[ale] Upgrade hell

[Jerald Sheets]

First thing I'd do is get a modern distro.  RH 7.2 is
4 years old now.  Even RH9 is out of service.  Try
SuSE, Debian, Mandrake, or Fedora...  any one of the
current distros would give you a world of better
results.

--J


--- Cor van Dijk <cor.angela at mindspring.com> wrote:

> Greetings,
> 
> For years I had RH 6.2 running on my Sony laptop
> without any problem.
> To get usb support I tried to switch to RH
> Enterprise 3.3  (which is 
> running fine
> on a regular PC.) Halfway through the setup process
> I am told that  the 
> machine
> - that is the laptop - is not supported.
> 
> Then I tried to upgrade using  RH 7.2, which has
> been running for years 
> on a regular
> PC without ever any problem. That upgrade  worked.
> However, every now 
> and then
> I get a hang when in an X screen; it does not do
> that in a startup console.
> 
> I then tried a complete reinstall of RH 7.2,
> reformatting all partitions 
> and checking for bad blocks, but with the same
> result: hangs!
> I ran a memtest for several hours: zero errors. No
> interrupt conflicts 
> that I can see.
> 
> It appears that there is a bug in the X-machinery or
> maybe in the Gnome 
> stuff.
> Anybody seen this? Any fix?
> 
> Any help is appreciated, Cor van Dijk.
> 
> 
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