Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4393 mails)

[Bernie Gardner <bernie.gardner@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I am trying to upgrade my laptop from 7.2 to 7.3.  I used the default upgrade 
in YAST2 and things seemed to go as planned.  However, when I try to start 
KDE 2.2, the startup hangs.  The console shows the message 'spurious 8259A 
interrupt:IRQ7', and the cap=lock and scroll-lock indicator lignts flash on 
and off.  This continues 'forever' (I actually let it go all day today as I 
had to go to work!)  The computer is completely locked, and I can't get into 
a text mode terminal or reboot.  The only way to get out is to turn the 
computer off and endure the fsck process on the next boot.  I also tried 
GNOME.  This actually loaded and seemed to work ok for a while, but within a 
few minutes exactly the same happened.  The computer seems stable in text 
mode if I don't get into a window environment.

The above problems are using the stock 2.4.10 kernel.  I also tried going 
back to the 2.4.5 kernel which I've been using in 7.2.  This kernel is 
patched for wn4linux.  Wtih the 2.4.5 kernel, KDE works fine.  However the 
pcmcia system doesn't work, so I can't get any network connection.  The 
network (and modem) cards had worked fine with this kernel in version 7.2.  
At this point I would really like to have a stable window evnvironment with 
network support.  I'm not particular about wich kernel!  

Any suggestions greatly appreciated!

Bernie

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