Comments on: Quickies: openSUSE 10.3 Beta3+ Live-CDs, 10.3 Beta 3 Report, oSC Changes, KDE 4.0 Beta 2

By: Peter

Peter — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 08:47:34 +0000

Well, I downloaded both Live CDs and took them for a quick spin on my Acer Aspire 1644WMLi Notebook [ http://en.opensuse.org/HCL/Laptops/Acer#Aspire ], on which openSUSE 10.2 is running perfectly well, but still same old issue of oversized fonts; desktop icons, open program window menus and kdm greeter and login screen options (kde edition), gdm greeter and login screen options (Gnome edition).

The cause of ALL my problems above (and with previous Beta and Alpha versions) was the new “intel” experimental modprobe graphics driver! I reverted back to the old intel “i810″ graphics driver and ALL OK now! Great, I can now check out 10.3 and see what all the rave is about. :-)

The workaround for reverting back to i810 (from the release notes in 10.3 RC1)is following:
in init 3 console mode, code: ‘sax2 -r -m i810‘ (without inverted commas)

and use code:sax2 -r to go back to the default new “intel” driver.

I will be submitting a bug report for my hardware, soon!

By: Peter

Peter — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 11:04:59 +0000

Comment by tactus: Unfortunately that didn’t work either…
Hi,
I tried the lot and had no trouble booting (but plenty of other issues) from the CD-ROM drive (I posted the first 3 messages above), did you check your md sums and did you burn the isos at the lowest speed you could?

Maybe you should check whether your bios is enabled to boot from the CD-ROM drive.

Cheers

By: tactus

tactus — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 20:54:24 +0000

Unfortunately that didn’t work either…

By: tactus

tactus — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 20:37:08 +0000

Like superjan kiwi reports it can’t see the cdrom, this is with the GNOME cd. Will try the KDE spin now.

By: superjan

superjan — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 17:23:38 +0000

Still unable to boot the beta. Kiwi tell’s me it can’t find the CD-drive en hangs :(

By: Peter

Peter — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 12:58:33 +0000

Worked out the password issue, none used (blank)! :-)

By: Peter

Peter — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 02:49:24 +0000

The above xorg.conf monitor section is from openSUSE beta 3+ Gnome Live CD.

By: Peter

Peter — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 02:45:13 +0000

I can not do much more because the old (live cd beta 1 = linux) root password does not work. Could someone please post the password for root.

Below is monitor section from xorg.conf (all seems ok,but defaultdepth 16 is too low):

Section “Monitor”
DisplaySize 330 210
HorizSync 30-62
Identifier “Monitor[0]”
ModelName “LGPHILIPSLCD LCD MONITOR”
Option “DPMS”
VendorName “LPL”
VertRefresh 43-60
UseModes “Modes[0]”
EndSection

Section “Modes”
Identifier “Modes[0]”
Modeline “1280×800″ 83.46 1280 1344 1480 1680 800 801 804 828
Modeline “1280×800″ 69.75 1280 1328 1360 1440 800 803 809 823 +HSync -Vsync
EndSection

Section “Screen”
DefaultDepth 16
SubSection “Display”
Depth 15
Modes “1280×800″
EndSubSection
SubSection “Display”
Depth 16
Modes “1280×800″
EndSubSection
SubSection “Display”
Depth 24
Modes “1280×800″
EndSubSection
SubSection “Display”
Depth 8
Modes “1280×800″
EndSubSection
Device “Device[0]”
Identifier “Screen[0]”
Monitor “Monitor[0]”
EndSection

Section “Device”
BoardName “915 GM”
BusID “0:2:0″
Driver “intel”
Identifier “Device[0]”
VendorName “Intel”
EndSection

Section “ServerLayout”
Identifier “Layout[all]”
InputDevice “Keyboard[0]” “CoreKeyboard”
InputDevice “Mouse[1]” “CorePointer”
Option “Clone” “off”
Option “Xinerama” “off”
Screen “Screen[0]”
EndSection

Section “DRI”
Group “video”
Mode 0660
EndSection