I’ve made a clean install from DVD and got the same result as I did by
installing earlier milestones and gradually updating via the repos. Booting
from GRUB just gets me a black screen of death with nothing working and
requiring a hard boot. Guess I’ll wait for M6 for another clean install.
Having said that, I am using M5 at the moment as one of my gradual builds
let me log on after a few abortive attempts. It seems that once it works
once it sort of gets into the habit - it’s just a matter of getting lucky in
the first couple of tries.
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Graham P Davis, Bracknell, Berks., UK. E-mail: newsman not newsboy
“I wear the cheese. It does not wear me.”
I have tried doing a net install reboot gives a borked system
tried the workaround from bug 528397 using chroot no good
tried putting the radeon driver in my xorg.conf file and that gives me a real pretty blue and green stripped screen with a square with smaller stripes that works like a mouse no vt 1-6etc
tried the kde4 live with the same results
I am thinking about doing a minimal install and see what happens
Is there any luck with gnome ?
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> What worked for me was reinstalling and getting the latest build
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It’s been working/not-working for a while. One machine or partition works
but another doesn’t. Sometimes, due to some GRUB issues, there are more than
one entry in the menu. One doesn’t work after several tries, the other does
after a couple and then for ever after. Luck of the draw. With me it’s the
fresh install that doesn’t work but the old one does.
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Graham P Davis, Bracknell, Berks., UK. E-mail: newsman not newsboy
“I wear the cheese. It does not wear me.”
For those folks who, like me, had continual hangs while booting the x86 KDE4 live CD, never getting to a desktop or a console prompt; gathered from various threads at opensuse sites:
at boot time, select “text” via the F3 options (not vesa, or resolution, etc)
when console/terminal prompt comes up, enter “root” (no quote marks, no subsequent password.
at command prompt, type “cd /etc/init.d” (no quote marks)
at next command prompt, “nano earlyxdm” (ditto)
find the “Should-Start” line, and add “haldaemon” at the end of it, behind “firstboot”, leaving a space between the words.
save the file (CTL+O, I believe, and use the same file name, i.e., overwrite)
exit nano (CTL+X, I believe)
back at command prompt, type “insserv” (no quote markes)
lastly, type “startx” (ditto) … and then wait quite a while while the graphical KDE4 desktop loads.
You can use RandR utility (if needed) to change the resolution after desktop is loaded.
You have to do all of the above each time you boot from the M5 live CD, unless they come out with this fixed in M6, or (I suppose), you install to HDD. Or, you are adept at fixing the .ISO image to reflect the change needed above in the “earlyxdm” file.