Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2995 mails)

[Aaron Kulkis <akulkis00@xxxxxxxxxx>]

mukul wrote:
> Well, if you can't help then it is fine.


Excuse me, but pointing you in the direction you
came from (i.e. a working system) isn't helping?

It might not be the answer YOU WANTED, but it
is a helpful answer.  Sometimes the answer you
want is not a helpful one.

You need to understand that.


> And what is with this lecturing?

Sometimes people need it.



> M
>
> PS : I have done a clean install now and will see how things go.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Aaron Kulkis [mailto:akulkis00@xxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: Friday, 2 November 2007 12:04 PM
> To: opensuse@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [opensuse] Bye bye opensuse...
>
> mukul wrote:
> > I have got quite a decent set of hardware. I can let
>  > you know the specs if needed. Regarding the x server
>  > dying and not wanting to come up and no possible
>  > solution in sight apart from reinstalling it, I decided
>  > to move away from openSuse. BTW, this problem started
>  > after I installed some updates which were pushed out
>  > yesterday and since then it started to complain about
>  > drivers for mouse, my graphics card etc. It used to
>  > work fine before that.
>
> Well, then roll back to the previous version.
>
> Ubuntu and Mandriva use the same X server software,
> so if a patch used by SuSE is bad, it's going to be
> just as flaky on Mandriva and Ubuntu until the
> guys maintaining the X server fix it.
>
> The only other solution for you is to replace
> the X server with a commercial one....and that
> doesn't matter which distro you use.  And there's
> no guarantee that a commercial product will be
> bug-free forever, either.
>
> Really, your reaction to this whole thing reminds
> me of a 3-year old throwing a temper tantrum
> because his wooden block tower fell over when he
> put another block on, and now it's the end of
> the world.


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