On Sun, 2005-10-16 at 12:23 -0700, Syv Ritch wrote: > Hi, > > I have been using Centos since 3.0. I have been upgrading > regularly without any major problem. > > 4.1 to 4.2 has been a total disaster. > > I ran yum update, it went through and a couple of hours later I > rebooted and X froze with the screen just being just fuzz > [regular rectangles, orange, green...] and the keyboard froze. > Could not do a alt-ctrl-backspace, nor a Alt-F1-6 nor Alt-Ctrl-Del. > > I have a ATI9200 with a Samsung 710N [It only works at 1240x1024 > @ 60Hz, it will not work at any other frequency] > > This is the same hardware as I was running with 4.1. > > I had to reinstall 4.1, now I cannot run yum update to get the > security updates, it tries to upgrade to 4.2. > > 1. Is there a way to just get the updates for 4.1 and not 4.2 > 2. Any suggestion on what went wrong with X. It's not just the > frequency display because the keyboard also froze. > > Thanks The first thing that came to my mind that there was something not nice between 3.0 and 4.X but reading on you are already running 4.1 as I. I confess that I was kinda in the dark...about 10 days ago I unsubscribed to this list and then yest. morn. I started to upgrade and knew something big was going on but didn't really know til I read on the Centos' site. I am sorry to hear of the problems and I guess I consider myself lucky. Using yum update I updated all 3 of my machines w/no problems other than a hell of a lot of time to do it and lots of restarting the update process. All 3 of my machines are stictly generic...most people would probably call them junk and they probably right but I must say I have had no problems upgrading. thx John Rose