I have downloaded openSUSE-12.3-GNOME-Live-x86_64.iso and I’m unable to test/install it. In case of a live system test I get only: “Oh no! Something has gone wrong. A problem has occurred and the system can’t recover. Please contact a system administrator.” and if I try to install the system the installer dies too. OpenSUSE 12.2 works and I thought to try openSUSE-Factory-GNOME-Live-Build0466-x86_64 (openSUSE 13.1 Milestone 1) but the window system get never started as it seems it crashed and left only a cursor. System is an Intel Core i5-2430 with Intel HD3000 GPU and it works fine with Debian 7 (Wheezy).
Thank you but I think it is the same if I try to boot the system with NO KMS which do not work (the same happens with your command sequence). I have tried various boot sequences:
Safe Settings => kernel dumps
No ACPI => kernel dumps
Text Mode => only black screen
No KMS (and your hint) => only black screen
but during the boot sequence I was able do write down some kernel messages and it seems there is an ACPI problem as a lot of "ACPI Warning: xxxxxxx SystemIO conflicts with Region xxxxxx but in the end it means I will not upgrade to 12.3 if even the live system do not boot as an Intel i5 with HD3000 is nothing special it is common hardware and not the newest one.
Please, did you confirm that the DVD media was good ? Did you conduct the md5sum check on the downloaded .iso file and compare that to the md5sums on the openSUSE web site ? If so, were they the same ?
When burning to a DVD did you burn at the slowest possible speed to +R or -R (not to an RW) using high quality media (and not some bargain basement special ) ? Did you burn the DVD on the same PC’s burner, or did you use that of a different PC (where calibration differences between DVD burners can cause problems).
Yes I have done all this steps and I always download .iso files as torrents which should rule out any on-disk corruption and I have checked the md5sum and the image is fine. I have also created an USB boot stick as booting from DVD is slow but nothing changed - openSUSE 12.3 do not work on this system and 12.2 works fine (Debian 7 Wheezy too - shipped with kernel 3.2.XX) and I have tried http://download.opensuse.org/factory/iso/openSUSE-Factory-GNOME-Live-x86_64-Build0473-Media.iso and it is all the same - I have tried all steps with this image but it is all the same.
IMHO there is something specific to the HD3000 implementation on your laptop. My wife’s Lenvo X220 which has HD3000 graphics works well with 12.3 KDE and the 3.7.10 kernel. DId you try to see if the KDE works better than Gnome (in case this is Gnome specific ? )
Thank you - I have downloaded KDE-Live 12.3 and the system is running (Linux linux.site 3.7.10-1.1-desktop #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Feb 28 15:06:29 UTC 2013 (82d3f21) x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux) so it rules out that I have a kernel/xorg problem and Gnome crashes for some unknown reason but I will boot back to 12.2 with Gnome as it is more comfortable as KDE.
Ok - I think I’m stupid after a lot of testing I bought a spare disk and installed openSUSE 12.3 and it works and I can confirm that Live CD do not work. Thank you.