Maura Edelweiss Monville wrote:
--- Philippe Landau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Maura Edelweiss Monville wrote:
Therefore X was messed up ... how come ? It worked
fine up to the night before. I turned off the
computer
in the end of my working session.
An update could be the culprit.
I noticed that my laptop is being updated pretty
frequently. When I am notified that some new patches
are ready I am at a loss whether to install them or
not.
Maura,
You can generally rely on the online updates not breaking things. I
haven't followed the entire thread, but from the list, it seems that
64bit systems are more prone to an update glitch than the 32bit systems.
I regularly (every few days) make sure I am completely updated with
online update or zypper up and I haven't experienced any serious
problems on my Toshiba laptop. I have had ATI driver problems after
updates, but nothing that prevented me from using the display. The
problem were with disappearing 3D acceleration, ATI driver lockups, etc.
I could always use the display, but compiz, etc. would become unusable.
Generally every week or so I will use software management to "update
all packages if newer version is available." These can be significant
package updates involving 400 - 800 Meg of updates. With the exception
of xorg 7.3, I haven't had any problems with these updates either.
I second the good advise about waiting several days after an update is
released before installing it if it is on a critical computer. You can
always check the list and if there is an update problem, most likely it
will be found within a day.
What graphics card do you have? ATI, nVidia? Also, do you have an
update source for your graphics card added as a repository? These can
be problematic, especially if you have an ATI card.
Good luck
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