On Mon, Apr 17, 2017 at 7:19 PM, Franchisseur Robert
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> upgrading from SL5 to SL6 I have several problems but mainly:
>
> 1) On a Dell Latitude E6500
> 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03)

Laptops are always a bit of an adventure. Is there any particular
reason you're not leapfrogging to SL 7, which is likelier to have
better support for audio chipsets?

> even after
>
> modprobe pcspkr
> alsamixer (unmute beep)
>
> I have no beep sound.
>
> But note that it works on a Dell Vostro 1510
> 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03)
>
> and it also works on a Dell precision 390
> 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 01)
>
> 2) I also had to change my xmodmap and my xset but there is something
> which seems to reset them after some time of inactivity.
>
> 3) icewm takes more than 60 % CPU while it was ~ 0 under SL5 !

As much as it makes me wince, can you test it on Gnome or KDE? Or if
you're feeling a bit retro, you're welcome to try my "vtwm" building
tools at https://github.com/nkadel/vtwm-5.5.x-srpm . I've found vtwm
to be *amazingly* stable and robust.