Booted it up and Selected network | http install.
Selected my “ip address” based on what was offered here: Mirror List.
In my case mirrors.nl.eu.kernel.org and the directory /opensuse/factory/repo/oss.
During the install when it said “Detecting <random hardware>” I hit the ok button for everything, but after the install when I’m presented with the login screen… it’s not responding to anything.
I can not move the cursor with the touchpad or external mouse. I can not type or execute commands with the keyboard (tried both external and the one on the laptop self) either…
(Both external mouse/keyboard are USB, since the laptop has no PS/2)
However when I hit the power button and it starts the shutdown process I can hit escape to see all the information instead of the pretty green screen… so by then the keyboard is working again.
Also booting up in safe mode gives me a working mouse/keyboard… so is there any way to fix the default boot?
From what I understand, you did complete an install = failsafe/safemode is working.
Try booting with “noacpi” or “acpi=off” at the bootsplash
Then try this:
at the bootsplash, type “level 3” which will boot you to the command line in runlevel 3.
login as root
type “yast2”
navigate (maybe with the tab & arrow keys) to hardware & fix the mouse & KB
save out of that
type “reboot”
if that doesn’t fix it, repeat to login as root
type “sax2 -m 0=vesa”, walk through all that config
save
reboot
(later you can install the video card driver)
Although I’ll thank you for going trough the trouble of supplying the extensive help above, it seems I discovered a bug in the installer and wont be needing it.
The bug was caused cause I mounted my windows partition into /home/Pascal/windows and then later on in the install created the user Pascal. This somehow bugs out the installer, which fails to create the user “Pascal”. After having manually created this user I can boot up normally without any problems.