On 03/24/2013 02:52 AM, Oszkó Albert wrote:
Hi all,
Since I could not bear the noise the video card's fan was making, and was afraid the high temperature kills the video chip before time, decided to go back to 12.2.from 12.3. As I learned there is no fglrx-legacy driver in 12.3 for my old ATI 48xx card, so had to use Mesa instead. Going back to 12.2 is not simple. I try to install from live KDE from an USB stick (has no DVD at the moment). There is no net connection after installation and my other HDD is not mounted. The major thing is that the HDD is spinning endlessly and I cannot figure out, what does it do or what does it looking for. I could start net and mount the other HDD in the first minute ( (in repeated boot ups) while the system is usable, after that it is extremely slow or does not respond at all. The cause is somewhere in KDE I suspect, because in failsafe (not KDE failsafe) mode or in CLI the HDD does not spin madly. So I tried to update KDE from 4.8.4 to somewhat higher version and separately install Fglrx-legacy, but after that the system could not reboot. Only GRUB is seen on the screen and the system halts (though i set grub2).
Any hints are welcome, how can I remedy these problems. I also have a WIN 7 on the same HDD.
Thanks, Albert
if you upgrade to KDE 4.10, which is the same as what you installed in 12.3, your system will probably run. Here is something you can try to upgrade: When you are on the grub boot screen, hit the "e" button to edit the boot script. Then down-arrow until the line that is the linux boot line for openSUSE 12.2 (make sure it is 12.2 and you don't accidentally do all this in 12.3). Hit the "end" key to go to the end of that line, type a space, and put in the number 3. Then hit f10 to boot, and you should boot into run level 3 (command line only with networking). If you know how to use zypper, you can modify, delete, and add repositories. First delete your old KDE repositories using zypper rr. Then you can add the KDE 4.10 repositories with the following commands. As root, type the following: zypper ar -f -n KR410 http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/Release:/410/openSUSE_12.2/ KR410 zypper ar -f -n KR410_Extra http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/Extra/KDE_Release_410_openSUS... KR410_Extra Before you do the next line, make sure that you really did delete all your old KDE repositories and the only KDE repositories you have are what you just added here. Next, do a zypper refresh. After that, you can do the following as root: zypper dup --from KR410 --from KR410_Extra This should make your KDE 4.10 for openSUSE 12.2. After you have it installed, you should be able to boot again into openSUSE 12.2 with minimal problems. At least this worked for me. -- George Olson Box #1: 12.3 | KDE 4.10 | AMD Phenom IIX4 | 64 | ATI Radeon HD 3300 | 16GB Box #2: 12.2 | KDE 4.10 | AMD Athlon X3 | 64 | nVidia C61 GeForce 7025 | 4GB Laptop: 12.2 | KDE 4.9.2 | Core i7-2620M | 64 | Intel HD Graphics 3000 | 8GB learning openSUSE and loving it -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org