jdd@dodin.org composed on 2018-04-28 20:58 (UTC+0200):
Felix Miata a écrit :
Not a problem on the hundreds of Linux installations here
do you start hundred of installs with startx that your own link say "startx is no longer supported since more than a decade now"?
None say anything about support. That "not supported" stuff is from devs such as Stefan Dirsch. Startx is a part of Xorg as provided by upstream freesdesktop.org. It's in every openSUSE and every other Linux release I've ever used, and, as root, _always_ works here unless X is broken so that it cannot be run at all.
Given there are on this computer old install perfectly running, is there a way to use the old kernel for test purpose?
For 42.3? TW? By what to you mean "old kernel"? Original 42.3 kernel? Kernel for older distribution release?
as said there is a 12.1 install running on this computer (the goal was to install something more modern :-(), so there is a kernel on this system that works
12.1 is probably way too old, with only minimal support for systemd. Maybe the extended support 3.12 kernel for 13.1 could be used if you think the kernel is the problem, which I doubt. I do remember when new Sandy Bridge seemed to be particularly troublesome to support. Maybe it still is, and a special kernel or Xorg startup option would solve the blinking??? -- "Wisdom is supreme; therefore get wisdom. Whatever else you get, get wisdom." Proverbs 4:7 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org