Re: [tlug] SuSE 9.1 - 9.3 Upgrade Saga

["Lyle (Hiroshi) Saxon" <ronfaxon@example.com>]

Mark Sargent wrote:

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


No - this has only happened with this upgrade install of S9.3.  It's 
never happened with any other machine, and... wait a second!  My junky 
Dell Dimension C's (horrible model made by Acer for Dell only for the 
Japanese market) had a keyboard problem with this same KVM, come to 
think of it!  I moved them to an older two-computer KVM with which I've 
not had any problem.  That said, until this recent problem, I didn't 
have any trouble with the Dell OptiPlex machines I've been using, or 
with the one old Digital.  So... that still leaves the question of why 
this has never happened with the same hardware while it was running SuSE 
9.0 and 9.1!  Hmm......

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


1.7.7.  Is there a newer version?  Hold on, I'll check.....  There is!  
1.7.8!  I'm downloading it now.....

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


Yeah, right!  "What did you do to it?  It was working fine before!  I 
need to use it - fix it!  Hurry!"  Just thinking about it makes me quake 
in my socks, I think I'll leave it alone for now!

Thanks for the tips!

Lyle