On Monday 20 June 2005 10:02, Ernest Byaruhanga wrote: > hi Mark, Hello Ernest.
> > My only problem with SuSE was moving from 9.1 to > > 9.2. The kernel was very very slow, but after > > running YoU, all was well. > > this did not seem to fix mine. Will admit, since Novell took SuSE over, things have been surprising; but overall, still a great OS. > well, SuSE has been cool for me too, just only until > my recent 9.2 to 9.3 upgrade Have you tested with a clean_install, on a test box? > well, the broken things are all fixable, and am doing > it one by one. but i will lis a few for you: > > 1. wifi - the dhcp wouldnt modify the resolv.conf, > neither would i get a default gw. had to manually > modufy the config under /etc/sysconfig/network > 2. The X functionality is still totally broken when i > change hostnames (when swtiching between > dhcp/nonm-dhcp networks). quiock solution to this oif > course was to set dhcp not to modify the hostname :( > 3. I click on a program, say gaim, thundfrbird, > firefox, k3b, etc etc. and it just wont start. well, > mouse hourglass shows busy, but stops after a few > seconds. cure.. manually have to export the X+ > display! 4. a few kernel modules were broken, but .. > well, this is expected (though not desirable) Hmmh, did you have specific customizations you carried over from 9.2? The version of Kaffeine I run isn't the one off the SuSE CD, but after upgrading to 9.2, it was still intact (which I found surprising). I suppose I'd have to do an upgrade so I can compare with you, just so we know it's not specific. Mark. > > huh list is endless Mark!! > > rgds > ernest
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