System: Dell Inspiron 1100
Distro: Suse 9.2, kernel 2.6.8-24, KDE 3.3.0
Dual Booting with Win XP
And I'm totally new to this OS.

Is Xfree86 running?
How do I know if Xfree86 is running? I ask because I read the adventures of two other people who put Linux on their Dell Inspiron and they both had trouble getting the video to work right. I had to input the video settings manually, but otherwise it seems fine.

What kind of testing or checking could I do to ensure that the video truly is correctly configured?

Thanks for your patience and help,
James Carruthers

Well, if you can see a graphical interface, and the picture quality looks suitably sharp, then everything's working fine

If you've got an Nvidia or ATI graphics card, and you want to get OpenGL working, then you'll have a bit more to do. I think the SuSE update program can sort out Nvidia drivers automatically, and you can get the ATI drivers from the ATI website.

No, SUSE 9.2 runs XOrg

But seriously: if you have a graphical display, it runs.

Thanks!

I don't suppose you guys could answser any of my other newbie questions in this forum?



James

I already tried to, but since some of them are SUSE specific, you may have more success in the SUSE subforum. Maybe you could ask a moderator to move those threads.