Re: [SLUG] SuSE 10.1 Split personality...

From: Chuck Hast (wchast@gmail.com)
Date: Thu Aug 17 2006 - 19:40:43 EDT


On 8/17/06, Joe Brandt <vzd1s11k@verizon.net> wrote:
> On Wednesday 16 August 2006 11:38 pm, Chuck Hast wrote:
> > Well, I still have not been able to come up with a good fix for the
> > automount of the CF cards and other removable storage devices (CD and DVD's
> > excep- ted), and I have also found that I no longer have audio, all on my
> > laptop.
> >
> > Interesting thing is that the desktop machine I upgraded works great, yes
> > the update part and YaST are as many people seem to point out, 'ssllooww'
> > but beyond that the desktop works just fine, CF disk, SD cards, and other
> > USB storage automounts just fine, audio works just fine. What is even more
> > inter- esting is that during the upgrade process, the machine lost power, I
> > thought it was really going to be a mess (it was during that part where
> > they indicate you should not stop the process) indeed it worked quite well,
> > picked up where the power loss had left it, and finished the job, it even
> > handled the ndiswrapper
> > thing nicely, I can see environmental data that was not being passed from
> > the wifi card to the tools due to ndiswrapper, now it works real nice.
> >
> > So should I continue to battle with the laptop, or should I back my data up
> > again and wipe it and try a new 10.1 install or should I back off to 10.0
> > which really worked real well on the laptop with a minimum of issues. If I
> > can get 10.1 running there are some nice things that it has that I do not
> > see on 10.0.
> >
> > In general given the response of two different machines I am really sort
> > of let down after doing installs using 10.0 not only in my home but at my
> > work place and at friends homes. I am not sure after these problems that
> > I would recommend 10.1, I sure hope that they clear these issues up prior
> > to 10.2.
>
> I opted to go back to 10.0 on my laptop. Was going to purchase a boxed Suse
> version. Now I am not so sure. May try SLED 10.0. But then again "If it
> ain't fixed, break it" or was that the other way around??

Joe, what is even more frustrating is the fact that it installed on a old HP
desktop that was sort of picky on the 10.0 install, but it was easy to fix the
problems. The update to 10.1 was so clean that I figured if it was that good
on the old machine it surely should have gone very well on the IBM, partic-
ularly since the original install of 10.0 went so well on the ibm.

-- 
Chuck Hast  -- KP4DJT --
To paraphrase my flight instructor;
"the only dumb question is the one you DID NOT ask resulting in my going
out and having to identify your bits and pieces in the midst of torn
and twisted metal."
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