Avi, Did you upgrade or install from scratch? I tried the YaST2 upgrade route for 7.1... YaST2 hung trying to setup my Xserver with SaX2. So, I did what I usually do, upgrade from scratch.... Don't install everything and then realize you really didn't want all those games, the devel trees, the hylax fax stuff, GNOME, KDE1 and KDE2 plus CORBA and bonobo, KDevelop, xwpe,.....yada yada yada. I started my upgrade at 1:00pm Saturday afternoon. I got my Xserver running at 2:00am this Sunday morning... Rough install. Got Xwindows going by using SaX. The kernel it installed was 2.2.18 but the kernel tree it installed was 2.4. I uninstalled 2.4's source tree and put in the 2.2.18 source tree so I can recompile the kernel to get the scsi card and the paralle zip drive running again. JLK On Saturday 24 February 2001 22:15, Avi Schwartz wrote:

I couldn't wait any longer for my backordered 7.1 from SoftwareBuys.com so I canceled that order and went to my Local Best Buy to get 7.1 Pro. Upgraded my laptop and I can say only one thing: Wunderbar. Smoothest upgrade ever. Bravo!

Avi

Yup, that's what I had to do.... convert back to XF86Free 3.x. SaX2 hung trying to generate the XF86Config file. The mouse also when crazy. I'd tell it to us PS/2 and it decided that IBMPS/2 was what it wanted. Then my mouse would go wacko... Also, I tried the 2.4 kernel a month ago and found out that it that I couldn't run my Yamaha sound because YaST2's ALSA wouldn't recognize the chips (pre 1996) on the Sony VAIO motherboard. So, I went to the tried and true 4Front's OSS. Their 2.4 driver wouldn't work. They said they'd fix the problem and let me know. I never heard from them. Sour grapes clause: There's nothing in the 2.4 kernel that would benifit me... :-) On Sunday 25 February 2001 09:42, Avi Schwartz wrote:

Yes, I used the YAST2 upgrade and had no problem. What version of X11 were you running before the upgrade? I was already running 4.0.2 so that might have helped sine it didn't have to generate a new configuration file. In SuSE 7.0 when I tried to generate a XF86Config file for my laptop it would hang as well. I have a feeling that sax2 still needs some work done with it.

Avi

--On Sunday, February 25, 2001 02:52:11 AM -0600 Jerry Kreps

wrote:

...

Avi, Did you upgrade or install from scratch?

I tried the YaST2 upgrade route for 7.1... YaST2 hung trying to setup my Xserver with SaX2.

So, I did what I usually do, upgrade from scratch....

Don't install everything and then realize you really didn't want all those games, the devel trees, the hylax fax stuff, GNOME, KDE1 and KDE2 plus CORBA and bonobo, KDevelop, xwpe,.....yada yada yada. I started my upgrade at 1:00pm Saturday afternoon. I got my Xserver running at 2:00am this Sunday morning... Rough install. Got Xwindows going by using SaX. The kernel it installed was 2.2.18 but the kernel tree it installed was 2.4. I uninstalled 2.4's source tree and put in the 2.2.18 source tree so I can recompile the kernel to get the scsi card and the paralle zip drive running again. JLK

On Saturday 24 February 2001 22:15, Avi Schwartz wrote:

...

I couldn't wait any longer for my backordered 7.1 from SoftwareBuys.com so I canceled that order and went to my Local Best Buy to get 7.1 Pro. Upgraded my laptop and I can say only one thing: Wunderbar. Smoothest upgrade ever. Bravo!

Avi

The way I generated the 4.0.2 config file was to use sax2 in batch mode (non interactive). This way sax2 does not try to bring up the graphical display and doesn't ask you any questions. It generated an almost perfect XF86Config file. Avi --On Sunday, February 25, 2001 09:58:01 AM -0600 Jerry Kreps wrote:

Yup, that's what I had to do.... convert back to XF86Free 3.x. SaX2 hung trying to generate the XF86Config file. The mouse also when crazy. I'd tell it to us PS/2 and it decided that IBMPS/2 was what it wanted. Then my mouse would go wacko... Also, I tried the 2.4 kernel a month ago and found out that it that I couldn't run my Yamaha sound because YaST2's ALSA wouldn't recognize the chips (pre 1996) on the Sony VAIO motherboard. So, I went to the tried and true 4Front's OSS. Their 2.4 driver wouldn't work. They said they'd fix the problem and let me know. I never heard from them. Sour grapes clause: There's nothing in the 2.4 kernel that would benifit me... :-)

On Sunday 25 February 2001 09:42, Avi Schwartz wrote:

...

Yes, I used the YAST2 upgrade and had no problem. What version of X11 were you running before the upgrade? I was already running 4.0.2 so that might have helped sine it didn't have to generate a new configuration file. In SuSE 7.0 when I tried to generate a XF86Config file for my laptop it would hang as well. I have a feeling that sax2 still needs some work done with it.

Avi

--On Sunday, February 25, 2001 02:52:11 AM -0600 Jerry Kreps

wrote:

...

Avi, Did you upgrade or install from scratch?

I tried the YaST2 upgrade route for 7.1... YaST2 hung trying to setup my Xserver with SaX2.

So, I did what I usually do, upgrade from scratch....

Don't install everything and then realize you really didn't want all those games, the devel trees, the hylax fax stuff, GNOME, KDE1 and KDE2 plus CORBA and bonobo, KDevelop, xwpe,.....yada yada yada. I started my upgrade at 1:00pm Saturday afternoon. I got my Xserver running at 2:00am this Sunday morning... Rough install. Got Xwindows going by using SaX. The kernel it installed was 2.2.18 but the kernel tree it installed was 2.4. I uninstalled 2.4's source tree and put in the 2.2.18 source tree so I can recompile the kernel to get the scsi card and the paralle zip drive running again. JLK

On Saturday 24 February 2001 22:15, Avi Schwartz wrote:

...

I couldn't wait any longer for my backordered 7.1 from SoftwareBuys.com so I canceled that order and went to my Local Best Buy to get 7.1 Pro. Upgraded my laptop and I can say only one thing: Wunderbar. Smoothest upgrade ever. Bravo!

Avi

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