[opensuse-factory] 11.3M1 KDE LiveCD Fails on Thinkpad A22m
When I use the M1 disk, I get a corrupted desktop that basically freezes the computer unless I select Text Mode. The display is 1400x1050 with an ATI Mobility M3/8MB chip. None of the graphics options worked(I did not try VESA). This chip is very well supported. When selecting Text Mode and Installation, you don't get anything except a login prompt. If we aren't supporting installation from Text Mode, maybe that shouldn't be an allowed option? Or maybe there should be some text explaining that you can't install from Text mode? I was able to run SaX2 from Text Mode to properly select the video settings and when I did an "init 5" the installation started. I was given a warning that I need 1GB to run the installation from the LiveCD. Is this really a requirement now? The machine only supports 512MB MAX. Also, I have a swap partition. Perhaps it could be set to ask if an existing swap partition should be used? Installing now. Will update on what happens when it's done. And Yes, I know M2 is out. Don't have an internet connection fast enough to pull it ATM, and I needed to do a reinstall because my 11.0 install got corrupted and only had the M1 disk handy so thought I would give it a go. Also, now we have to check the box to agree with the license agreement? I thought that it wasn't necessary anymore as of 11.1 or something.... Thanx -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
Well, no luck. It locked up at 29% of copying the image.......... Oh well I guess it ran out of RAM On 2/16/10, Larry Stotler <larrystotler@gmail.com> wrote:
When I use the M1 disk, I get a corrupted desktop that basically freezes the computer unless I select Text Mode. The display is 1400x1050 with an ATI Mobility M3/8MB chip. None of the graphics options worked(I did not try VESA). This chip is very well supported.
When selecting Text Mode and Installation, you don't get anything except a login prompt. If we aren't supporting installation from Text Mode, maybe that shouldn't be an allowed option? Or maybe there should be some text explaining that you can't install from Text mode?
I was able to run SaX2 from Text Mode to properly select the video settings and when I did an "init 5" the installation started.
I was given a warning that I need 1GB to run the installation from the LiveCD. Is this really a requirement now? The machine only supports 512MB MAX. Also, I have a swap partition. Perhaps it could be set to ask if an existing swap partition should be used?
Installing now. Will update on what happens when it's done.
And Yes, I know M2 is out. Don't have an internet connection fast enough to pull it ATM, and I needed to do a reinstall because my 11.0 install got corrupted and only had the M1 disk handy so thought I would give it a go.
Also, now we have to check the box to agree with the license agreement? I thought that it wasn't necessary anymore as of 11.1 or something....
Thanx
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Next update - I turned on swap using swapon and watched what was happening from tty2. It never ran out of RAM, but still managed to hard lock. No way to get at the logs..... On 2/16/10, Larry Stotler <larrystotler@gmail.com> wrote:
Well, no luck. It locked up at 29% of copying the image.......... Oh well
I guess it ran out of RAM
On 2/16/10, Larry Stotler <larrystotler@gmail.com> wrote:
When I use the M1 disk, I get a corrupted desktop that basically freezes the computer unless I select Text Mode. The display is 1400x1050 with an ATI Mobility M3/8MB chip. None of the graphics options worked(I did not try VESA). This chip is very well supported.
When selecting Text Mode and Installation, you don't get anything except a login prompt. If we aren't supporting installation from Text Mode, maybe that shouldn't be an allowed option? Or maybe there should be some text explaining that you can't install from Text mode?
I was able to run SaX2 from Text Mode to properly select the video settings and when I did an "init 5" the installation started.
I was given a warning that I need 1GB to run the installation from the LiveCD. Is this really a requirement now? The machine only supports 512MB MAX. Also, I have a swap partition. Perhaps it could be set to ask if an existing swap partition should be used?
Installing now. Will update on what happens when it's done.
And Yes, I know M2 is out. Don't have an internet connection fast enough to pull it ATM, and I needed to do a reinstall because my 11.0 install got corrupted and only had the M1 disk handy so thought I would give it a go.
Also, now we have to check the box to agree with the license agreement? I thought that it wasn't necessary anymore as of 11.1 or something....
Thanx
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On 16/02/10 21:43, Larry Stotler wrote:
When I use the M1 disk, I get a corrupted desktop that basically freezes the computer unless I select Text Mode. The display is 1400x1050 with an ATI Mobility M3/8MB chip. None of the graphics options worked(I did not try VESA). This chip is very well supported.
Sounds like an Xorg bug, logs would be useful ...
I was given a warning that I need 1GB to run the installation from the LiveCD. Is this really a requirement now? The machine only supports 512MB MAX. Also, I have a swap partition. Perhaps it could be set to ask if an existing swap partition should be used?
The 1GB requirement is mostly because of the "Live" part of the LiveCD, the install process itself uses less RAM than that and once installed it runs fine with less RAM. IIRC the installer does ask if it can use existing swap partitions once it gets started ...(?) Regards, Tejas -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
On 2/16/10, Tejas Guruswamy <masterpatricko@gmail.com> wrote:
Sounds like an Xorg bug, logs would be useful ...
System hard locks so that's not an option unfortunately.
The 1GB requirement is mostly because of the "Live" part of the LiveCD, the install process itself uses less RAM than that and once installed it runs fine with less RAM.
Still a little on the high side IMO.
IIRC the installer does ask if it can use existing swap partitions once it gets started ...(?)
Not that I saw. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
Am Mittwoch 17 Februar 2010 schrieb Larry Stotler:
The 1GB requirement is mostly because of the "Live" part of the LiveCD, the install process itself uses less RAM than that and once installed it runs fine with less RAM.
Still a little on the high side IMO. It doesn't say it requires 1G, it says you should close all other applications if you want to continue with less than 1G and I think that's very fair, because the copying from CD-ROM to hard drive requires a lot of free cache space.
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