >> years. I was blown away by the entire process. The install went without
a
> >> hitch, and everything I wanted was installed easily. The system works
> >> flawlessly, and I am very impressed with Suse. My daughter came home
from
> >> work and went to check her email. She said "Dad, I love your new
Linux." I
> >> believe I have just converted from Mandrake to Suse.
> >>
> >> Jeff Allain
> >
> > I wish I could say the same, but unfortunately the fonts in Suse 8.2
> > are horrible. I have an Nvidia Geforce 2 MX/MX400 video card that came
> > with my Dell 8100, and if I install the MS TTfonts from my XP
> > partition the fonts improve only slightly, and if I install the MS
> > TTfonts via Yast they are worse than before. Installing the latest
> > Nvidia driver via Yast made no difference at all, and have even
> > attempted a font fix posted by another user about a week ago without
> > any success. The install was perfect, all programs work as they
> > should, and I even like the manuals that came with the Pro box set,
> > however I recently reinstalled Mandrake 9.1 and the fonts are superb.
> > If only Suse's fonts were that good I'd have no reason to switch.
> >
> > Joe
>
> The fonts on my setup and a friends setup (both 8.2) are perfect.
Perhaps you
> unknowingly turned off anti-aliasing, or, have turned it on and maybe
didn't do
> an SuSEconfig after? (not sure if doing the SuSEconfig is necessary or the
> right thing, but it won't hurt anything either)
> Did you make sure that 3D is enabled after installing the nvidia driver?
You
> might want to download and install the nvidia driver the way nvidia says
in the
> install instructions, and make sure that at the lilo boot screen (where
you
> have the choice to boot into Linux, or safe mode, or windows (if you have
a
> windows partition)), type in 'init 3' (w/out the quotes of course), then
login
> as root and type in 'mc', or if you remember exactly where you placed the
> downloaded drivers, just type in the complete path and the command for it
to
> run, then reboot.
> I believe it's just got to be something you may have missed though,
somewhere,
> since most folk aren't having any troubles with the fonts (other than the
thing
> with Gnome I think,I don't use it, so I've only paid partial attention
about
> it). Hopefully it's just something simple, like the nvidia thing hasn't
really
> took hold and when you do like I said above, it'll clear things up (no pun
> intended).
>
> John
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