Came in to work today and noticed a few patches were available for 11.4, so I clicked on Apply and went to get a cup of tea (big mistake).
After returning I was greeted with “please reboot system to run new kernel” 2.6.37.6-0.9. I rebooted and bye-bye graphics. I do get a graphic screen booting Failsafe. Tried to build NVIDA driver into new kernel but it did not work. I’ve successfully done that plenty of times in the past both from the console and the “easy way” but not today for some reason.
My fault for not paying attention to what was getting patched as I routinely do this everyday w/o problems, except for today.
I don’t have time to fix whatever happened today, so I thought I’d simply go back to the previous kernel. So my question: how does one do that?
Many thanks. The “Just do what you need here” worked fine.
On 2011-11-08 17:36, gudewdl wrote:
> I don’t have time to fix whatever happened today, so I thought I’d
> simply go back to the previous kernel. So my question: how does one do
> that?
For the next time, edit /etc/zypp/zypp.conf and allow multiversion.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)
The new kernel has also caused problems for my Shuttle XPC w/ Intel graphics.
I have followed the above (which was helpful) and reverted to the previous kernel (2.6.37.6-0.7-desktop) but my X is still screwed up.
I have to put in nomodeset to get any graphics, but now comes up in 1280 x 1024 which is a real headache on this monitor. There are no other resolution options in “Size and Orientation – System Settings”. Normally this system would be in 1550x1280 I think it was.
So either I have to downgrade something else related to X or maybe upgrade to 12.1 RC2.
The only thing I am concerned about is that I read some time ago about a problem with Intel graphics in 12.1, but haven’t again located that reference or know if the Intel support has been fixed in RC2. Maybe the Intel bug is what I am experiencing right now?
Any ideas? I don’t have any objection to upgrading to 12.1 if that will fix the graphics. Can anyone point me to instructions for the upgrade (as long as the Intel bug is thought to be fixed)? Thanks
I know that zypper dup would initiate the upgrade but not sure where/how to get the repositories.
On 2011-11-10 02:16, stevektm125 wrote:
> So either I have to downgrade something else related to X or maybe
> upgrade to 12.1 RC2.
The file /var/log/zypp/historylist the last things installed by date. You
can see what was installed and reverse possible culprits.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)
OK, here’s what I did to get video working properly on the newest 11.4 kernel (2.6.37.6-0.9-desktop).
Went into /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-device.conf and changed driver to “intellegacy” and removed the comment.
Now, with nomodeset on the boot I’m getting proper resolution of 1680x1024 and correct refresh rate and my headache went away.
Although my integrated video chipset is the Intel 4500, a similar fix should work for other chip families if you’re not getting the correct video driver loaded with the new kernel.
Thanks to SuSE 12.1 for the tip to do this.
I think they were having a similar problem with the early 12.1 betas but the 12.1 RC2 Live CD does boot properly with the correct driver so I guess the problem is fixed there.
Carlos, thanks for the tip on the zypper history file, I had wondered where that was. However, I couldn’t see anything in it obviously creating the problem so went with the above fix.