Hi, All
Glad to see that so many people have switched to KDE 3.2, been using the CVS for a while. Just updated both my desktop and laptop to the new KDE 3.2 packages. I tend to like living on the edge I always use the command
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rpm -i *.rpm --nodeps --force
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I have had no problems what so ever running KDE even though I just installed other the top of a new KDE 3.1.4 installation from the SuSE 9.0 disk.
On the kernel 2.6 issue, the one supplied by SuSE did not work at all well for me and I have been trying each new version waiting for a good one. 2.6.3 works very well under SuSE9.0., I did the following
Update mod-utils from the main kernel mirrors check here for the URL
http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/799
make xconfig
make mrproper
make bzImage
make modules
make modules_install
cp /usr/src/linux-2.6.3/System.map /boot/System.map-2.6.3
cp /usr/src/linux-2.6.3/arch/i386/boot /boot/bzImage-2.6.3
mkinitrd -k bzImage-2.6.3 -i initrd.img-2.6.3
Then I updated /boot/grub/menu.lst
Note change /dev/hdx=ide-scsi to ide-cd=/dev/hdx
Hopefully you have a modules.conf file left over from a custom 2.4.2X update if not my advice is delete the modules.conf file SuSE 9 comes with as it will cause major proplems during boot up, and just add the modules you need for most people this will just be sound card module, ethernet modules, and maybe an nvidia module and not much else.
When you have booted into kernel 2.6.3 run depmod -a, depmod,
/sbin/generate-modprobe.conf /etc/modprobe.conf. I hope one of the above will get modules loading since SuSE 9.0 has been having problems with these. If any one knows of a solution that works well please post since I am still not to sure about this.
If you want to use Alsa you will need to make the following changes to /etc/init.d/alsasound These instructions came from a post on
http://kerneltrap.org I will put the link up as soon as I log back into my other linux install to get the link
Replace the function get_drivers with this and replace snd-ens1371 with the driver for your sound card
function get_drivers() {
if [ `uname -r` = "2.6.3" ] ; then
echo "snd-ens1371"
else
/sbin/modprobe -c | \
grep -E "^[[:space:]]*alias[[:space:]]+snd-card-[[:digit:]]" | sort |\
awk '{print $3}'
fi
}
In the same file make sure the following is commeted out
# check ALSA driver version 0.9
# if head -n 1 /proc/asound/version | grep -q '0\.9'; then
:
# else
# echo -n "The running ALSA driver looks obsolete. Stop ALSA now."
# stop
# rc_failed 1
# rc_status -v
# return
# fi
If you get failed to start network cards on boot up make sure that you have got the modules compiled for your network cards and that they are setup in /etc/modules.conf, if you have, and your still getting the same problem then you are not getting module loading correctly. Can't offer a fix except whats above for depmod etc.
Happy computing and welcome to Kernel 2.6.3, its just about ready and very fast!