Opensuse 11.4 crash after install on HP G62

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Last week I tried to upgrade OpenSuse 11.2 to 11.4 as you can read here: Opensuse freezes after update 11.2 -> 11.4
New version didn’t start. So somebody told me to reinstall 11.4 from a scratch. I did it.
After the installation of all packages, these are the messages I remember:

"reloading new kernel … avoid rebooting " (or something like that)
after that a kernel oops appeared on module radeon

“fd conflicting”
…
last sys… loaded radeon firmware
radeon evergreen…

Ok, I rebooted. The normal startup freezed with a black screen.
I rebooted again in failsafe mode, then the install continued (autoconfiguration) and at the end freezed again.
I rebooted again, and the kde desktop started. I thought: ok, now I’ll connect to network and I’ll download latest updates: I started NetworkManager and pc freezed (no mouse no ctrl+alt+del worked at all)

If you want, I can try to boot with a live linux and get the kernel messages (if present) on startup partition (or any other install log or wathever).

I hate this laptop and its f*ed idiot double video card system (intel+radeon). I know that some other laptop use the same idiot system but, from their bios you can disable autoswitch and keep only one videocard enabled.
Hp G62 have the worst and poorest bios setup I’ve never seen in my life (you can only change boot device priority NOTHING ELSE). I upgraded to the latest available Bios, nothing changed.

Please give me some suggestion, my temptation is to go where I bought this laptop and launch it through the shop window on the head of salesman :mad::mad::mad::mad:

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Don’t know if this might help
Switchable graphics - how do I disable one of the video drivers? - Page 3

Sounds like a nightmare

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Thanks, I’ll take a try!!

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I would first check whether there is a BIOS update available from hp.com.
Second try a newer kernel. The latest stable is 3.0.4 from:
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Kernel:/stable/standard/
This has worked reasonably for my Intel+Radeon Acer laptop.

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Hybrid graphics can be annoying to configure, and are still not fully GNU/Linux compatible (in comparison to MS-Windows functionality of same hardware), and unfortunately no one has yet to write a comprehensive guide for openSUSE as to how one can deal with such hardware. I don’t have such hardware so I can not experiment/learn with real hardware. Perhaps if anyone does get this to work,they can write such a guide.

I have read of user’s with Intel/Radeon hybrid devices disabling the Radeon part (and configuring only the Intel) with the boot code:


radeon.modeset=0

There is a piece of software called vgaswitcheroo which has made it in the kernel (I believe) that is purported to help a bit with hybrid graphics. There is also an application under development called Bumblebee where that has been packaged for openSUSE by user’s in the build service. Bumblebee is planned to provide Optimus support for GNU/Linux, with real offloading, and not switchable graphics. It purports to work on Optimus Laptops without a graphical multiplexer.