OK, this is my last thread for some time to come, and i would like to sort out one last problem.
OpenSUSE tends to freeze for me, so i can’t click on anything other than the computer/start menu in the bottom left corner. I move the mouse normally around the desktopm but it doesn’t work for anything. I can’t cancel tabs in my browser, sometimes i can exit the browser/explorer/any other app., sometimes i can’t, but it happened three times to me only today.
I didn’t find any solutions using google. Please help
Thank you, and i promise i won’t be a pest any more
OK, this is my last thread for some time to come, and i would like to sort out one last problem.
OpenSUSE tends to freeze for me, so i can’t click on anything other than the computer/start menu in the bottom left corner. I move the mouse normally around the desktopm but it doesn’t work for anything. I can’t cancel tabs in my browser, sometimes i can exit the browser/explorer/any other app., sometimes i can’t, but it happened three times to me only today.
I didn’t find any solutions using google. Please help
Thank you, and i promise i won’t be a pest any more
We are here to help and asking for help does not make you a pest and there is no limit to how much help you request. We do ask that you following the forum rules, but that is it.
You MUST tell us more about your computer hardware and software. Most issues are specific hardware/software combinations we can not guess from your message in this thread. Please tell us:
PC Model & Brand
Video System Brand & Model (GPU Chipset)
OpenSUSE Version, 64 or 32 bit
Desktop Used and Version (KDE or GNOME or what?)
Anything else that might help duplicate the problem
You can find a lot of this when you open up the “My Computer” icon on the desktop of your choice.
I own Fujitsu Esprimo Mobile V6535, processor - Pentium T4300 2,1 GHz, 4GB of ram - DDR2 800, hard drive 500 GB 5.400 rpm SATA, and for my graphics card it says Mobile intel GMA 4500M. - For this information i had to check the receipt of the computer :shame:
I use OpenSUSE 11.4, 64-bit version, Gnome desktop.
I hope it clears anything more
Thank you, really, you guys are great help, i can’t tell you how helpful it is for a computer analphabet like me to be in a community like this. Linux is da bomb!!!
I own Fujitsu Esprimo Mobile V6535, processor - Pentium T4300 2,1 GHz, 4GB of ram - DDR2 800, hard drive 500 GB 5.400 rpm SATA, and for my graphics card it says Mobile intel GMA 4500M. - For this information i had to check the receipt of the computer :shame:
I use OpenSUSE 11.4, 64-bit version, Gnome desktop.
I hope it clears anything more
Thank you, really, you guys are great help, i can’t tell you how helpful it is for a computer analphabet like me to be in a community like this. Linux is da bomb!!!
So, to determine if this is related to video, I would ask that you restart the PC and in the Grub Operating System Selector displaying the menu.lst file, enter the kernel load option nomodeset on the default openSUSE load and then press the enter key. This turns off Kernel Mode Setting, thus switching the kernel video driver being used for Intel video. This same command exists in the Failsafe entry, with lots of other stuff we do not want to use unless we have to, but is an example of this kernel option being used. The /boot/grub/menu.lst file can be edited as a root user and then add this command in if it helped in any way. Try using the nomodeset command manually and then comment on what it does, if anything.
Let me be more specific. The cursor moves around the screen, but i can only click a limited amount of things. For example - i have 10 bookmarks in my bookmarks bar in chromium, and i can only click the last 3 for instance, or i can start the turn off menu via mouse clicking, but than have to use the cursor keys to select the turn off button. So, the problem is it freezes so i can’t click on most of the things on my desktop. This problem occurs maybe once a day, and seems to stop bothering me after reboot.
Help?
and to the poster above me - i’m not using dual boot, and the only manual i found which shows me how to do what you asked me to do is via grub in dual boot. I’m running only Opensuse 11.4 Gnome.
On 08/31/2011 07:46 PM, ayk87 wrote:
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> So, it happened again.
yep, i’m seeing it also…when i first booted this morning i could move
the mouse, but not click on anything…and, i couldn’t get the self
hiding panels to pop out either…i used Ctrl+Alt+F2 to open a
console and opened top to see if something stange was going on…and, it
wasn’t…then when i switched back to KDE i could right click the
desktop but the panel still wouldn’t come out, so i logged out…i
logged right back in, and it was gone now over 12 hours without a repeat
of that or any other problem…
something fishy is going on!
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