Re: moving from 10 to 11, not so nice

houghi <houghi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Claude Hopper wrote:

I'm beginning to wonder what the purpose of the 11.0 release was. KDE4
is not ready, I see no improvement in performance and some new problems
what didn't exist before. I think it was a downgrade. Don't chuck your
10.3 cd's yet.

So run KDE 3.X instead. I see a LOT of improvement.

See it as a valuable lesson: if it ain't broke, don't fix it. If you
have a running system, there is no real reason to go to 11.0

I see no compelling reason to upgrade from 10.3 to 11.0.

I saw lots of reasons to upgrade a system from 10.2. So I did a test
install on of beta2 and found no show stoppers. Didn't bother with
RC1 assuming that there'd only be ironing-out of the rough edges.

General release 11.0 (fresh install) seemed fine until I tried to
use it. Even during installation, the system would wedge at "random
points". After I got an install completed, I worked out that it must
be related to the Nvidia graphics (with the openSUSE drivers).

Shortly after I start using the GUI, the system will wedge almost
completely; though the IP stack is still partially alive as it'll
echo a ping. But the power button won't initiate a shutdown. The
system is stable when I run an ssh session from another computer and
beat the living daylights out of it doing heavy IO and number
crunching.

I've tried the usual irqpoll option that helps to cirumvent some
of the nvidia-chipset interrupt misses on previous *SUSE versions.
Waiting now for newer kernel and NVidia to sort out their drivers.

# lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 IGP2 (rev a2)
00:00.1 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 1 (rev a2)
00:00.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 4 (rev a2)
00:00.3 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 3 (rev a2)
00:00.4 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 2 (rev a2)
00:00.5 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 5 (rev a2)
00:01.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 ISA Bridge (rev a4)
00:01.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation nForce2 SMBus (MCP) (rev a2)
00:02.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 USB Controller (rev a4)
00:02.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 USB Controller (rev a4)
00:02.2 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 USB Controller (rev a4)
00:04.0 Ethernet controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Ethernet Controller (rev a1)
00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 AC97 Audio Controler (MCP) (rev a1)
00:08.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 External PCI Bridge (rev a3)
00:09.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation nForce2 IDE (rev a2)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 AGP (rev a2)
01:06.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV18 [GeForce4 MX - nForce GPU] (rev a3)

Package management is quick on openSUSE 11.0 (so far).
They've obvious stopped doing some things in a stupid way.
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