I am spawning a new thread because I have seen similar problem, that Mahagsagar reports, with other distros as well.
On Tuesday 08 Dec 2009, म.हा.सा.ग.र wrote: > > Meaning machine is rendered non-responsive to any key combination. > So only choice is to hardboot it by pressing on-off switch. > > Sometimes this has to be done 2-3 times before X can correctly get > started and machine does not give that stare or gaze to the user. I am also experiencing this with openSUSE 11.2 on my sister's laptop (a 3.5 yrs old HP Pavilion with AMD Athlon and ATI XPress 200M) I have not done much debugging but I suspect this has to do with openSUSE's strategy of generting the config (aka xorg.conf) on the fly each time the system is booted. On a newer laptop (Aspire 5542): The only distro that works out of the box is openSUSE 11.2 (ATI Radeon HD 4200). The ATI BLOB driver installed after 3 attempts; compiz and KDE4 3D effects work with the prop. driver. Ubuntu 9.10, Mandriva 2010 install but fail to bring up the GDM and fall back to CLI login. "startx" from CLI ends up in black screen with locked keyboard. Fedora 12 Live after booting and loading up shows a black screen; keyboard is locked - power off is the only solution to recover. In openSUSE, I have been able to solve the problem partially by using sax2 (from CLI) to generate a xorg.conf but have no clue on other distros. Would appreciate pointers by Ubuntu/Fedora/Mandriva users. -- Arun Khan _______________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List