I was delighted to be able to upgrade my 11.0 to 11.1, by using “zypper dup”, along with 11.1 installation DVD,
however now, after some weeks of testing I would like to revert to 11.0 due to:
Lack of control by audio soft-key on my HP Pavillion DV6230BR (on/off and volume) when using Gnome or KDE4.1; strange is that KDE3.5 is working
Stop of parprouted operation along with my VirtualBox machines
In general more complaints than improvements (for me of course!).
So my question is: may I use the same “zypper dup” procedure by installing the old 11.0 DVD to revert to previous openSUSE version?
On Mon, 2009-04-20 at 21:26 +0000, amdturion wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was delighted to be able to upgrade my 11.0 to 11.1, by using “zypper
> dup”, along with 11.1 installation DVD,
> however now, after some weeks of testing I would like to revert to 11.0
> due to:
>
>
>
> - Lack of control by audio soft-key on my HP Pavillion DV6230BR
> (on/off and volume) when using Gnome or KDE4.1; strange is that KDE3.5
> is working
> - Stop of parprouted operation along with my VirtualBox machines
>
> In general more complaints than improvements (for me of course!).
>
> So my question is: may I use the same “zypper dup” procedure by
> installing the old 11.0 DVD to revert to previous openSUSE version?
>
>
It is NOT possible. Backup the data you want to keep and
reinstall using 11.0 media (or however you have that setup).
Doing an upgrade like that usually causes more problems than a clean install. You might want to try a clean install of 11.1 and see if that clears up the problems you’re having.
Also, upgrading to KDE 4.2 is usually a good idea.
Thanks both of you (pilotgi, cjcox) for the answers.
And what’s about installing on 11.1 (as second boot option for grub) the older 11.0 kernels (default and source) in order to verify if the lacking functionalities depend on this?
On Wed, 2009-04-22 at 20:26 +0000, amdturion wrote:
> Thanks both of you (pilotgi, cjcox) for the answers.
>
> And what’s about installing on 11.1 (as second boot option for grub)
> the older 11.0 kernels (default and source) in order to verify if the
> lacking functionalities depend on this?
You can certainly multi-boot… last one out (installed) usually
controls the boot loader (just fyi).
IMHO, you should go 11.1 with KDE 3.5 (yes, it’s still there and
installable) and we can fix up the issues you’re having (fairly
confident).
TheUnknownCylon:
You can assign the sound-control-keyboard-buttons(…) to volume control. I had to do that before they worked for me on my notebook (Dell Latitude).
Go to configure dekstop -> Keyboard & Mouse -> Global Keyboard Shortcuts. Select component KMix.
If you still need to downgrade, good luck.
Thanks for the suggestion, it could be a workaround, however I suppose that KMix is a KDE application and most of time I am using Gnome Desktop.
cjcox:
You can certainly multi-boot… last one out (installed) usually
controls the boot loader (just fyi).
IMHO, you should go 11.1 with KDE 3.5 (yes, it’s still there and
installable) and we can fix up the issues you’re having (fairly
confident).
cjcox, are you a developer? (just my curiosity)…
Well, I know that the improvements on a distribution can pass through some minor issues, as the ones I am encountering, by the way one of the good of linux is its extremely high versatility and freedom of choices; I think I will give a try to re-install the old kernels on top of this, just to see if something changes, until bugs corrections.
Well today I try this and it was successfullol!
Not necessary to choice specific components, just AUDIO and select the first 4 shortcuts under Gnome Control Center > Personal > Keyboard Shortcuts; here the image I saved: