On 1/19/19 2:05 PM, Rainer Hantsch wrote:
A few days ago my friend's workmate bought a cheap, new MEDION Laptop at Hofer/Aldi. They both (my friend and his workmate) do not use openSUSE, they use other OSes.
It was absolutely impossible to boot+install their favorite Linux with kernel older than 4.19. They finally tried a distro with this newer 4.19 kernel (I think it was MX Linux, coming with kernel 4.19.
So my initial assumption, that the problems are caused by the ancient default kernel in Leap 15, is hereby confirmed.
Your message sounds somewhat confusing. Did they try to install openSUSE Leap 15 or not? If not then you still don't have a proof that Leap 15 does not run on this hardware because Leap's kernel-default contains *many* backport patches. Ciao, Michael.