10.1 Alpha 4 - Experience Log

To start off I'm actually hoping for a lot of post and I hope this could be good gauge for the developers.

After I upgraded from my modded (personally installed rpms like crossover office, packman and guru packages) retail 10 to 10.1 Alpha I noticed the speed boost in the KDE environment (haven't tried Gnome yet). Some things were missing like java, real player, etc. but I reinstalled them afterwards. I got most if not all amenities working fine. Everything seems to "pop" open an move pretty quickly.

The upgrade did not come without a few problems. After the initial boot the system froze. I had a few freezes afterward but I narrowed it down to power management. The system locked up a few times but that was due to Mono (I don't know why but on the two systems I have SuSE installed on, if Mono is not monitored (killed) it soaks up all my ram, runs the processor at 100%, and occupies all the swap. weird.)

One thing that bothered me about alpha 4 was manual installation was required, so I decided not to bother. When I tried alpha 3, everything worked pretty well, including the install. I was impressed that alpha 3 worked perfectly on a Toshiba laptop, something that's never happened with previous versions of Suse.

One thing that bothered me about alpha 4 was manual installation was required, so I decided not to bother. When I tried alpha 3, everything worked pretty well, including the install. I was impressed that alpha 3 worked perfectly on a Toshiba laptop, something that's never happened with previous versions of Suse.
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manual installation? expound.

When I said manual, I just meant text based. I'm not afraid of text based installation since I've done it many times. I'm just wondering why the developers thought it was necessary to revert to a text based installation in alpha 4 when there was a graphical installation in alpha 3. I tried alpha 4 on two different computers with the same results. I'm not complaining too much though, since this is an alpha release.

When I said manual, I just meant text based. I'm not afraid of text based installation since I've done it many times. I'm just wondering why the developers thought it was necessary to revert to a text based installation in alpha 4 when there was a graphical installation in alpha 3. I tried alpha 4 on two different computers with the same results. I'm not complaining too much though, since this is an alpha release.
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Hmm, I just installed alpha 4 on my ppc, and I got a graphical installation. In fact, this was the first time that the settings for the display were correct from the first screen, I used to have garbled colors.

Hmm, I just installed alpha 4 on my ppc, and I got a graphical installation. In fact, this was the first time that the settings for the display were correct from the first screen, I used to have garbled colors.
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I had the same graphical install experiance. Why would it go text install?

It would go text if it couldn't get the video to work. Mis-identified hardware or
an acpi interference problem would be where I would look. If you can't
get the graphical install, I would ancipate that on first boot the
X server won't start either...but you never know!

OK, since this is a general thread about alpha experience: I installed alpha 4, and everything was very smooth. I have one problem though: I cannot log in as a normal user. Logging in as root works, but no matter what I do, every normal user I create is refused with "login incorrect." I tried adding users with YaST and on the command line via useradd, nothing worked. Does that ring a bell with anybody? Any suggestions short of reinstalling?

OK, since this is a general thread about alpha experience: I installed alpha 4, and everything was very smooth. I have one problem though: I cannot log in as a normal user. Logging in as root works, but no matter what I do, every normal user I create is refused with "login incorrect." I tried adding users with YaST and on the command line via useradd, nothing worked. Does that ring a bell with anybody? Any suggestions short of reinstalling?
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I'm very new to this, but I recently reinstalled 10.1 Alpha 4 over Suse 10, and had the same problem. I clicked the options button on the lower left of screen, and selected KDE login, and no furthur problem. I still can't updatte it though as yast tries to connect through sit0 instead of eth0. ??????????

I'm very new to this, but I recently reinstalled 10.1 Alpha 4 over Suse 10, and had the same problem. I clicked the options button on the lower left of screen, and selected KDE login, and no furthur problem. I still can't updatte it though as yast tries to connect through sit0 instead of eth0. ??????????
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I haven't encountered that problem but have you posted this issue on the mailing list?