I decided to upgrade 5.3 rather than scratch it and install 6.0 fresh. Time will tell if I have to do the latter. Seems I've encountered some of the usual problems: 1) during bootup the insmod line can't find "char-major-4" 2) KDE "wrong character set message" 3) pppd stopped working. The 4774 --> 4776 change in /etc/permissions didn't prevent YaST from changing the permissions of pppd. I changed them back with a+sx, but the pppd always died just as it tried to connect to the ISP. Turns out that the /etc/ppp/options file had a bunch of stuff in it, so I removed everthing but "#lock" and I can connect again. 4) Do a "su" from my user login and the root prompt character remains as ">", but when I log into root the prompt is "#" 5) Netscape died, so I installed the Netscape (4.5) from the 6.0 disks. Some say it's buggy. 6) Somehow the ApplixDemo overwrote my commercial copy. I think it happened when some dependencies were selected automatically. Will have to reinstall it. 7) My OSS sound program only partly works: the synthesizer won't play wav files, but my CD Player still sounds great. OSS now detects more than one PCI card (I have an PCI NCR53c810 scsi card which soundconf also detects. It recommends "pnp_server=1" in options.cfg, but I already have that line in that file. OSS requires glibc5, which I installed. 8) PostgreSQL stopped working, so I deleted and reinstalled it. 9) WordPerfect8 came through ok, and runs nicely. More later, Jerry - To get out of this list, please send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/ and the archiv at http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html
