Re: SUSE in English

[Bruce Damkoehler <bfdamkoehler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

rambozo@mailandnews.com wrote:

> I recently installed SuSe 6.4 (the latest version) on my linux box
> because, for several reasons, I am eager to get away from Redhat.
> The only reason I went back to redhat is because, for some
> reason, Redhat is able to get 1024x768 X resolution on my old,
> crappy monitor, and no other distro i've tried can do this.
>
> As far as language issues are concerned, I would have been able
> to decipher some German because i've taken two years of German
> in school, but I had no need to.  Everything I used was either in
> both german and english, or in only english as a result of selecting
> english in the installer.
>
> Speaking of the installer, the text-based installer YAST is a quite
> different from the redhat installer, and not quite as user-friendly.
> The default settings are for german keyboards and german
> language, so make sure to change those.  I can't comment on the
> new, graphical installer, YAST2, because it requires a minimum of
> 48 mb RAM, which I fall 8 megs short of, and therfore refused to
> run on my system.
>
> It was my impression and understanding from various other
> discussions i read that Redhat RPMs and SuSE RPMs are not, in
> fact, compatible.  Thats why there are sometimes versions for both
> distros available.  The reason for this is that SuSE and Redhat
> organized things somewhat different in the directory tree, and so
> files need to be installed in different places or else programs can't
> find them.  But thats just my little-more-than-newbie understanding.
>
> -Josh
> (who just got back from Italy and is now on summer break, working
> at his school district's technology department and having much
> more free time to use for playing with linux)

As far as getting another distro to work like redhat, why don't you look
at your /etc/X11/XF86Config
from the redhat system and try to replicate it on the other system.
xf86config  is the text mode configuration utility .  Its always a good
idea to save a copy of your existing configuration file before changing
it.

The help text for xf86config says that XF86Config may also live in
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11 also, but I have never seen it there.