Hi,
I recently installed a fresh copy of Opensuse 11.0 and it hangs when I start it normally way before it gets to the login part. If I start up using sax or Failsafe it’s ok.
The last printed message is:
"input: SynPS/2 Synaptics Touchpad as /devices/platform/i8042/serio4/input/input2 "
I don’t know what was supposed to come next… is this anywhere in the var/log. I am using a ATI mobile radeon X1600, don’t know if it has something to do with it.
Thanks in advance!
The boot log is /var/log/boot.msg
I doubt it has to do with your ATi video card as this should run without 3D support using the oss drivers as far as I know. What are you running this on? You might search to see if someone else has tried to get it running on the same machine.
Try acpi=off and see if you can progress with the normal bootup using that parameter in grub.
You can just type it into the bootloader after the vga=xx statement if you have one (a space between them however).
Thank you all for the assistance. Thanks Chrysantine it solved my problem, it is working very well now 
. By the way, just for wisdom’s sake, is this an ACPI compatibility issue? Is it a hardware incompability or is it some bug yet to be solved?
Sounds like one - it may be resolved in a future kernel update.
ACPI involves power management; there is an inter-dependency between the hardware, the BIOS, and OS. While an industry-standard that has evolved for 10 yrs, it is controversial due to its being exceedingly complex and not consistently and rigorously implemented in all hardware and BIOS’s. Consesquently, there are occasionally problems which can be very difficult to pinpoint. Hence the acpi-off switch.