Re: [SLE] SuSE 9 on Laptop (updating)
From: Thom Nuzum (linux_at_tendata.com)
Date: 03/19/04
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Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 14:38:33 -0800 (PST) To: "Sid Boyce" <sboyce@blueyonder.co.uk>
Great! Thanks a bunch.
> linux@tendata.com wrote:
>
>>Hi Folks,
>>
>>I am back on SuSE again for my laptop Mobile AMD Athlon XP-M, ATI
>> MOBILITY
>>RADEON 4X AGP, 64 MB DDR (shared). (my desktop will remain Slackware).
>>It seems SuSE works best here. Note: Mandrake 10 made my laptop run at
>>some kind of full-throttle: sounded like a steel workers machine
>> (amusing,
>>but dangerous I think).
>>Got acpi after follwing instructions from klaptop and added some
>>monitoring to kernel.
>>
>>
>>
> I believe YaST can do the upgrade, but here, I downloaded KDE-3.2.1 into
> an empty directory, logout from KDE, init 3 in a VT and "rpm -Uvh
> --nodeps --force *.rpm", init 5, it seems rpm now is able to install
> them in the correct order. This worked both on my Athlon XP2200+
> desktop and the 64-bit version on my Acer 1501LCe laptop, Mobility
> Radeon 9600 M10 64MB.
>
>>Question: how can I best update to latest KDE. In slack I have swaret
>> (its
>>very simple).
>>Also would like to get DVD to work. It would not accept the install DVD
>> of
>>Pro 9.
>>
>>Thanks
>>
>>Thom Nuzum
>>in DC
>>
>>
>>
>>
> I had the same problem on my laptop, it was loading the ide-scsi module
> which prevented me from mounting the CD-RW/DVD drive as /media/dvd.
> Remove ide-scsi from /etc/sysconfig/kernel,
> "MODULES_LOADED_ON_BOOT="cdrom ide-cd ide-scsi" line.
> Regards
> Sid.
>
>
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