Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3513 mails)

[Wendell Nichols <wcn00@xxxxxxx>]

Stan, I have a thinkpad t61p and got similar results.  You don't have a
functioning display driver :(
Reboot your system and at the boot prompt enter:
init 3
so it only goes to the text login.
Login as root and run yast.  Its a little clumsy but persevere and you
will be rewarded :)
Add the nvidia repository from:
http://download.nvidia.com/opensuse/11.1

Then do a system update.  That should install the proprietary nvidia
driver for your machine. 

You can also download the driver from nvidia and go through the
installer manually...
wcn

Stan Goodman wrote:
> I posted the earlier phases of this adventure here about a month ago, and 
> have since "progressed", but always with similar results in the end.
>
> It quickly became clear that the DVD drive had failed in the middle of the 
> installation, and I replaced it. Using the Installation DVD, I ran the 
> installation-media verification routine, and found that it was defective 
> (I have checked the iso file's MD5 code before I burned it), so I burned 
> another and verified it successfully. I then installed v11.1 from this 
> valid DVD.
>
> Installation and configuration proceeded normally, but instead of 
> rebooting to present me with a finished system, it stalled with a dark 
> screen and unblinking cursor in the upper-left corner. A five minute wait 
> convinced me that it was going nowhere. 
>
> (Two previous installations with the unverified DVD got further than this, 
> in one case bringing up a finished system which I was able to use for the 
> rest of the evening, but which failed to boot the following morning.)
>
> In order to try diagnose the reason for all this, I installed Windows XP, 
> using the entire 20GB HD. This installed faultlessly, and ran perfectly, 
> even after two shutdowns and reboots. I interpret this as meaning that I 
> do not have a hardware problem.
>
> At the moment, the only thing I can think of is that the partitioning 
> scheme I chose is inadequate, because that's the only thing that has not 
> been tested. I have partitioned the HD as follows (from the beginning of 
> the disk):
>
> Primary       /boot   560MB   ext3    (GRUB)
> Logical       Swap    560MB   Swap
> Logical       /       8GB     ext3
> Logical       /home   10GB    ext3
>
> I don't know what else to examine, and would be very grateful for comments 
> and advice.
>
>   
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