On Sat, 04 Feb 2012 10:38:10 -0800 Lew Wolfgang <wolfgang@sweet-haven.com> wrote:
Hi Jessie,
I've seen this myself with 12.1. I have a feeling it's something to do with the nVidia graphics.
Once I see the garbled screen I wait a fairly long time (5-minutes?) to make sure the install has finished doing whatever it's doing. I then hit the power button momentarily in the hope a graceful shutdown will be started. It usually doesn't, so I wait another long time before holding the power button down to force the power off.
The box should then boot up and proceed with the install where it left off. I've had to do this more than once on a couple of installs.
IMHO this is a fatal flaw in 12.1 for new users to openSuSE. I can't honestly recommend the system to anyone who will be doing their own install. I'm not complaining, it's still a great system once you get past the installation and switch over to the nVidia tarball driver.
Regards, Lew
Just out of curiosity, why tarball and not the nVidia rpm repository? Thx! Carl -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org