On 10/02/2021 22.16, Donald Leslie wrote:
I do not know if this where I should start.
Your subject is misleading: I have AMD hardware and I installed openSUSE out of the box. Very happy after using Nvida GPU for many years, much easier.
I have used SuSE since the days of the Atlanta Linux Showcase. There developer ( He was referred to as the IDE guy) got SuSE to work on my laptop. He spent some time poking at it. He said go to the booth and buy a copy and I will have it working for the next release. Which he did.
I have been running SuSE ever since, mostly on HP Business laptops. It has always worked fine until now. I have a HP 855 G7 which has an AMD cpu and a AMD gpu. I am running Leap 15.2 which still has a 5.3. ... kernel. I believe this also true for 15.3 .
I know Leap is meant to be stable but that should not mean not working. The laptop display worked but the HDMI port was not usable. After much pain I added the kernel/stable repository which provided a much later kernel and I can now talk to HDMI displays. Also the physical buttons on the touchpad now work.
The Leap install was painful since the installer had even more issues with the touchpad.
This install was the first distribution which did not properly support current hardware.
Maybe SuSE releases should state that they may not support current computers. Out of curiosity I also tried the Enterprise desktop product. It had more issues than Leap.
Tumbleweed also works since it also has a later kernel
Well, what you have to do is get involved with the 15.3 Beta and report your issues in Bugzilla. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.2 x86_64 at Telcontar)