On Thursday 17 Mar 2011 20:14:08 James Knott wrote:
After all the problems with 11.4 and 11.3 on my ThinkPad, I've decided to blow it all away and revert to 11.0. At least that worked well.
Problems:
11.4 - unable to use KDE, as system locked up and display faded 11.3, unreliable USB detection. Why no "Safely remove" option? Display often shifted about 1/2" to right, but mouse didn't. Poorer performance. General frustration with KDE 4.
As I've often pointed out, since I first saw KDE 4, a few years ago, it needs a lot of work to be anywhere near as useful as 3.5 It would be *VERY* nice if support were resumed for 11.0, which would appear to be the last decent openSUSE distro. My experiences with KDE 4 are almost enough to send me back to Windows! What a piece of crap!!!
Before you give up on progress, I would try to localise the problem with 11.4. Use a Live CD if you don't have an install atm. Google says the graphics hardware on the R31 is an intel i830, which probably doesn't support any advanced graphics. Check: * Is the lockup/display fade issue specific to KDE? Try choosing IceWM from the login screen instead * If so, perhaps the video driver is advertising capabilities it doesn't have. Try disabling desktop effects manually: ** Boot to runlevel 3 (add '3' to the kernel params in the bootloader) ** Login as user ** Run "kwriteconfig --file kwinrc --group Compositing --key Enabled false" ** (this edits kwinrc for you) ** Switch to runlevel 5 (init 5) and login * If not specific to KDE, perhaps your hardware does not support modesetting - boot with kernel param 'nomodeset' HTH Will NB I blacklisted a bunch of intel chipsets from using KDE's desktop effects before 11.4 was released, but only the ones I know have problems. -- Will Stephenson, openSUSE Team SUSE LINUX Products GmbH - Nürnberg - AG Nürnberg - HRB 16746 - GF: Markus Rex -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org