On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 01:27, Insomniac wrote:

Okay...forget the sound problem. My system just won't shut down. It sticks at a dark gray screen until I hold the power button down and shut it off. Doing that makes the reboot nauseatingly slow.

Another thing I've noticed happening - sometimes, not always, typing is anywhere from a second to a few seconds behind what I'm actually typing, *OR*, typing in the root password when I start YAST...sometimes the typing goes crazy and two or three characters will come up when I've only hit one key on the keyboard.

Any ideas at all what this could be? This hard booting is gonna fry my hdd, I just know it.

Just a thought... you said it's an 11.3 install? Are you also seeing periodic system slowdowns (where the desktop seems to freeze or stop responding for 1 or 2 seconds)? openSUSE 11.3 had some rather annoying kernel related issues that caused all sorts of grief on some hardware combinations. This was hammered to death on the mailing list here, so there are loads of threads on it (search the archives for "kernel:HEAD" to see what the discussions were about). This might be a solution... I'm not 100% certain it'll resolve your issues, but whenever I see someone with odd issues on 11.3, the kernel is the first thing I think of since that always seemed to be the root cause on any system I worked on. Updating to a more current kernel shouldn't hurt regardless. C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org