I have had no problems with SUSE 9 and i havent done the updates. Maybe it has something to do with the vid card he is using.
On Tuesday 21 October 2003 11:36, James Hatridge wrote:
Hi all...
In the meantime I put 9.0 on one of my machines, which was a bit
A buddy sent me this: painful since there is a severe X-server bug which makes the machine crash the moment after you log into a KDE session (the patch is already available of course via YOU).
Are any of you guys having this problem? If so, what did you do about it? Also if using YOU is the only way of fixing it, how does someone off line take care of it?
No problems here with a very nice 9.0 install, easier and smoother than ever before. Mind you, i did download the available patches during installation, and there is an Xserver patch available, so perhaps he does need it if he didn't / couldn't update at install time.
The ones that look up his street are located at $YOURFAVOURITEMIRROR/pub/suse/ i386/update/9.0/rpm/i586/
XFree86-server-4.3.0.1-29.i586.patch.rpm XFree86-4.3.0.1-29.i586.patch.rpm xf86tools-0.1-751.i586.patch.rpm
and they should be installable with rpm -Fvh as root. HTH Fergus
TIA
JIM
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