I know that I'm having a few problems with my 9.1 distribution. Don't know the cause, but I can no longer get a login prompt on my virtual terminals. And YaST was giving me problems the other day when I wanted to change my X screen resolution. Since I didn't receive the 9.2 upgrade for Christmas, and some other expenses have come up, I've decided to backup my home directories to another computer, and reinstall 9.1 (which I paid for) and see if it works again. Will do a fresh install. Have to backup the system because 9.1 doesn't like XFS, so I'll have to reformat the drives first. I haven't tried WiFi yet with Suse, though it works on an old laptop with White Box Linux. But I took the easy route for my desktop and bought an external WiFi bridge.
-----Original Message----- From: Joe Polk [mailto:listuser@javelinux.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 2004 9:30 AM To: Michael W Cocke Cc: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] 9.1 > 9.2 question
Umm...well, I have to respond now don't I. Wish denied.
But seriously, I have given details in previous posts and have already outlined some of them in this thread. Look, I'm not shattering your belief system, it's just a single version of a distro. Calm down.
Goto your Games menu and look for the Chess game. Aha! The menu isn't setup right. Now goto to the KDE Menu Editor and try to fix it. If you're even close to successful it will take some time and fanagling.
WiFi going away? On my planet it's very popular. Not only that, the masses like it. It would behove a distro to support it. And let's try to support cards that you can actually walk in a retail store and by. For years all I heard was "My Orinoco works fine! I got it at "Obscureshit.com" for $35!" Again, it's in the best interest of all concerned to support popular hardware. I realize there are limits and obstacles, but make it a goal.
For the record, as I've already said, this was a fresh install. NOT an upgrade. But what if I did? If upgrading doesn't work, then my point is given even MORE weight, no? BTW this was a stock kernel on 2 different machines. Congrats that you have had a flawless installation. I bet, however, I could find problems in your menus if they haven't been altered and I'm confident I can illustrate problems with the menu editor. And I've already said these may be more of a problem with KDE than SuSE. Though the cosmetic problems are definitely SuSE and a QA issue.
I'm not angry here and in fact enjoy the discourse. I'm glad many have had a great experience with 9.2. I didn't and from what I've read many haven't. It's threads like this that I hope will make someone take notice and think about better QA, better support, better distro's in general. Please don't treat me like I'm advocating that we all give up and install XP! I consider this a friendly discussion. Though I admit, my intent is to challenge and get some attention to these issues so that version 10 is considerably better.
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I wish you'd stop top posting.
You don't give anything like details, but I haven't seen anything like what you mention in 9.2 yet, and I've been running it since the week it shipped. Sounds like you tried to "upgrade" rather than do a proper install.
Personally, I suspect Wi-Fi is going to be another flash in the pan. WEP will survive even a half-assed attack for a few minutes at best, and practically no one locks their hubs down properly, which makes for fascinating reading but lousy networks - I figure most of the people who are trying to use it are going to be moving to hardwire in a year or less, so I don't see a point in spending a lot of effort on it.
The whole hotplug idea is a major paradigm shift for linux, so I can see it taking a while to get there.
I do wish they'd stop fooling around with sound though. OSS, Alsa, etc., and about half of the applications work with a given sound system.
Mike-
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