[NTLUG:Discuss] What is the deal with SuSE

[Leroy Tennison]

What implementation of 'man' are they using?  It doesn't support 'man -K 
...' and seems limited (no entry for XF86Config !?)

Also, what hardware detection mechanism are they using?  I admittedly 
have an odd mouse (I *think* it is a beta wheel mouse I got from 
Microsoft years ago before they officially introduced it).  Fedora 
doesn't guess it right either but at least it's 'fixable' in the mouse 
selection part of installation.  Nothing helps with SuSE, I finally 
guessed my way through to the kernel parameter psmouse.proto=bare (from 
Googling) and then SuSE detected 'new hardware'.  This time the 
Intellimouse Explorer worked and wrote XF86Config with

"Device" "/dev/mouse"

Prior to this it wrote

"Device" /dev/mice"    (or something like that)

Any ideas, comments, flames, etc?