Re: [MLUG] SuSE

[Michael <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

> ya well, ... I bit the dust again.  ARG!!!
> 
> I went into the control panel of SuSE and started tweaking some stuff,
> and it locked up big time.  I was just so tired of it I hardkilled the
> machine and put the Linux harddrive on the shelf.
> 
> You guys are obviously better men than me.  I'm just not getting what
> you see in this.  (ok, freedom from M$, ... and I would like that too
> .....) but now I'm back on XP Pro just so I can get some work done.
> 
> Honestly now, here's what I'm wondering....  Could one of you guys
> REALLY come to my home office, install RH or Debian, and in a reasonable
> amount of time get both monitors working right, my scanner, digital
> camera card reader, and CD burner?

Could.. but I'm in the wrong state. :)

> You know, if ol' Billy knew how much time I've been spending trying to
> not have anything to do with him, he'd be laughing his butt off at me.

I've never had that much problem with it. Even compiling X for my first 
time and setting up dual heads without any documentation took me less 
trouble than you've evidently had. I still suspect you have a hardware 
glitch that just happens to be tickled by Linux but goes unnoticed in 
XP. It happens sometimes. :)


-- 
"At what price learning? At what cost wisdom?"
"The price is a man's peace of mind, and the cost is his life."
                                            Kampus, by james e. gunn

Michael <EMAIL:PROTECTED>
http://kavlon.org

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