Installed openSUSE 11.2… and it worked fine for a few days.
The software-update installed 53 updates and now the login hangs after I enter the user name and password unless I boot with “x11failsafe” (all other boot parameters are normal, not failsafe)
Performed format and fresh install, again works fine until i perform a software update, the have the same problem (tried this twice).
I have tried the following suggestion as root:
init 3
sax2 -r -m 0=radeon
init 5
Sax2 recognized my video card and configured it without error but this did not solve the problem.
So… I still can only login with x11failsafe added to the GRUB options.
Thanks for the link… I retried the procedure to have sax2 generate xorg.conf using the correct, radeonhd driver… no change.
A few key points:
Graphics driver (radeonhd) and everything else in 11.2 worked fine before the autoupdate
The system hangs after login. My desktop background is correctly displayed (a custom image). In fact, a bubble even appears indicating a network connection; but there is no task bar or any other icons. The mouse moves, but I cannot get any function through clicking or keystroke.
starting by adding “x11failsafe” fixes this problem, but then the monitor resolution is not optimal.
No… I didn’t even have the xorg.conf file. The 11.2 installer correctly identified the radeon integrated chip and everything fine until the update. On the third clean install, i delayed using the software update for a few days, during which all was fine. As soon as I updated, i had the problem again.
I think that you are getting at the fact that if the kernel was updated that i would need to recompile the custom ATI driver and regenerate xorg.conf with aticonfig… but that was not the problem since i was using the driver installed by the 11.2 installer.
