On Sun April 17 2005 2:20 pm, michaelnel@comcast.net wrote:
My 9.2 -> 9.3 upgrade was an unmitigated disaster. Every time I try upgrading SuSE it's a mess. I used to buy the boxed set each time, but it puts me through so much crap that I decided I don't want to continue paying for it. I can get that kind of abuse for free, so last time I waited to upgrade to 9.2 until it was on the ftp sites.
I wanted the box set for the manuals, and to help continue development. so I got the 9.2 Pro version.
So I tried upgrading my MAIN machine from 9.2 (up to date with apt) to 9.3. Disaster.
No X, fetchnvidia.sh fetches a driver that segfaults upon startup.
I installed 9.3 on a freshly formatted slice, on the same drive where I have 9.2 installed. NVidia installed no problem, my Gforce video card works fine, and I managed to turn on 3D acceleration before I finished the install.
No sound, alsa segfaulted
I'll have to check, I don't remember sounds.
No printing, it can't find my usb printer that has worked fine with all previous versions of suse and STILL works perfectly with win xp, but 9.3 simply can't find a printer there.
It found my Epson 880 first try, and I installed my Panasonic KX-P1124 parallel myself.
So, since I have /home on a separate partition, and have backups, I decided to bite the bullet and do a clean install.
good idea:)
I still have the same problems.
What a piece of crap. I'm glad I didn't PAY for this mess. SuSE's been going downhill at a breakneck pace since Novell took over.
the reason I did a fresh install was to avoid crashing my existing setup, which I did, so I can tweak 9.3 till I'm happy, then convert over:) YMMV -- Paul Cartwright Registered Linux user # 367800 X-Request-PGP: http://home.comcast.net/~p.cartwright/wsb/key.asc