Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3217 mails)

["" <merkin@xxxxxxx>]

Hi,

As the Subject says, I've been using SuSE since 7.0 (or so) and regularly just
upgrade rather than make a fresh install but this time when I did that chaos
erupted.  So, hoping that I would have better luck if I just started fresh, I
re-installed 9.0 fresh.  Things are no better.  (Oh, I have also updated all of
the files available through YOU.  Well, all except the kernel which YOU has not
been able to download.  Things are, again, not improved.  I also managed,
somehow, to get the nVidia drivers installed.  Still no improvement.)

The situation:

Basically the system just decides to reboot for no apparent reason

or, it locks up tight as a drum and I have to actually pull the plug 

or, or it locks but not quite as tight and my on-off switch will work to turn
off the 'chine.


All of this is after sometimes five minutes of use.  (Sometimes considerably
longer.  Usually if I just turned on YOU and let it operate without my doing
anything else [at all -- like I went into the other room and watched the
television] then things would precede okay for a good time.)

(Some of this stuff is actually kinda funny.  Whenever I try to open KMail the
entire system spontaneously reboots, immediately.  It sure doesn't want me to
use KMail.)

I've always loved SuSE and never had anything like this.

So, A)  are others having similar problems with SuSE v9.0?
    B)  anyone out there have any ideas?


I'm using a no-name Pentium 4 (3 GHz) box with an nVidia GeForce FX 5200
graphics board. Other info available on request.