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Donald Henson

30 Oct 2003 30 Oct '03

18:32

Well, I took the plunge and did an upgrade from 8.2 rather than a clean install. I had a full backup in case anything went wrong but it went very smoothly. It was encouraging as well as discouraging that three problems I had before the upgrade were still there after the upgrade. Apparently, those are my problems to resolve. Anyway, I just wanted to add my experience to those of others who have reported their upgrade/install experiences. Don Henson

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jfweber＠bellsouth.net

30 Oct 30 Oct

09:01

New subject: [SLE] SuSE 9.0 Upgrade

On Thursday 30 October 2003 01:32 pm, Donald Henson wrote:

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Well, I took the plunge and did an upgrade from 8.2 rather than a clean install. I had a full backup in case anything went wrong but it went very smoothly. It was encouraging as well as discouraging that three problems I had before the upgrade were still there after the upgrade. Apparently, those are my problems to resolve. Anyway, I just wanted to add my experience to those of others who have reported their upgrade/install experiences.

Don Henson

yup, my install on the E-machine/monorail went smoothly once the basic setup was done. IF it can seem to be faster on this old thing, it really IS faster . ;^) I'm writing this on that box now. it even boots pretty quickly... which is kinda nice cause my main box, which is awaiting a new video card is a pretty quick SCSI 3 box ... I am wondering if there is any way the video problems that finally popped up ( no way for a normal person , over 21 to read anything on the screen.) It's got grey stripes on a darker grey background... ( can NOT get a "white" colour in any app! ) Most Omoshiroii ! But , if there's a hardware guru in the house, is it possible that the failing card caused some of the problems ( basically randomness, as to files getting actually saved , settings in anything actually taking hold, and just a lot of sloooow mollases opening and closing of anything. Programs that were perfectly happy to open from links on the desktop now refuse to open at all... even root cant get them to open. Nothing has been removed or installed since the video went blammo.. so I can't for the life of me figure out how this card could actually be changing permissions 9 my email program refuses to run , even if I try to run it as root ( bad practice, I know.. but I was trying to figure out what has happened.. Execute permissions have been , somehow deleted.. And none of the usual commandline changes stick either. it's weird... And it's getting worse ... I think I'm going to just shut it down til the replacement card shows up. does that seem like a reasonable approach to this problem? Fortunately I have almost everything backed up... TIA for any input, Anders? , j

LinuxWorld999

31 Oct 31 Oct

08:11

New subject: [SLE] SuSE 9.0 Upgrade

----- Original Message ----- From: To: "Donald Henson" ; Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2003 9:01 AM Subject: Re: [SLE] SuSE 9.0 Upgrade

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On Thursday 30 October 2003 01:32 pm, Donald Henson wrote:

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Well, I took the plunge and did an upgrade from 8.2 rather than a clean install. I had a full backup in case anything went wrong but it went very smoothly. It was encouraging as well as discouraging that three problems I had before the upgrade were still there after the upgrade. Apparently, those are my problems to resolve. Anyway, I just wanted to add my experience to those of others who have reported their upgrade/install experiences.

Don Henson

yup, my install on the E-machine/monorail went smoothly once the basic setup was done. IF it can seem to be faster on this old thing, it really IS faster . ;^) I'm writing this on that box now.

it even boots pretty quickly... which is kinda nice cause my main box, which is awaiting a new video card is a pretty quick SCSI 3 box ... I am wondering if there is any way the video problems that finally popped up ( no way for a normal person , over 21 to read anything on the screen.) It's got grey stripes on a darker grey background... ( can NOT get a "white" colour in any app! ) Most Omoshiroii ! But , if there's a hardware guru in the house, is it possible that the failing card caused some of the problems ( basically randomness, as to files getting actually saved , settings in anything actually taking hold, and just a lot of sloooow mollases opening and closing of anything. Programs that were perfectly happy to open from links on the desktop now refuse to open at all... even root cant get them to open. Nothing has been removed or installed since the video went blammo.. so I can't for the life of me figure out how this card could actually be changing permissions 9 my email program refuses to run , even if I try to run it as root ( bad practice, I know.. but I was trying to figure out what has happened.. Execute permissions have been , somehow deleted.. And none of the usual commandline changes stick either. it's weird... And it's getting worse ... I think I'm going to just shut it down til the replacement card shows up. does that seem like a reasonable approach to this problem? Fortunately I have almost everything backed up...

<snip> Does this problem arise only when the Nvidia drivers are used? If the generic "nv" driver is used, is the display alright.? LW999

jfweber＠bellsouth.net

18:07

New subject: [SLE] SuSE 9.0 Upgrade

On Friday 31 October 2003 03:11 am, LinuxWorld999 wrote:

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----- Original Message ----- From: To: "Donald Henson" ; Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2003 9:01 AM Subject: Re: [SLE] SuSE 9.0 Upgrade

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box ... I am wondering if there is any way the video problems that finally popped up ( no way for a normal person , over 21 to read anything on the screen.) It's got grey stripes on a darker grey background... ( can NOT get a "white" colour in any app! ) Most Omoshiroii ! But , if there's a hardware guru in the house, is it possible that the failing card caused some of the problems ( basically randomness, as to files getting actually saved , settings in anything actually taking hold, and just a lot of sloooow mollases opening and closing of anything. Programs that were perfectly happy to open from links on the desktop now refuse to open at all... even root cant get them to open. Nothing has been removed or installed since the video went blammo.. so I can't for the life of me figure out how this card could actually be changing permissions 9 my email program refuses to run , even if I try to run it as root ( bad practice, I know.. but I was trying to figure out what has happened.. Execute permissions have been , somehow deleted.. And none of the usual commandline changes stick either. it's weird... And it's getting worse ... I think I'm going to just shut it down til the replacement card shows up. does that seem like a reasonable approach to this problem? Fortunately I have almost everything backed up...

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Does this problem arise only when the Nvidia drivers are used? If the generic "nv" driver is used, is the display alright.?

LW999

yeah, no matter what it's a fried card, the say. IF the new versio fixors it , well and good. But I don't thinkit's the driver this time ( I have the version that isn't broken installed ( don't know what it's number is, and no way to find out now <G>) 49 something?? Not the latest one that seems to have everyone going crazy w/ the problems involved and associated w/ that specific driver. WIsh There were some easy way to just install now, even if it does want us to install from "safe" mode ( well, if yast isnt' going to do it , probably better to install from the commandline... ) Still, there isn't any reason to have to compile , or create teh files that make the thing belive I've compiled the kernal. Teh "vanilla" athlon Kernal is fine for these boxen, haven't yet found any reason to compile a kernal.

Stanley Long

01:02

New subject: [SLE] SuSE 9.0 Upgrade

On Thu, 2003-10-30 at 09:32, Donald Henson wrote:

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Well, I took the plunge and did an upgrade from 8.2 rather than a clean install. I had a full backup in case anything went wrong but it went very smoothly. It was encouraging as well as discouraging that three problems I had before the upgrade were still there after the upgrade. Apparently, those are my problems to resolve. Anyway, I just wanted to add my experience to those of others who have reported their upgrade/install experiences.

Don Henson

Starting about SuSE 8.0, the developers lost some nice fvwm desktop stuff. Mostly it was typos in the config, but also some missing graphics files. I just did a 7.2 install to get all the graphics, then ran through to 8.2. YAST still does nicely, and everything runs well. On the 8.2 upgrade SAX didn't believe the monitor numbers I in XF86Config for an older 20" Mitsubishi RGB cad monitor as the second screen. Calling SAX from YAST allowed the correction while in X. All that is fine now. Stanley Long Anchorage

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