On Thu, May 24, 2007 8:32 am, Eberhard Roloff wrote:

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When I type tail /var/log/messages I don't see anything strange.

Well if it turns out to be non-X related, i.e. if your hardware freezes in runlevel three, as well, I would try to do it the old fashioned way with disabling certain kernel parameters like "noacpi" and similar. Ex. http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-HOWTO/BootPrompt-HOWTO.html

I don't know if I've run in runlevel3. I really wouldn't be able to do anything there, as my work is all GUI.

Also you might google for other users experiences with Linux on your

hardware.

regards Eberhard, who concludes (once again, just for me and myself!) that

brand

new hardware is not the ideal place for Linux, especially not if the hardware in question is a notebook.

I wouldn't have done it, except I have a buddy with the same notebook. He's had it for about six months and runs SLED. I figured it would be safe to run openSUSE. Dunno. I've been running Amarok now for over an hour with no issues. I did download the latest nVidia driver, but am a bit fearful of loading it in case I mess up. Also I believe I'd have to hand-edit my xorg.conf file. Not something I'm inclined to do. At this point, the machine locked up. I am still able to SSH into it from my XP box. Looking at the messages I see: login as: root Last login: Thu May 24 11:18:42 2007 from 10.3.15.90 Have a lot of fun... jabba:/home/kai # tail /var/log/messages May 24 11:48:12 jabba zmd: ServiceManager (ERROR): Service refresh failed for 'SUSE-Linux-10.2-Updates': Failed to parse XML metadata: Can't add repository at http://mirror.mcs.anl.gov/suse/update/10.2: Unknown source type for http://mirror.mcs.anl.gov/suse/update/10.2 May 24 12:00:26 jabba sshd[5419]: error: PAM: Authentication failure for root from 10.3.15.90 May 24 12:00:27 jabba sshd[5419]: error: PAM: Authentication failure for root from 10.3.15.90 May 24 12:00:30 jabba sshd[5419]: Accepted keyboard-interactive/pam for root from 10.3.15.90 port 3096 ssh2 jabba:/home/kai # Nothing there appears out of the ordinary. In fact, the machine is obviously running. Looking more like an x.org issue, eh? -- k -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org