On 9/12/18 4:09 PM, Anton Aylward wrote:
On 2018-09-12 6:44 p.m., don fisher wrote:
I do not know how to be more clear. I have a boot problem on later kernels, and this is why I needed later kernels.
Why this thread? My threads always seem to spiral out of control!
You have a boot problem.
I don't know where you latest kernel problems emerging from security fixes come from. I've been booting kernels from kernel_Stable and am now on 4.18.7-1 with 42.3 and I've always done the vanilla mkinitrd with not fiddling with settings. I'm more conservative and won't move to 15 series until EOL for 42.3 gets closer. As it is, 42.3 is stable.
Yes, I'm using Intel drivers, but then again people like Patrick have observed the lack of problems with TW and nVidia.
Personally I don't think your boot problems focus on the latest or the not-latest kernel but on your boot process and possibly your kernel hacking.
Long term readers might recall that I have a habit of taking older hardware and making it run even with late model openSUSE. The WIntel conspiracy and the corporate tax system sets a lifetime for PCs and laptops, and I find great equipment in corporate closets or skips that are "PC Graveyards". My current monitor came from a skip and just needed capacitors replacing :-) My under-the-desk SQL server is a 21 year old laptop. I set it up and hav't need to do anything to it for two years now :-)
A lot of my equipment can't run modern Windows, some doesn't have the memory to do VM. But the Linux seems to be more trouble free for the people I've set up when they found they coudln't run later model Windows and didn't want new hardware, and they say it is more responsive and unlike Windows, the performance doesn't degrade over time.
What you might gather from this is that the 'latest', be it hardware or software' is often not a solution.
As a photographer, I live by the adage 'the camera you carry with you is better than the latest, most expensive gear. I carry a point-and-shoot in my shirt pocket. Professional photographers of my acquaintance tell me they do the same. The PC equivalent of that saying would be that the machine you have working is better than the latest gear with the bleeding edge kernel and drivers.
I think you are either plain jinked or that you are creating your own problems by dealing with complexity where none is needed.
My problem appears to be specific to running on the Alienware 13. All other platforms run without incident. Takashi Iwai stated in his response "The boot hang with the latest update kernel is likely a regression due to the recent security fixes and we're working on it" So it is nothing that I have done to the system. And this time at leas, this rant on my opening multiple subjects is not valid, in my opinion. I have a Canon 5dMK4, but am a bit disabled so never get out to use it:-( Also the reason I wanted the light Alienware 13. To be 20 again! Don -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org