Why SuSE 9.0 vs. 9.1?

[Fairlight]

With neither thought nor caution, Bill Campbell blurted:
> 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.

Did you mean 9.0 there?  I assume so, but you know what they say...

Yeah, sounds like an internal X11 glitch.  Just "one of those things" that
makes one wait half a year for a dist to get the kinks out.

Yet another reason I have to laugh at the folly of someone running Fedora
Core 2 in a production environment.  I mean, it was finalised 5/18/04,
according to their own site.  That's what, a whole 2.5 months old?  Anyone
doing that deserves whatever happens.

> 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.

If you're running stock SVGA XFree86, with no nVidia, would it be due to a
-lack- of drivers for it?  You're saying pTk programs fail on your system,
but you're not using the custom drivers.  Are they that non-standard?  :)
Actually, is that how it works?  Not having an nVidia anything, I'm just
hazarding a guess that it's similar to XFree86-s3 and the like, where they
have a separate core for the chipset.  Or is it implemented differently?

Hmmmm.  I wonder if it's -just- pTk or if it's Tk as well that's affected.
They're separate creatures, despite the intermingled lineage.  I thought
there was a Tk test program but it's been five years or more since I tried
it, so I can't remember what it's called. 

mark->
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