Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3261 mails)

[Jens H.Nielsen <2059327m001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 24. April 2001 07:13, Rafael E. Herrera wrote:
> Not everybody is bitten by the via bugs. It's a serious problem and has
> not been solved yet. A machine at school would not boot with the 2.2.18
> update from suse a few weeks ago and the problem was with the
> optimizations used with the VIA chipset. It is being discussed in the
> linux-kernel mailing list also.

Mine too. It just hangs at VP_something calibrating PCI clocks or similar. 
Using the boxed 2.2.18, 2.4.0 or 2.4.2 works okay though. I suppose this
is also the reason my Nvidia gives black console with CTRL + Alt + F1 or
during shutdown.

I did a compile of Kernel 2.4.3, but screwed up somewhere as it didn't find
my boot device...oh hell, I'll probably try again as soon as the Kernelwizard
at SuSE puts up the source with patches (Hail to Mantel) :-)

> My mentioning it was to make a point that linux will not run out of the
> box for everybody, that in some cases it'll plainly bomb.  People here
> are complaining that their upgrades didn't work and blamed suse about
> it.

Upgrades are always risky. It's better just to backup /home and /etc and
maybe even /usr/local and start with a fresh install :-)

> This forum is for us users to help each other, all this argument is
> moving slowly in figuring out what happened to these guys. The sooner
> they start describing their problems in detail the quicker we'll solve
> it.

I have been at a point where my system was so screwed I had to boot via the 
install DVD. YaST/SuSEconfig always got it back on track. I will not go away
from SuSE.

Sorry if this post is offtopic, I just felt I wanted to share my thoughts in 
a rather hostile enviroment at the moment.

Later,
Jens