JP Rosevear wrote:
On Fri, 2008-05-23 at 17:00 +1000, Basil Chupin wrote:
Confirm this for yourself.
(Just for the record, the version I have installed - and before the latest upgrades it was working fine - is the 32-bit version and I was using KDE4 to see what it looked liked.)
This is probably the acpi problem, requiring acpi=off to be enter as a boot option in the grub screen.
I don't know much about how things work and from this perspective I would say that it is not an "acpi=off" problem because I tried it last night and it didn't really 'fix' anything. So, I re-installed 11.0 Beta3 from the DVD with KDE4. (BTW, why has the ability to "Boot Installed System" been removed from the installation DVD? (I had to use the DVD for 10.3 to be able to boot an installed system.) Re-installing 11.0 Beta3 worked OK; and it worked OK after I used Yast2 Control Centre to upgrade ONLY the patches following the installation. The patches which were installed were: kde4-kdm kde4-kwin kdebase4-workspace libzypp satsolver-tools yast2-qt-pkg I rebooted the OS and everything kept working OK. A couple of hours ago I decided that I will allow Yast2 Control Centre's Online Upgrade to do the rest of the available PACKAGE upgrades -- had to use the Control Centre because the Updater in the taskbar doesn't work, is showing that all repositories are rubbish, and is therefore sitting there as a yellow triangle with a "!" through it -- **BUT** I did NOT allow the kernel and the kernel source to be upgraded to 2.6.25.4-2- I wanted the kernel to remain at the original x.25.3-2. Over an hour+ later the upgrades completed. I then decided to reboot to see what would happen. At this point a wheel fell off. Just one wheel. So I decided to post this message while I still could still use Thunderbird to post a message and the other 3 wheels were still on. What made me conclude that a wheel fell off? Well, when I went to reboot, the menu which comes up with the options to either close relog, close down, reboot or cancel is greyed out EXCEPT for the icons themselves which are in full colourful colour. This I have seen before which is why I decided to post this message before rebooting because seeing such a greyed out menu means that things are SNAFU. Remember, I have NOT upgraded the kernel to x.25.4-2. OK, now I will send this message off...... and I expect that I will be back online in a day or so based on past experience :'( . (But at least this time I did make a back of Thunderbird.) Ciao. -- Vulgar language is the linguistic crutch of inarticulate persons. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org