Re: [tlug] SuSE 9.1 - 9.3 Upgrade Saga

[Mark Sargent <powderkeg@example.com>]

Lyle (Hiroshi) Saxon wrote:

> Some observations in case it might be of interest to someone, *&* one 
> request for help (at the bottom).
>
>
> Background on the machine I'm referring to:
>
> First install on squeaky-new hard drive - SuSE 9.0.
> Upgraded to 9.1.
> HDD moved to new hardware.
> Upgrade to 9.3.
>
>
> Comments on changes after upgrading to 9.3:
>
> Fixed:
>
>     DVD playback & recording - I used to have a problem with DVD's - 
> I'd put them into the machine and it would run wild, opening one 
> window after another, prompting frantic Alt+F4 pushing.  Also, the 
> disk was sometimes difficult to get out of the machine - the disk 
> drawer would come out and immediately be sucked back in, so you had a 
> half-second to grab the disk when at full extension.  The result was I 
> couldn't use DVD disks at all - not for reading, not for recording.  
> Strangely, I was able to make one DVD disk before the system went wacky.
>     Now, I can access and record DVD disks with no problem, other than 
> the initial access problem I had - now solved, except for the strange 
> message I'm getting in German that forces me to choose one of two 
> incomprehensible... settings?
>
>     Japanese input.  I was never able to input Japanese characters 
> with the machine, now that's no problem, other than that the default 
> character code only produces gibberish, so each time I write Japanese 
> for the first time after a reboot, I have to select a different input 
> method.  Just the first time though, so it's not a big time burner.
>
> Problems:
>
>     Sporadic dead mouse on boot-up.  This is fixed by either bypassing 
> the KVM switch and plugging a USB mouse directly into the computer, or 
> doing a reboot.  Extremely irritating, but not too big of an issue as 
> more often than not (recently), the mouse is there upon boot-up and I 
> don't have to reboot the machine - although I had to this morning....

does this happen on other machines with the same KVM.? Could it just be 
a faulty KVM..?

>
>     The floppy isn't accessible via My Computer unless I start a new 
> session as root, and then, after accessing it as root, it is also 
> accessible via user.  Actually, now that I realize I can always access 
> it via Konqueror, it doesn't really matter.  I've just abandoned My 
> Computer as a way of accessing it.
>
>     Loss of the keyboard while in Mozilla.  This is perplexing and 
> very (very-very-very) irritating!  I've begun to realize that it seems 
> to be happening when I try to save a message via Ctrl+S, so I'm 
> drifting over to the slower drop-down menu to save messages, but I 
> don't like this method - it's much slower than Ctrl+S.  This 
> particular problem is the one thing I would really like to get sorted 
> out, so if anyone has any info or tips, please... (please-please) send 
> them.

what version of Mozilla are you running.? Have you tried just upgrading 
Mozilla to see what results it produces.?

>
>
> Other than that, it's working well.  The above issues do scare me 
> enough though, that I'm afraid to upgrade the wife's computer - "If it 
> isn't broken, don't fix it" is ringing in my ears....

more so if it's the wife's computer...unless of course the wife is VERY 
forgiving...

>
> Lyle
>
>
hope you get it all resolved soon, Lyle..cheers.

Mark Sargent.