I'm installing suse 10.0 onto a p3 550 with 320 mb of ram, plenty of hard drive space, etc. It makes it through the entire install process with no problems until the "Hardware Configuration" and then it just stays there and doesn't respond. I can't make changes or go back or skip or anything. When I reboot the system, it runs me through Grub, I select suse 10.0 to boot instead of windows, it runs through all of the linux checks, prompts me for a username and password (on a command line interface) and then keeps me at a command line. How come the KDE environment doesn't load? Did the hardware config hanging not set up the video card or something? Is there a command line way to run the hardware configuration so I can get into KDE? When I type kde into the command line, it tries to load, then gives me video errors and aborts the loading. Any ideas on what to do next? I'm not much of a command line guru, so take it easy on me!

11/13/2005 1:46:43 PM

running suse and kde on that setup is not going to be fun. try messing with the X settings with nano/pico/vi/vim/whatever and then typing startx. booting not-graphically is a good idea though

11/13/2005 2:21:07 PM

as long as you have a seperate AGP video card (with enough ram - probaby 32mb min) that should be enough power for 10.0/KDE

having just installed suse 10 er, 3 times to get the installation just right, I had that no-gui error on the initial reboot once. Just go back and re-install, worked fine all the other times.

Couple of other things I've noticed:
- It seems to complain less if you don't mess with the package lists in the install process - Yast makes that very easy once you're in KDE
- Use KDE - Gnome just doesn't work right with this distribution it seems.
- Put http source packman.iu-bremen.de with directory suse/10.0/ in your Yast software sources, then search for the following packages to un-neuter it for mp3 and divx

w32codec-all
mplayer

Here are a couple of helpful pages:
http://www.thejemreport.com/mambo/content/view/178/42/
http://slackerlx.blogspot.com/2005/10/adding-packman-site-in-suse.html

[Edited on November 13, 2005 at 2:26 PM. Reason : asf]

11/13/2005 2:25:15 PM