On Sunday 13 January 2002 08:48 am, Ron Joffe wrote:
I'll have to see if there is anything enables in the laptop bios. It would be a real bummer if I couldn't shut it off anymore.
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Well unfortunately for me it appears not to be a bios/apm problem after all. Got the lockup last night and tried some troubleshooting. I now know without a doubt that I cannot run SuSEconfig (and therefore many yast related maintenance functions) without my machine either locking up -w/ the flashing keyboard lights or in some cases totally resetting itself. This occured even when running at init 1 (single user mode). Once while in single user and once at a normal login I was able to view the output of SuSEconfig and noticed alot of gobbledygook (looked like a binary file viewed in a text editor) just before the lockup/reset. The last line printed before locking up is something about "susewm". I haven't been this frustrated since my Amiga gave up the ghost. I wouldn't want to be trying to convince a nyone how good SuSE/Linux is today, I'm just totally at a loss. One other possible avenue is that I installed the kde experimental rpm's (never was able to login to kde3 though). I dont know why this would mess things up when runnung a single user console. Best of luck dh