OpenSUSE Install :: ATI Driver - Boot But X Windows Crashes When Open Any Application?
Apr 4, 2011
I am new to opensuse, having migrated from Ubuntu. I have had some difficulty with power management on Ubuntu so i decided to install opensuse with kde as i heard it was good for laptops. I have had lots of trouble getting opensuse 11.4 to boot properly and to run without freezing.
I have trawled the forums and bugzilla and the documentation, e.g. SDB:ATI - openSUSE and SDB:Configuring graphics cards - openSUSE. Consequently i am now able to boot (normally), however whenever i open any application, e.g. Dolphin file manager, Firefox, etc, the tab starts to load (little circle starts spinning on the tab), and then it freezes.
At this point I can exit X Windows and enter the text mode. I have repeated this with the FGLRX and Radeon drivers running. This is always repeatable. I can also boot into level 3 and do things there.
My computer details are:
HP Pavilion dv6 3032TX
Processor - Intel i7 720 QM
Ram - 6GB
GPU - ATI Mobility Radeon 5650
Harddrive - 640GB 5400rpm
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What i have tried so far:
1. First 4 steps on SDB:Configuring graphics cards - openSUSE
2. Install and run FGLRX
Note that i cannot failsafe boot - it never boots into X Windows and just hangs. I really do like the look and feel of opensuse and would love to use it, but at this point my only option is to try another distro.
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I get this output:
alienware:/opt/cxoffice/bin # ./cxinstaller Traceback (most recent call last): File "./cxinstaller", line 85, in <module> import gtk ImportError: No module named gtk
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So how do I get the RAID drivers installed in SUSE and then mount the drive so it can be browsed/modified from Dolphin? I would also like to be able to browse/change this drive from other computers on my home network through samba, just like with WinXP.
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I am attempting a Network installation of openSuse 11.3 on an old desktop which has IBM Boot Manager so that I can boot to one of three OSs, openSuse being the third. Sadly the installation of openSuse fails before the CD initial boot has finished. Looking at the text log of the starting process the problem appears to be a driver and the last line of text where it stalls refers to eata driver.
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Code: kalle@hoppers:~> grep h264enc /var/log/zypp/history 2011-01-15 20:11:53|install|h264enc|9.2.4-0.pm.1.1|noarch|root@hoppers|Packman|c5bd1d534726472929134e5acc8f66492c52c51b 2011-01-20 22:06:20|remove |h264enc|9.2.4-0.pm.1.1|noarch|root@hoppers The only way of solving this was moving MPlayers config, but that did not help either.
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just click the [Computer] button at the left-bottom corner of the GNome desktop, the menu will shown, now press the printscreen button [PrtSc], nothing happen. no screenshot was made.or open any application , then click the menu like [file], let the menu list shown, then press [PrtSc] button, same thing, nothing happen.
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Most of the time when I install XEN on openSUSE 11.1 and SLES 11, the XEN kernel starts in a terminal rather than with X Windows. I have installed XEN during initial installation and with Yast after installation, both directly on the hardware and in Hyper-V. Does anyone know why this occurs?I don't have this problem with SLES 10. I am too frustrated to restart all the systems to provide exact details and hope this will be enough information. It is possible that it is related to the degree to which I performed online updates on the systems before installing XEN.
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Basically I can get into linux no problem but can't fix the windows partition. I wouldn't bother only college are insisting on a software which only runs on windows ArcGIS. Any suggestions to possible solutions or is it out to buy a new laptop?
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As you can understand i am a pretty novice linux user i just used ubuntu for some time....Can you explain me how i can boot from windows7 and use windows7........You may laugh but i cannot even boot my windows7 and cannot use them...in opensuse when i look at the disk's contents i can see computer retains all the data but i cannot boot windows7
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Delete windows partion /dev/sda2 (261.49GB) This is my main partition C: (NTFS) (Don't want to delete this Resize impossible due to inconsistent fs. Try checking fs under windows. Delete windows partition /dev/sda3 (16.31GB)This is my recovery partition.(NTFS) I also don't want to delete this. Resize impossible due to inconsistent fs. Try checking fs under windows. Delete partition /dev/sda4 (103.34MB) HP tools (FAT32) (Not sure about this, but would rather keep it.
Create swap volume /dev/sda1 (2.01GB) Create root volume /dev/sda2 (20GB with ext4) create volume /dev/sda3 (276.08GB for /home)
I also pressed created partition and clicked on the unallocated space but I got an error telling me that I either didn't have enough space or hadn't selected enough partitions. (The unallocated space was 20GB)
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