[opensuse] Kernel won't load properly, touchpad won't work
Hi, my laptop which I carry with me on business trips died, and I purchased a new laptop. Its an ASUS Q303UA, and I loaded opensuse Leap 42.1 on it today. It has one issue with hardware, the touchpad isn't recognized. I tried to find some info about how to fix this and the long and short of it is that Ubuntu guys say that the driver is in kernel 4.5x and after. The kernel which is loaded at the opensuse 42.1 install is 4.1.21-14-default. I tried to install a newer kernel, 4.6.0-4.g2a4d959-default first from this repository: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Kernel:/stable/standard/ However, when I try to boot with that kernel, I get the following message: Loading linux 4.6.0-4.g2a4d959-default ... error: /boot/vmlinuz-4.6.0-4.g2a4d959-default has invalid signature. Loading initial ramdisk ... error: You need to load the kernel first. Press any key to continue. I next removed the 4.6 kernel from that repository, and changed repositories to the following: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Kernel:/HEAD/standard/x86_64/ I installed kernel 4.6.0-4.1.g779b2fc-default, then rebooted. When I tried to boot with this 4.6 kernel, I get the same message as above with the other 4.6 kernel. I decided to try to put a lower kernel than that which was installed during the installation, and installed kernel-default 4.1.20-11 -default. With this kernel I can boot normally without any error message. I don't know how to get the 4.6 kernels to load to see if that will fix the touchpad problem. Maybe there is another way to get the touchpad working, but I am not aware of it. Does someone recognize these problems that can advise me of a solution? Thanks, Mark -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
29.05.2016 03:48, Mark Misulich пишет:
Hi, my laptop which I carry with me on business trips died, and I purchased a new laptop. Its an ASUS Q303UA, and I loaded opensuse Leap 42.1 on it today.
It has one issue with hardware, the touchpad isn't recognized. I tried to find some info about how to fix this and the long and short of it is that Ubuntu guys say that the driver is in kernel 4.5x and after. The kernel which is loaded at the opensuse 42.1 install is 4.1.21-14-default.
I tried to install a newer kernel, 4.6.0-4.g2a4d959-default first from this repository: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Kernel:/stable/standard/
However, when I try to boot with that kernel, I get the following message:
Loading linux 4.6.0-4.g2a4d959-default ...
error: /boot/vmlinuz-4.6.0-4.g2a4d959-default has invalid signature. Loading initial ramdisk ...
You need to disable secure boot in your system's setup. Those kernels are not signed with standard openSUSE key, so verification fails. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
Am 29.05.2016 um 02:48 schrieb Mark Misulich:
Hi, my laptop which I carry with me on business trips died, and I purchased a new laptop. Its an ASUS Q303UA, and I loaded opensuse Leap 42.1 on it today.
It has one issue with hardware, the touchpad isn't recognized. I tried to find some info about how to fix this and the long and short of it is that Ubuntu guys say that the driver is in kernel 4.5x and after. The kernel which is loaded at the opensuse 42.1 install is 4.1.21-14-default.
I tried to install a newer kernel, 4.6.0-4.g2a4d959-default first from this repository: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Kernel:/stable/standard/
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Does someone recognize these problems that can advise me of a solution?
Thanks, Mark
I have similar hardware and finally gave up and live without touchpad... The current kernels (up to 4.3 or 4.4 I think) do not know about this touchpad. Newer kernels have other problems, as you experienced. Even with the help of an open-suse-kernel developper I was not able to get in running. So, for me the solution is... an external mouse... You can see the story about the attempts here: https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=969098 Sorry that I can't give you better news... Daniel -- Daniel Bauer photographer Basel Barcelona http://www.daniel-bauer.com room in Barcelona: https://www.airbnb.es/rooms/2416137 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On Sun, 2016-05-29 at 10:19 +0200, Daniel Bauer wrote:
Am 29.05.2016 um 02:48 schrieb Mark Misulich:
So, for me the solution is... an external mouse...
You can see the story about the attempts here: https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=969098
Sorry that I can't give you better news...
Daniel
Hi Daniel, thanks for your response. Later in the evening after I posted to the list for help, I stumbled on your post to the list and found the link to the bug report. I worked on it using the instructions in the bug report but still couldn't get the 4.6 kernels to load by the time I gave up and went to bed. I tried Andre Borzenkov's instruction to disable secure boot this morning, and I was able to load the 4.6 kernel on boot without any problem. As soon as I got to desktop I tried the touchpad, and it seems to work well with the 4.6 kernel. I am crossing my fingers that I don't run into other problems that you mentioned with the later kernel. Mark -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
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Andrei Borzenkov
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Daniel Bauer
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Mark Misulich