Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4393 mails)

[Scheme Loh <schemebot@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- Rob Lofland <rlofland@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Installation goes fine but when I try to configure
> the X server, the PC
> locks up and will only respond to a hardware reset.
> Subsequent reboot
> invokes fsck and shows damage to /dev/hdb3.

What video card?

It's prolly not "damage," but ext2 is sensitive to a
warm reboot or having the power cut if it can't
perform a proper shutdown. ie it's normal. It checks
the disk and fixes any wierdness it finds.

I've had these types of lock-ups configuring X server
if the video card was weakly supported or similar.

Try real simple video settings like 800x600 and
especially 16-bit instead of 24 or 32 bit color to
make sure the system itself works, then get about
tweaking the video card set-up.

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Daniel Woodard

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