[NTLUG:Discuss] re: what is the deal with SuSE?

[Fred]

On Thu, 18 Aug 2005 Leroy Tennison <leroy_tennison at prodigy.net>
wrote:
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?

=====================

Leroy, not sure about man, but as for the mouse I have never had a
problem with it picking up any of the mice that I've used. Maybe it's
telling you to either throw away that antique (not done) or RTFM
(which you did). I also have a few issues with SuSE, as I do with all
of the distros out there, but it works for me. 9.1 works so well that
I am considering an upgrade to 9.3.

Fred


		
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