andredo@wxs.nl composed on 2015-06-12 16:53 (UTC+0200):
All my trials to install the last four snapshots or 13.2 ended after the restart in a green screen with a rectangle with two maps; 'home' and 'thrash'. I could than create some other rectangles but no progress. What is going wrong?
I think I finally did enough testing and research to find out. It turns out I was derelict in testing on my own GeForce 6150SE system. I thought it had a hardware problem causing the unique problems I experienced. After all, it was given to me because it was giving trouble to its owner. He bought a new motherboard, CPU and RAM. I installed it and openSUSE, and got his old hardware in the deal. So I presumed hardware defect rather than software defect. 13.1 worked OK, and 13.2 and TW were OK as long as not pushed beyond basic function. It eventually turned out to have bad RAM causing its sporadic inability to POST. Nouveau got broken upstream on the 6150SE over two years ago. https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=71382 explains that for certain GeForce gfxchips to work with newer nouveau and kernel requires a special kernel cmdline parameter: nouveau.config=NvMSI=0 The openSUSE installer does not use the nouveau driver, which explains why André's repeated video trouble didn't manifest during installation, only afterward. Ubuntu users were having similar trouble 6 months before the upstream bug was filed. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-nouveau/+bug/11... It looks like https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=898932 may be the same problem. -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org