[ale] Upgrade hell

[Dow Hurst]

Cor,
Is this a Sony Viao?  If so, what is the video chipset in the laptop?  
You may have a problem related to that chipset.  I had a Dell Latitude 
that ran fine under SuSE 7.1 but has all kinds of low level problems 
under 9.1.  I think a bug was introduced and never fixed for the 
Neomagic chipsets.  I had the Neomagic256ZX in the Latitude.
Dow


Cor van Dijk wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> For years I had RH 6.2 running on my Sony laptop without any problem.
> To get usb support I tried to switch to RH Enterprise 3.3  (which is 
> running fine
> on a regular PC.) Halfway through the setup process I am told that  
> the machine
> - that is the laptop - is not supported.
>
> Then I tried to upgrade using  RH 7.2, which has been running for 
> years on a regular
> PC without ever any problem. That upgrade  worked. However, every now 
> and then
> I get a hang when in an X screen; it does not do that in a startup 
> console.
>
> I then tried a complete reinstall of RH 7.2, reformatting all 
> partitions and checking for bad blocks, but with the same result: hangs!
> I ran a memtest for several hours: zero errors. No interrupt conflicts 
> that I can see.
>
> It appears that there is a bug in the X-machinery or maybe in the 
> Gnome stuff.
> Anybody seen this? Any fix?
>
> Any help is appreciated, Cor van Dijk.
>
>
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