Clayton wrote:
I don't know how to even begin to describe what's going on with my computer....
I have an AMD X2 3800+ in an ASRock939DualSATA-2 motherboard, 2GB ram in single channel mode and an nVidia 6600GT.
I had the system working fine on Friday, but decided to do a clean install to tidy up some of the tinkering I'd been doing. So I know that this hardware was fine with SUSE10.1 at one point.
After a re-install (and standard update plus the latest nVidia video driver) all hell broke loose (so to speak). Something is running in the background (I think that's the cause) that spazzes my keyboard out. When I try to type, I get LOADS of repeated letters. It's as if the keyboard repeat is on 0ms delay and 1000cps - and it's not on all the time... it comes and goes. I can easily fill an entire screen with a single character when it hits though. Imagine how long it's taking me to type this email :-(
I've tried disabling things like Beagle (and the Beagle daemon)... no change. Complete clean boots... same behavior. I've scanned through the logs... nothing unusual.
On top of the spazzing keyboard, the screen also blanks out on me and the computer goes into hibernate mode - while I'm usng it! This also makes it basically impossible to use...
What really has me totally baffled is that this is the exact same install as before... and it worked fine before.
I've even tried a full update with Smart (from Guru). Nothing fixes this... so far.
So anyone else encountering this? What or where can I look to fix this?
I haven't encountered this but since all this developed after the re-install then there is a need to look at what could have happened at this stage. You will remember that the Linux kernel depends on the BIOS to be in control of the hardware so did anything happen in the BIOS before you re-installed? The other thing, did you reformat the partition before re-installing? I always re-read the partition information and then always format the linux partition (I dual boot at the moment) before re-installing. This ensures that there is no crud sitting around. Just a couple of thoughts. Cheers. -- This computer is environment-friendly and is running on OpenSuSE 10.1 -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com