Failed Attempt at installing SuSE Linux on my VAIO notebook
When my new hard drive arrived, I had just attended the SuSE Linux Enterprise Roadshow and thought the latest release of SuSE looked amazing. I decided to give installing SuSE a try and to my surprise, I got caught up on something simple. I made it all the way through the install to the point of video configuration and SuSE couldn’t identify the LCD model being used by my Sony PCG-R505DL. I tried the basic LCD and Sony, but no joy with either. Why SuSE can’t choose a basic driver to use when Ubuntu has no issue with this, is beyond me. Anyway, I gave up after an hour of trial and error with different configuration tests.
In the next few months, I’ll be trying this distro out on what is my Windows XP box being decommissioned. I think the hardware on that machine should be easy to identify and should perform very very well with SLED (SuSE Linux Enterprise Desktop).
