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From: "Kiall Mac Innes" <kialllists@redpie.com>
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Subject: RE: [ILUG] Newbie seeks advice - Suse 7.2
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 23:06:27 +0100
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hehe sorry but if you hit caps lock twice the computer crashes?  theres one
ive never heard before... have you tryed Dell support yet? I think dell
computers prefer RedHat... (dell provide some computers pre-loaded with red
hat) i dont know for sure tho! so get someone elses opnion as well as
mine...

-----Original Message-----
From: ilug-admin@linux.ie [mailto:ilug-admin@linux.ie]On Behalf Of Peter
Staunton
Sent: 22 August 2002 19:58
To: ilug@linux.ie
Subject: [ILUG] Newbie seeks advice - Suse 7.2


Folks,

my first time posting - have a bit of Unix experience, but am new to Linux.


Just got a new PC at home - Dell box with Windows XP. Added a second hard
disk
for Linux. Partitioned the disk and have installed Suse 7.2 from CD, which
went
fine except it didn't pick up my monitor.

I have a Dell branded E151FPp 15" LCD flat panel monitor and a nVidia
GeForce4
Ti4200 video card, both of which are probably too new to feature in Suse's
default
set. I downloaded a driver from the nVidia website and installed it using
RPM.
Then I ran Sax2 (as was recommended in some postings I found on the net),
but
it still doesn't feature my video card in the available list. What next?

Another problem. I have a Dell branded keyboard and if I hit Caps-Lock
twice,
the whole machine crashes (in Linux, not Windows) - even the on/off switch
is
inactive, leaving me to reach for the power cable instead.

If anyone can help me in any way with these probs., I'd be really grateful -
I've searched the 'net but have run out of ideas.

Or should I be going for a different version of Linux such as RedHat?
Opinions
welcome.

Thanks a lot,
Peter

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