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Subject:    [suse-amd64] My SuSE Professional 9.1 AMD64 experience so far
From:       "Paul C. Leopardi" <leopardi () bigpond ! net ! au>
Date:       2004-05-31 14:33:29
Message-ID: 200406010033.29814.leopardi () bigpond ! net ! au
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Hi all,
As promised, here is a summary of my experience so far with SuSE Professional 
9.1 AMD64.
Best regards

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Installation.

1. Default installation died with a segfault after installing software for 
about 20 minutes. 
Tried again with "apm=off acpi=off" and installation then succeeded through to 
initial boot. 
Used "apm=off acpi=off" on initial boot. 
Connection to YOU succeeded. 
During remainder of installation the system abruptly rebooted. 
Starting YaST after reboot caused another abrupt reboot.
Rebooted using "noapic agp=off acpi=off apm=off".
Ran YaST in Curses mode, and selected YOU.
Updated software and updated the kernel to latest 2.6.4.
[Stability problems have so far disappeared with 2.6.5 kernel.
No longer need "noapic agp=off acpi=off apm=off".]

2. Display blinking and shuddering in framebuffer mode during bootup.
[This seems to have stopped after I updated the kernel to 2.6.5.]

3. Installing TrueType fonts apparently hangs.
[Fixed by editing fetchmsttfonts to prepend Japanese keihanna mirror to list 
of mirrors.]
>diff -ub /var/lib/YaST2/you/scripts/fetchmsttfonts /root/bin/fetchmsttfonts
--- /var/lib/YaST2/you/scripts/fetchmsttfonts   2004-05-29 12:22:17.000000000 
+1000
+++ /root/bin/fetchmsttfonts    2004-05-29 12:32:37.000000000 +1000
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@
 pushd $tmpdir &> /dev/null

 for font in $FONTS; do
- for i in aleron belnet csnet easynews flow heanet switch twtelecom umn unc; 
do
+ for i in keihanna aleron belnet csnet easynews flow heanet switch twtelecom 
umn unc; do
   archive=http://$i.$font
   file=`echo $archive|awk -F "/" '{print $NF}'`
   rm -f $file

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Update to KDE 3.2.2 to match my previous SuSE 9.0 setup.

Update to KDE 3.2.2 succeeded except for kdevelop3.0.3-7 which depends on 
libdb-4.1, which can't be found.
[Fix may have to wait for FTP version of SuSE 9.1]

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Restoring my home directory.

This initially failed.
I have /home on a separate partition.
Before installing SuSE 9.1, I renamed /home to /homer (just in case).
During installation I used a different partition for /.
After installation I updated fstab to mount /homer and check,
then renamed /homer to /home in fstab and remounted.
This had all worked when I reinstalled SuSE 9.0, but failed for SuSE 9.1.
Why?
SuSE 9.1 has renumbered the users. My userid had been numbered 500 under SuSE 
9.0 but SuSE 9.1 used 1000. 
Consequently, when I switch back to the old /home partition it did not work, 
because it did not recognize user 500 as me.
I tried fixing this by changing the number of my userid to 500.
This almost worked, but my previous logins had left files and directories 
owned by user 1000 in various places, especially in /tmp.
I had to delete these before kdm and KDE would work correctly.
Now KDE 3.2.2 works well.

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Fonts.

Anti-aliasing seems rougher than it was with SuSE 9.0.
This could be because I am not yet running the nVIDIA graphics driver.
Maybe sub-pixel hinting does not work in XFree86 4.3.99?

Testing the segfault problems with GluCat.

GluCat still segfaulted with kernel 2.6.4-54.5.
Updated to KOTD, which is 
>uname -a
Linux linfinit 2.6.5-7.61cvs20040528150002-default #1 Fri May 28 19:04:18 UTC 
2004 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

GluCat has so far not segfaulted with this kernel.

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32-bit software.

Maple will not install. Matlab will not run.
This is a showstopper, but I will try to fix it, if possible, rather than 
revert to SuSE 9.0.

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Other oddities so far.

Sometimes Konqueror response seems sluggish for no apparent reason, eg. CPU 
usage is low.

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Hardware:

AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+, on a Gigabyte GA-K8NNXP 
motherboard, which uses the NVIDIA nForce3 150, plus an MSI FX5700-TD AGP 
graphics card, which uses the NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700.

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