Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4393 mails)

[Jason Poynting <jpoynting@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Well I knew it wasn't going to be easy, but I didn't expect the upgrade
to go this bad. I have a G400 32mb graphics card which has had problems
before with Suse releases, but was working OK.

Yesterday I tried to upgrade from 7.2 to 7.3. It's still not working
properly. I originally had Xfree 4.1.0 and a 2.4.7 kernel. I'd had a
couple of problems with blank consoles, but adding the "NoHal" option
seemed to fix it.

The 7.3 kernel didn't seem to work at all. When yast2 changed screens in
X, it crashed. When the console screensave kicked in, it crashed.

So I installed the source. Copied the vmlinuz.config settings and
switched off the frame buffer support. Then I recompiled it. The first
time it booted up, the screen was blank, but I could telnet in. I
switched off the vga boot screen and rebooted.

It seemed better. I could switched between consoles. So I started X and
that seemed OK. Then I exited it. It crashed. The resulting fsck was a
bit worrying.

So I guess I have several options:

a) Try the Matrox drivers from their website
b) Put 2.4.7 back on.
c) Try the Suse 2.4.14 kernel package
d) Try rebuilding the 2.4.14 Suse source with framebuffers switched off
e) Try the same with the vanilla 2.4.15 sources

Any suggestions?

Jason

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