[ale] Slackware 10.2 Makes me cry

[H. A. Story]

I switched from RedHat to Slack cause I want to learn more under the 
hood stuff.  Personally,  I should build another machine to do test on 
before this one.  The last upgrade I did, I didn't like.  What a vendor 
complies for you in the package programs "Apache" may not be what you 
want.  I can still say if I had done this on a M$ machine I would have 
had to format and reinstall and loose everything.  At least, this may I 
had it all backed up and could search the tar file for the configs and 
home dirs.   And I was smart enough to put root, home, and usr local on 
different mounts.



Bob Toxen wrote:

>I've not had such problems on SW10.2 or 10.1 or 10.0 or 9 or 8 ...
>
>Bob
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>On Sun, Feb 05, 2006 at 11:21:58AM -0500, H. A. Story wrote:
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>>Well,  I finally got my system back online.  Found out somethings. 
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>>make mrproper deletes a lot of stuff.
>>upgradepkg on glib*.tgz is  DANGEROUS!!!!!  It kill ls and everything.
>>
>>Doing the upgrade from disk 1.  If you do the quick format files are not 
>>removed.  And you end up with a nice mix.
>>
>>Kernel compiling will put you to sleep.
>>
>>A full system backup to a tar or gz file may not help you.  I had run a 
>>backup before hand. I couldn't gunzip the file and it was too large 
>>after booting from the distro CD.  Seems the distro bare.i doesn't like 
>>+2 Gigs files.
>>
>>When you screw up bad.  Having another image in lilo doesn't help. 
>>
>>My problem now seems to be sound and video.  I can't get ATI Radeon 9200 
>>to work ideally.  No errors during boot.   I can't seem to get the sound 
>>to work.  And I would like to get kernel 2.6.## loaded and working.
>>
>>Anyone else had problems like this?  I could take the easy way out and 
>>changed distro, but don't think that would be fun either.
>>Any suggestions on sound?  Notice 2 sound cards. When adding Ensoniq 
>>137? the kernel doesn't compile.
>>
>>Output of lspci00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8377 
>>[KT400/KT600 AGP] Host Bridge (rev 80)
>>00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 PCI Bridge
>>00:0d.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq 5880 AudioPCI (rev 04)
>>00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 
>>Controller (rev 80)
>>00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 
>>Controller (rev 80)
>>00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 
>>Controller (rev 80)
>>00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 82)
>>00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8235 ISA Bridge
>>00:11.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. 
>>VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
>>00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. 
>>VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50)
>>00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II] 
>>(rev 74)
>>00:13.0 SCSI storage controller: Adaptec AHA-2940U/UW/D / AIC-7881U (rev 01)
>>01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV280 [Radeon 
>>9200 SE] (rev 01)
>>
>>Adrin
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