Re: have just gone back to 10.1 from 10.2

Toe Dipper schreef:
Was using 10.1 for about 2 months and decided to upgrade to 10.2.

Did a clean install.

But have gone back to 10.1 due to wireless network problems.

In 10.1 I use ndiswrapper and the windows .inf file for my ralink rt2500
based card. Works a treat.

Moved up to 10.2 and noticed that it had the rt2500 driver built in.
Well it would not work at all, it just not would pick up a strong enough
signal from my wireless network.

Thought it might have been the card so tried unbuntu, kubuntu and
mandriva and they all worked fine. The card reported a good signal.

So tried 10.2 again and the same again, no signal at all. 10.2 could
see and configure the card ok but there was just no traffic / signal.

Another issue was the latest 10.2 nvidia drivers did not support my
monitor default refresh rate. It's a samsung syncmaster 710 driven by a
geoforce 5200 card. The recommended resolution and refresh rate is 1280
x 1024 @ 75hz . I can get this ok in 10.1 using the 10.1 nvidia driver
but I could not get in in 10.2, my monitor refresh rate where limited to
50,55,56 and 57 hz.

However in 10.2 if I then uninstalled the nvidia drivers I could get
75hz no probs.

I think Suse is the best distribution out there but I'm going to wait a
few months as no doubt they will release an updated 10.2 dvd with some
bug ironed out.

toe

I'm running 10.2 on a laptop compaq armada 500mhz 256MB and also running
a wireles ralink rt2500 based card, and it's running very well. I run
ndiswrapper because the default Suse driver didn't work at all. If you
install ndiswrapper you must install ndiswrapper-kmp-xx (xx =
kerneltype) otherwise ndiswrapper doesn't run.

About nvidia. The best way to install the latest drivers for nvidia card
is to compile the drivers from the nvidia source file. Read the manual
carefully !

http://www.nvidia.com/content/drivers/drivers.asp


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