On Fri, May 07, 2004 at 02:29:42AM -0700, yoo hoo wrote:

--- "Andrei Verovski (aka MacGuru) L1" wrote:

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Anyone have received and installed SuSE 9.1? Any feedback is greatly appreciated. Well overall I have noticed it to be a bit faster than my 9.0 system.

Same here, though I upgraded from 8.2. Aside from problems with my DVD drive (I think that due to my RAID controller, and using 4 IDE ports, it lost connection to the drive in the middle of the installation procedure (at the point where it configures all the hardware controllers), so I had to install using the CDs in my CD burner), the installation went smoothly. Everything was immediately detected, even my 5.1 speakers. I did have to set the AC97 volume to 0 on my SB Live 5.1 to get rid of a loud beep on my speakers, but that was about it for the problems I encountered. I've got most my system up and running again already, with about 2 hours of work (I keep a separated /home partition), and now that I installed mplayer from packman I can happily watch all those video's on my computer again. :) All X problems I had under 8.2 (xmame slow when using graphic enhancing algorithms, mplayer not properly starting full-screen) are gone, so basically I'm a happy camper. Regards, Pieter Hulshoff

--- David Rankin wrote:

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My only complaint so far is that they for some reason decided to compile PHP '--without-mysql'

That one is going to catch a lot of people off guard. Not to mention those that would scratch their head at just what the --withmsql config directive is.

That's really weird... I don't see why they should ship PHP without the MySQL Support... BTW, what's that --withmsql directive? regards, Riccardo

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--- "Andrei Verovski (aka MacGuru) L1" wrote:

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Hi,

Anyone have received and installed SuSE 9.1?

Any feedback is greatly appreciated.

Andrei

Well overall I have noticed it to be a bit faster than my 9.0 system. I did a fresh install instead of an upgrade to any of those wondering so I dunno how that goes. My only complaint so far is that they for some reason decided to compile PHP '--without-mysql' which I didn't think to check until after about 4 hours of banging my head on my desk wondering why none of my scripts would connect to mysql.

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On Friday 07 May 2004 10:36 am, David Rankin wrote:

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My only complaint so far is that they for some reason decided to compile PHP '--without-mysql'

That one is going to catch a lot of people off guard. Not to mention those that would scratch their head at just what the --withmsql config directive is.

I think it should be submitted as a bug.... It's a showstopper for me.

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--- "Andrei Verovski (aka MacGuru) L1"

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Hi,

Anyone have received and installed SuSE 9.1?

Any feedback is greatly appreciated.

Andrei

Well overall I have noticed it to be a bit faster than my 9.0 system. I did a fresh install instead of an upgrade to any of those wondering so I dunno how that goes. My only complaint so far is that they for some reason decided to compile PHP '--without-mysql' which I didn't think to check until after about 4 hours of banging my head on my desk wondering why none of my scripts would connect to mysql.

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On Friday 07 May 2004 10:36 am, David Rankin wrote:

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My only complaint so far is that they for some reason decided to compile PHP '--without-mysql'

That one is going to catch a lot of people off guard. Not to mention

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that would scratch their head at just what the --withmsql config

Greg, See the php website. If I recall, the problem is that php no longer supplies its own version of the mysql headers given the frequent changes there. What was happening is that users had newer/different mysql headers and libs that would conflict with the php default set. A decision was made for default to not compile -- with-mysql so that the user could supply the correct path to the user installed mysql headers. This is from memory. I also don't know if suse put out a patch via yast to take care of this. I know this was discussed earlier on the list, but I don't recall any resolution. -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. RANKIN * BERTIN, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 (936) 715-9333 (936) 715-9339 fax www.rankin-bertin.com -- ----- Original Message ----- From: "Greg Engel" To: "David Rankin" ; "yoo hoo" Cc: "Suse Linux" Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2004 10:06 AM Subject: Re: [SLE] SuSE 9.1 Feedback - php and mysql those directive

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I just installed 9.1 and the php in apache2 has mysql support just fine. Are you talking about php from the command line and why would that be different that php in apache?

Greg Engel

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On Fri, 2004-05-14 at 12:07, Stewart Taylor wrote:

On Tuesday 04 May 2004 11:58, Andrei Verovski (aka MacGuru) L1 wrote:

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Hi,

Anyone have received and installed SuSE 9.1?

Any feedback is greatly appreciated.

Andrei

See my post 9.1 trashed my HD. Once I got it installed it is just so much better than 8.0 in every respect I've looked at so far. On my AMD Athlon XP 2000 + it seems much faster and things seem much slicker and well polished.

Stewart

Had to delete my partition table too on one drive, including the label. Been fine ever since, maybe parted needs a really clean drive to function properly? Only other upset so far was CUPS, if it goes off-line and you need to restart your printer it seems to be too user unfriendly atm, although the current setup is probably goo for networked PC's... Matt

Hi On Saturday 15 May 2004 02:40, Thom Nuzum wrote:

Hard disk geometry of 16 heads seems like it may be a major problem with the 2.6 kernel. Bad for dual booters.

I wouldn't put it that way. We do have several reports from customers who can't boot into WinXP anymore after installing 9.1. And so far all of these cases have one thing in common: the hard disk geometry is reported to be one with 16 heads. It's also true that this appears to be specific to using a 2.6 kernel. But other than that we don't know (yet). I don't think, however, that it can be deduced from this that in general hard disk geometry of 16 heads together with kernel 2.6 are a general probelm (for fual booting into WinXP at least). Anyway: for those that recognise this problem: the only "cure" that we have found so far is to change the BIOS setting to access the hard disk in LBA mode explicitly (rather then "auto" or similar). Unfortunately not all BIOS versions do offer such an option. Obviously we will document the solution as soon as we have one (in the support data base). If anyone can contribute to a solution on this topic, please e-mail me directly. It's hard for us to tacle this problem because we haven't got a machine where we could reproduce this. Greetings from Bremen hartmut