Stability issues in OpenSuse 11.1 64-bit

[Daqar]

How do I access the console if the computer doesn't respond to keyboard input?

Daqar

[baskitcaise]

Daqar adjusted his/her AFDB on Saturday 22 Aug 2009 11:36 to write:

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> How do I access the console if the computer doesn't respond to keyboard
> input?
>
> Daqar
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>

What even if you boot to runlevel 3 with no desktop?


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[oldcpu]

Originally Posted by Daqar

How do I access the console if the computer doesn't respond to keyboard input?

If you have another Linux PC on the LAN, just ssh into your PC.

[Daqar]

Originally Posted by baskitcaise

Daqar adjusted his/her AFDB on Saturday 22 Aug 2009 11:36 to write:

>
> How do I access the console if the computer doesn't respond to keyboard
> input?
>
> Daqar
>
>

What even if you boot to runlevel 3 with no desktop?


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Mark
Caveat emptor
Nullus in verba
Nil illegitimi carborundum

I'm not good enough at Linux to wanna boot without a grafical user interface. I don't know the commands and I'm likely to screw it up.

Daqar

[baskitcaise]

Daqar adjusted his/her AFDB on Sunday 23 Aug 2009 18:46 to write:

> I'm not good enough at Linux to wanna boot without a grafical user
> interface. I don't know the commands and I'm likely to screw it up.

>
Daqar

Trust me if you follow these instructions you will not screw it up, do not
be put off the commandline, and what I am going to show you will do nothing
to the machine that has anything to do with your GUI so you will always be
able to get back to it, as it is your machine is not stable and is not worth
running anyway :-)

I will show you the commands in order and put some comments inside []`s in
fact there should only be about 3 commands from start to finish the rest
will use YaST ( not a pretty version but one you control with just the Tab
key.

If you want to try then here we go from the top:

reboot the machine and when the grub bootscreen comes up and you have the
SuSE selected just type 3 yep just the number 3, you should see it printed
on the kernel parameter line added to the end of anything there, then press
enter, now SuSE will boot up and eventually you will get to a login prompt.

At the prompt type

root

[and then enter your root password, next type]

yast

and a blue version of yast will appear on the screen, you use the Tab button
and cursor keys to move about and Shift+Tab to go backwards, you need to go
to the hardware section and then sound, first off we will just try and
delete the card select the card navigate to the delete and delete it, you
will notice it stays there but is unconfigured, so just configure it again,
do a normal setup but on the "other" button if you press the down cursor you
will see "set as default" select it also under "pulseaudio configuration"
select that and disable it you may have to press the Spacebar to change the
state.

next just ok your way out of yast.

When back at the command prompt type:

init 5

And your GUI should start up, now when you login you might get a load of
messages about your card has changed or do you want to forget about the
previous card, just ok them all then go to "Personal settings" and check
the card in multimedia, see if that helps, if not then you might have to try
un-installing the pulseaudio apps to see if that helps.

But that can be done from the GUI with YaST ( if you want to try that then
just remember do not un-install libpulse0 ) just use the search to find
pulse and delete all others except libpulse0 .

But we will leave that till you have tried the soundcard bit first and hope
that works.

So there ya go, only 3 commands and one of those was the login :-)

If you are still not happy and want more help then just holler but I am not
going to be here for a couple of days starting from tomorrow morning,
however oldcpu is around and he is good with the old sound stuff, he is more
in depth with alsa and the drivers side, I am more a hardware guy but what I
have told you worked for me, and at least if it still does not work you can
get it all back by just reversing the process.

HTH

--
Mark
Caveat emptor
Nullus in verba
Nil illegitimi carborundum

[Daqar]

I finally managed to muster the courage to try out your solution and check it out. I've been listening to a couple of songs now while downloading and installing add-ons to firefox...and guess what! No crash!! It seems to work now. Thanks for the help man.

Sorry it took me so long to reply. But I just started an internship. And most programs I use I have for Windows 7, so I don't boot much in OpenSuse. But that might change since I just found an opensource program relevant to my line of study and I have no clue how to install it in Windows.

Daqar