On Monday 06 February 2012 21:02:20 Joachim Schrod wrote:
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(Sorry that I'm not able to express this better at 3am, but I'm not a native English speaker. Reading it through, it's not as differentiated as I'd have liked it to be. But having a mother-in-law with only 45% sight on one eye and 5% sight on the other, I can sympathize with Bob and therefore contribute here more privately than I'd usually do.)
Thanks Joachim. For your advice and ynderstanding. It is appreciated very much, And BTW your English and vocabulary are excellent. Better than many native speakers And God Bless Felix for his patience and help, and his efforts to make my situation understood. It is somewhat embarassing to me though to be talked aabout on this list. Luckily I came to meet Felix when we discovered we live fairly close to each other and I was able to bring my box to him when I had a problem I could not solve. Problems I used to be able to solve and no longer can because I have such difficulty reading. I have absolutely no computer training whatsoever but have a fairly extensive backround in electronics. I was introduced to computers at a fairly late stage of life many years ago. ( Iwill turn 77 in two months) when I built my first box and my son installed first DOS anbd then Windows 3.1 for me. Then I discovered FOSS and Linux starting out with Red Hat and then moving to SuSE 6 something. I joined what was the predecessors of this list and everything I have ever learned was from this list and the great people here. Too many great people past and present and I would fear naming rhem lest I leave one of them out. To clarify my situation; I have macular degeneration, an insidious disease that develops and worsens over the years and still has no cure. I am now legally blind. I can see but very poorly. I can no longer drive or even be able to trim the fat off my meat at mealtime. Enough of that though. I followed yours and Felix'x advice an uninstalled kernel-default but got some strange results. At nest boot-up X started up and gave me my GUI. I didn't have sound and couldn't connect to the internet. I kept trying different things and finally did a uname -r and saw the kernel was kernel-default. I checked with zypper and it is definitely not installed anymore. I also booted the failsafe version where I got sound and connectivity and it is running the kernel-desktop. Strange, So I have a lot more sluething to do. Anyway Joachim, thanks again for your kindness and attempts to help. And thanks also to all the others who offered information and I learned more again. Bob S -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org