Hi! I have two problems… I think they’re related that’s the reason I put them together.
In the first place, it’s that I have never been able to see the splash screen, something that I’d like. I have checked the options on the bootloader and it says “splash=silent” (that’s disabled?). I found it confusing, because the ubuntu kernel boots with “splash” but when I try that option on OpenSuSE 11.2 it doesn’t.
Also when I shut down the laptop the screen goes crazy, only the two top cms shows “something” which are blinking and crazy green and white console words moving from one place to another so fast I can’t even been able to read what it actually says. Either way, the laptop shuts down without any problem (?). I think is the normal shutdown process (without splash) but it’s a bit perturbing.
I’ve had had a couple of kind of “aesthetics” issues, but far from critical. My overall experience with OpenSuSE after 4 or 5 years being “debianized” have been very nice :).
(I still can’t get the swing of rpms, specially with yast and zypper, but I think I still need to change the paradigm).
Maybe try the vesa driver. If that makes the problems go away then we know the intel driver is the problem. Note with the vesa driver you will not have 4d accelerations at all. so desktop effects may not work.
Boot to terminal mode by typing a 3 at the boot screen.
log on as root
type
sax2 -r -m 0=vesa ( that’s a zero=)
then type
reboot
If that does not work erase the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file and reboot. That should take you back to the intel driver