Why SuSE 9.0 vs. 9.1?

[Bill Campbell]

On Fri, Jul 30, 2004, Fairlight wrote:
>Simon--er, no...it was Bill Campbell--said:
>> 
>> One problem I've had with the fully updated SuSE 9.1 Professional
>> desktop system here is that perl::Tk X-clients on other systems
>> fail to display on the SuSE 9.1 X server, failing with:
>
>Ouch!  Oh, that's nasty.  If I thought it was actually pTk's fault, I might
>post it to the pTk group but it sounds like a specific X11 bug.

The same perl::Tk scripts work OK running on the 9.1 system, and have been
running for years on other systems here including a variety of Linux
distributions, FreeBSD, and SCO OpenServer.

Other X clients display properly on the SuSE 9.1 systems (e.g.  xeyes, the
NeXS spread sheet, etc.).

Given that somebody else mentioned downgrading XFree86 on their system, I
would suspect that it is an X11 problem.  It's also possible that it's
related to the nVidea drivers as there have been known problems where
people have attempted to run nVidea's own drivers on the SuSE 9.1 with the
2.6 kernels.  I'm running the vanilla SuSE drivers on this box, not the
ones downloaded from nVidea.

Bill
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