On Saturday 18 September 2004 06:03 pm, Gerard ter Beke wrote:

Op zaterdag 18 september 2004 23:55, schreef C. Richard Matson:

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On Saturday 18 September 2004 2:29 pm, Gerard ter Beke wrote:

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Hi,

I'm very new to Linux, so my question might be megastupid.

I installed SuSe 9.1 from a the free DVD from Novell on the following system:

AMD64 3200+ Asus K8V SE Deluxe (i know now, stupid choice) 160GB SATA disk 512 Mb RAM Asus WiFi@Home card (Ralink 2400-2460) Benq DW1600 Philips 170S TFT

Almost everything is OK. On startup there are several VPD errors, but the Ethernet works. What doesn't work is the Wireless card. But that can be fixed by installing the RT2400 driver.

Now my problem. Everything i install is vanished once i restart my computer. Be it Yast updates, drivers, programs. It seems like no change is allowed.

What do you mean by vanished? No icons on desktop, etc. or what?

It's more like the system did a rollback. No changes were made.

Again, what do you mean? If you have updated files to a new build/version when you check the files with YaST2 or by doing in a shell, "rpm -q <filename>", you see the same build/version that you had before doing the updates or the new versions? You are doing the updates how, via YOU, YaST2, shell, all the above? Lee -- --- KMail v1.7 --- SuSE Linux Pro v9.1 --- Registered Linux User #225206 Those Who Dance Are Considered Insane, by Those Who Cannot Hear the Music!

On Sunday 19 September 2004 02:41 pm, Gerard ter Beke wrote: [...]

I am using Yast, Online Update (YOU ?). After a reboot, it still shows me all patches i already installed. I did not ask for all updates to be shown. The system seems to not have updated.

I install the RT2400 driver. After reboot, the driver can not be found.

I change the default keyboard to 'Dutch'. After reboot, the keyboard is English.

It seems like no change is accepted.

Ok, it sounds as if you are leaving YOU set to manual update and not selecting any files to be updated. If you look on the first window of the update utility, you will see toward the bottom, a selection indicating "manual", untick that and let YOU take care of the updates automatically, It does those things quite nicely without much interaction from the user. I think things will update then. Any time after you install a module, you should "depmod -a" to see that it's installed and working. You can also do a manual install of "modprobe <module name>" as well after boot. To reset the keyboard layout, you should be able to do that via YaST2 settings, but probably the best and most permanent procedure would be to use sax2. To effectively use this, you should alt-ctrl-F1 to the terminal, log in as root, run "init 3" to quit the X server, then after, run "sax2" to get to the graphics setup and keyboard setup. Make sure you go thru everything and "test" the setup before quiting sax2. Once back to the prompt, run "init 5" and you are back to KDE. good luck Lee