Today was of course christmas dinner, but over the last few days (yesterday included) I’ve been struggling with an upgrade to SuSE linux 10. I stupidly installed the commercial version, instead of the open one. X doesn’t work correctly (swapping VTs crashed the X server – this is apparently a bug with Xorg when compiled with gcc 4.0.2 [laptop dell inspiron 500m, 855 intel graphics). fixing the missing packages took a while. The only reason I noticed was that xgettext was missing. Turns out that there’s a bunch of packages missing (ncft, gettext-devel). For someone who cares about having a decent ftp client and be able to use xgettext (I mean what the fuck are you people thinking – do you even care about the rest of the world. You pretty much can’t compile a single open source project without xgettext).
Anyway, rant over for the time being, on to the fixes. I made use of a page on the jem report, which got me a convenient set of Yast sources to add the missing packages.
A partial fix for X was to download the fairlite x drivers, the problem is that I lose 3d acceleration. Lose one thing, gain another! Frustrating to say the least.
If it wasn't for carbon-14, I wouldn't date at all