Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3964 mails)

["L. Mark Stone" <lmstone@xxxxxxxxx>]

I've been running SuSE 9.2 Pro for a few days, so I thought it might be 
helpful to report what I have found.

First, a BIG THANK YOU to SuSE for fixing the dpt_i2o kernel module! We have a 
bunch of client sites running servers with SCSI controllers depending upon 
this module.  Those boxes can now be upgraded freely when appropriate.

Second, the fit and finish is excellent. KDE and the whole system seems 
noticeably snappier (Athlon 1.2MHz w/ 1GB RAM.) than 8.2 and 9.1.

Third, kpilot found, set up and sync'd with my Palm Zire 31 without any hand 
fiddling of the visor module. No module recompile, modprobing nor symlink 
setup was needed. It just worked! Kudos!

But there are a few nits (which I will report on the web site later today...) 
we found.

1. apcupsd was apparently compiled without usb support, so the daemon won't 
talk to our APC Back UPS 350s anymore. Worked fine in 8.2...

2. nvu, at version 0.41 was missing the CSS editor. From the nvu web site it 
looks like the CSS editor was part of that version.  At Pat Shanahan's 
suggestion, we uninstalled the SuSE nvu rpm and installed the binary 0.50 
version from the nvu web site. The CSS editor now appears in the program 
menus.

3. The KDE "Save Session" functionality seems to have some new defects when 
logging in to a fresh KDE session. First, (video card is a Matrox G450 dual 
head in traditional, 2-screen mode), the system launches gkrellm on screen 
one, even though we only run it on screen two. Second, the system won't 
launch vmware, even though it is running (with no running vm's) when we hit 
the "Save Session" button. This worked fine in 8.2 as well. We even updated 
KDE from the bundled 3.1 version to the (unsupported) 3.1.1 version to no 
avail, even using the rpms released as of yesterday.

4. The clamav packages generate errors (we also installed amavis) when 
updating virus definitions. Freshclam complains that it can't notify clamd on 
port 3310.  Ann Hopkins suggested a fix that worked in the past for her, but 
it didn't work for us.  We tried both the rc3 rpms bundled with 9.2, as well 
as the plain .80 packages from the projects tree on ftp.suse.com. SuSE has 
announced that new rpms are soon to be made available via YOU, so we'll see 
what happens then. Possibly could also be a firewall configuration issue, but 
we'll wait for the new clam rpms and then test again first.

5. The KDE Control Center Font Installer in Administrator mode now changes 
font names to all lowercase when installing third party fonts. Not a problem 
in and of itself, but to get OpenOffice to see Type1 fonts installed on the 
system (without using spadmin) automagically, OpenOffice requires that the 
*.afm files be copied into the same directory in which the font files were 
installed. We always had to do that *.afm copying manually, but now we have 
to rename the afm files to be all lowercase, which we never had to do before.  
Took us a while to figure this one out.

That's about it so far!

Best regards to all,
Mark
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