On Sat, 2006-07-01 at 18:38 -0700, John Boyle wrote:
To SLE and Andy Goss: I have to agree with you. I had to retrograde to 9.2 Pro to be able to use my SuSe at all. Of course, I am on my Windows box right now, which I have kept for when I get frustrated at Linux!!
Bug resolved:
"Your video BIOS does not pass the checksum test (and for good reason, as the bus error you see proves). hwinfo is expected to switch to using the cpu emulation in such cases - but, as it turned out, the code for this was broken.
I've fixed it for 10.2."
So its a new graphics card, wait for 10.2 Final, or try 10.2 Alpha 2 when it arrives.
My thanks, good gentlemen of SUSE, for your prompt and efficient investigation.
I have four Linux distros and no Windows. I take frequent backups and can be pretty sure I can get something to work if I stuff up badly. FC4 is my workhorse on one drive, with Vector 5.1, SUSE 10.1, and Ubuntu/Kubuntu 6.06 as experimental installs on the other. Currently only Kubuntu seems to work, and I have not had a chance to check it out properly yet. I might try SUSE 10.0 again, as I was sufficiently impressed by it to want 10.1. I was surprised at the extent that simple things that worked on 10.0 did not on 10.1, I have seen a number of posts from people who have had similar experiences. I assume some radical re-thinking of the underpinnings has been going on. As an ex-programmer I can appreciate that what looks like a nice solid product to the end user may be a horrible mess of fudges underneath, and that in replacing it with a good fundamental design and maintainable structure a few problems will appear. I saw a quote pinned up once; "If you don't have time to do it properly, do you have time to do it again?" Which bears thinking about. Andy Goss -- 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