[KLUG Members] ALSA with 2.4.20-27.9 and unresolved symbols

[Adam Williams]

> > > > I could of course cut over to SuSe, but testing has turned up a couple
> > > > of scarey problems which make me leary of doing that just yet - when I
> > > > need my laptop to work.
> > > Can you be more specific?
> > Lots of X issues. 
> I've converted six Fedora/Redhat boxes to SuSE 9.0, and have only found
> one hard to setup X.  That was my laptop with the nVidia binary driver.
> As I told Brian, I think there is a bug where you have to save twice in
> a row for the save to take.

Ok, the save many-many times trick seems to have fixed this.

> > GNOME won't even run.  
> I run Gnome on 5 out the 6 boxes I converted, and they all run fine
> (after adding the kill/bonobo-slay crap to the logout).
> I see Ximian just released XD2 for SuSE 9.0.  I'm going to try it RSN.

Working now, after a red-carpet update.  Hmmm. I originally installed
the XD2 packages JUST after they announced.  An initial bug perhaps?

> > Online update doesn't work.
> Works great for me (the Yast one).  I use a local mirror since SuSE's
> official site is usually too busy.

Haven't tried this one again yet, since red-carpet now works.

> > Red Carpet channels are empty.
> Don't know about that, I use yast.

Suddenly on Friday afternoon rcd downloaded content into the channels
and I can update.  Works like a champ.  The SuSe channel has
holy-cow-a-lot-of-available-packages.