SilvrT Posted October 5, 2013 #1 Posted October 5, 2013 Well, I was all "gung-ho" on OpenSuSe 12.3 and it took me some fiddling to get various things working BUT .... When I fired it up tonight, something was wrong. No keyboard. No mouse. No printer. No ability to do anything. Seems maybe the last "update" or maybe I should say "software install" totally screwed things up. It was all working fine when I shut her down last night. back to the drawing board.... Don't nobody fool themselves .... Linux distro's just ain't what they used to be and are quite prone to failure. If you get a good one, don't change it. I believe the "developers" of the various flavors are all out there to better each other and in doing so, are releasing "buggy" versions .... hmmmmmmm... isn't that what Mr. Gates does?
LilBeaver Posted October 5, 2013 #2 Posted October 5, 2013 cannot do anything? What does that mean... Can you not even open up a virtual console? Boot to rescue mode? Mix your drinks? Boot to single user mode? Do you have the keyboard during and immediately after POST? One of my major complaints about anything beyond SuSe 11 is the fact that just about any kernel update (or some of the non-major updates, for that matter, seem to 'break' the system [as you found]. Sometimes it is a simple reload of some drivers or adjusting the proper services to start when the machine starts and a few times it has been as serious as SuSe 'misplacing' my RAID array or randomly reorganizing various partitions, randomly assigning labels to the various network cards, etc etc. Anyway, sorry to hear about your troubles. Probing the logs a bit may produce some useful information to fixing your problem... or just bust out the ole hammer and let-r-rip...
SilvrT Posted October 5, 2013 Author #3 Posted October 5, 2013 cannot do anything? What does that mean... Can you not even open up a virtual console? Boot to rescue mode? Mix your drinks? Boot to single user mode? Do you have the keyboard during and immediately after POST? One of my major complaints about anything beyond SuSe 11 is the fact that just about any kernel update (or some of the non-major updates, for that matter, seem to 'break' the system [as you found]. Sometimes it is a simple reload of some drivers or adjusting the proper services to start when the machine starts and a few times it has been as serious as SuSe 'misplacing' my RAID array or randomly reorganizing various partitions, randomly assigning labels to the various network cards, etc etc. Anyway, sorry to hear about your troubles. Probing the logs a bit may produce some useful information to fixing your problem... or just bust out the ole hammer and let-r-rip... Can't say about the POST ... just that once SuSe was loaded, I had no input devices. busting out the hammer is pretty much what I'll be doing. Can't be bothered trying to diagnose/repair. Much easier to just re-install; however, this time it will be something other than SuSe ... because you're right ... seems beyond 11 it wasn't all that great (as I have read). Thought the latest distro would have rectified things. That said, it also could have been my fault for installing non-SuSe verified software yet all the info I read seemed to indicate things would work fine. What it was ... the SuSe's installed video app (K something or another) wouldn't play my .MOV files so I found something that would (forgot what it's called now). oh well ... guess that's why I am a computer geek of sorts.
LilBeaver Posted October 5, 2013 #4 Posted October 5, 2013 Can't say about the POST ... just that once SuSe was loaded, I had no input devices. busting out the hammer is pretty much what I'll be doing. Can't be bothered trying to diagnose/repair. Much easier to just re-install; however, this time it will be something other than SuSe ... because you're right ... seems beyond 11 it wasn't all that great (as I have read). Thought the latest distro would have rectified things. That said, it also could have been my fault for installing non-SuSe verified software yet all the info I read seemed to indicate things would work fine. What it was ... the SuSe's installed video app (K something or another) wouldn't play my .MOV files so I found something that would (forgot what it's called now). oh well ... guess that's why I am a computer geek of sorts. Gotcha. I would have been awfully surprised if your box suddenly puked all of your peripherals at the same time... Too bad to hear that SuSe turned out to be this way for you. It would be far too easy if there was an OS that just worked (quiet you Mac people ).
SilvrT Posted October 5, 2013 Author #5 Posted October 5, 2013 Now, I've been in this computer biz since 1987 and I've encountered a lot of weird chit but this is a new one on me... I can boot the computer and get into the BIOS ... keyboard works fine. I can exit that and get the system boot device selection screen ... keyboard works in that. I can boot into GRUB boot loader ... keyboard works in that. I boot into SuSe and ... no keyboard, no mouse. I can boot into a Ubuntu live boot CD ... same thing, no keyboard, no mouse. But here I am in Windows, no problem at all! Any ideas?
SilvrT Posted October 5, 2013 Author #7 Posted October 5, 2013 Well, don't know what changed but here I am in a Ubuntu 12. live cd session and keyboard and mouse are working although I've booted into this CD several times without either working. Not a fan of the Ubuntu desktop in this version tho.
LilBeaver Posted October 5, 2013 #8 Posted October 5, 2013 It may be worth hopping in the BIOS and checking for the 'PS/2 compatibility mode' setting for your peripherals and the 'serial port' setting [just disable that sucker for now as if it is requesting an IRQ for something that is not there, it may be conflicting with your USB devices]. that is really strange that this is happening on the live disk -- which tells me that SuSe may have changed some settings [which I have personally witnessed happen on my machine(s) numerous times even though it should not be able to]... Just a few shots in the dark here. PS I will be away from a computer for the next ~30 hours but when I have access again, I will let you know if I think of anything else. ugh, Ubuntu... **Written from my FUNCTIONING keyboard within SL 6.4 **
SilvrT Posted October 5, 2013 Author #9 Posted October 5, 2013 Loaded Linux Mint 15 Mate 32bit ... everything works! mouse, keyboard, both printers (which I had trouble getting to work in SuSe) , the scanner .... plays the MOV files... awesome! :dancefool:
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