Hello - I am fairly new to Linux. I have a a Compac Presario laptop 1.5G AMD Turion64, 1.2G ram, ATI radeon xpress 200m. I originally tried to install 11.2 w/gnome but could not get a screen. I erased the partition and installed 11.1 kde. That seemed to work ok so I upgraded to 11.2. Now the keyboard doesn’t work with the gui, although it works in grub. I have tried >sax2 -r< and >sax2 -r -m 0=vesa< in run level 3 but each of those killed both the keyboard and the mouse so I had to shut it down using the power switch. Should I go back to 11.1 and if so, how should I do that? Thanks - d
Xorg versions in openSUSE 11.1 and 11.2 use indeed a different driver for keyboard and mouse… although that shouldn’t bother that much.
Installing 11.1 in order to install 11.2 is generally not a good idea. You should rather find out why 11.2 didn’t install: more likely because of your ATI radeon graphic card.
Browse the forum for ATI installation’s problems and possible solutions.