Maura Edelweiss Monville wrote:
--- Philippe Landau <lists@user-land.org> wrote:
Maura Edelweiss Monville wrote:
Therefore X was messed up ... how come ? It worked fine up to the night before. I turned off the computer in the end of my working session. An update could be the culprit.
I noticed that my laptop is being updated pretty frequently. When I am notified that some new patches are ready I am at a loss whether to install them or not.
Maura, You can generally rely on the online updates not breaking things. I haven't followed the entire thread, but from the list, it seems that 64bit systems are more prone to an update glitch than the 32bit systems. I regularly (every few days) make sure I am completely updated with online update or zypper up and I haven't experienced any serious problems on my Toshiba laptop. I have had ATI driver problems after updates, but nothing that prevented me from using the display. The problem were with disappearing 3D acceleration, ATI driver lockups, etc. I could always use the display, but compiz, etc. would become unusable. Generally every week or so I will use software management to "update all packages if newer version is available." These can be significant package updates involving 400 - 800 Meg of updates. With the exception of xorg 7.3, I haven't had any problems with these updates either. I second the good advise about waiting several days after an update is released before installing it if it is on a critical computer. You can always check the list and if there is an update problem, most likely it will be found within a day. What graphics card do you have? ATI, nVidia? Also, do you have an update source for your graphics card added as a repository? These can be problematic, especially if you have an ATI card. Good luck -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org