[ILUG] upgrading suse (9.2 -> 9.3)

[Nils Olofsson]

On Tue, 2005-07-12 at 01:13 +0100, Dara Ó Maoilmhichíl wrote:
> this is more a point of info than any request for same.
> 
> recently upgrade a box as above.
> 
> some gripes, xmms didn't work and sound didn't work.
> 
> Firefox was now know to the system so i got rid of the manual install.
> Bad idea. None of the plugins work so i have to redo them. Also,
> firefox has a different (non default theme) that i don't like and
> can't seem to delete the suse and other theme or even select the
> firefox standard theme as the default. But maybe i messed up this
> 
> Horrible.
> 
> So I'm seriously looking at other distros for everything.
> 
> Anyway, To solve the above issues.
> 
> Sound:
> 
> I could change the control centre and/or YAST config to get it to
> restart the sound system and all was ok.
> 
> I got these messages :
> 
> "The number of currently running cards doesn't match the number of
> configured cards in your configuration files.
> Try to restart the sound system ?"
> 
> And on boot :
> 
> "Starting sound driver:intel8x0 FATAL : Error inserting snd_intel8x0 (
> lib dir... ) : Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter. See
> dmesg)"
> 
> Dmesg show it doesn't like the joystick param.
> 
> So I didn't like restarting the sound on every boot i messed around with things.
> 
> I deleted /etc/asound.state and /etc/modprobe.d/sound and then ran
> 'alsaconf store'
> 
> It found two cards for some reason, the intel8x0 and a 'legacy' one. I
> picked the intel and followed through.
> 
> On next boot i had sound.
> 
> Now for xmms/amarok/mp3.
> 
> I still haven't gotten xmms or amarok to play mp3, i may try del and
> re-installing them or some web searched, but i got kaffeine working
> with mp3, mpeg, and wmv even i think (for those annoying peolpe that
> send me such ;) ) and it also plays dvd now though i haven't tried.
> 
> basically, i followed the instructions at the following url :
> 
> http://www.plainfaqs.org/linux/dvdplay/
> 
> 
> hopefully helps somebody else out there.
> 
> d

Must resist the temptation!
nils