Comments on: Béranger Gives Up on Novell’s SUSE, MSI Cripples SUSE Laptops http://techrights.org/2008/08/04/msi-cripples-suse-laptops/ Free Software Sentry – watching and reporting maneuvers of those threatened by software freedom Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:00:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Roy Schestowitz http://techrights.org/2008/08/04/msi-cripples-suse-laptops/comment-page-1/#comment-18294 Roy Schestowitz Wed, 06 Aug 2008 19:34:22 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/2008/08/04/msi-cripples-suse-laptops/#comment-18294 Long time, no see, 'eet'. Long time, no see, ‘eet’.

]]> By: stevetheFLY http://techrights.org/2008/08/04/msi-cripples-suse-laptops/comment-page-1/#comment-18287 stevetheFLY Wed, 06 Aug 2008 18:09:25 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/2008/08/04/msi-cripples-suse-laptops/#comment-18287 and the fun with Debian continues: My preferred Debian Lenny bug http://www.beranger.org/index.php?page=diary&2008/08/05/19/55/05-my-preferred-debian-lenny-bug My hated Debian Lenny bug http://www.beranger.org/index.php?page=diary&2008/08/05/20/12/51-my-hated-debian-lenny-bug Beranger: "I actually hate the Debian style of networking, simply because I have had a better experience with SuSE and the Red Hat distros at home." Yes, he really likes his new Debian.., ;) <font color="#ff0000"><b>Note</b>: comment has been flagged for arriving from a possible incarnation of a known (eet), pseudonymous, forever-nymshifting, <a href="http://boycottnovell.com/2007/11/22/eet-strommael-gmx-net/" rel="nofollow">abusive</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_troll" rel="nofollow">Internet troll</a> that posts from <a href="http://boycottnovell.com/2007/11/27/eet-proxies/" title="The ‘eet’ Nuisance Has Many Proxies/Indentities" rel="nofollow">open proxies and relays around the world</a>.</font> and the fun with Debian continues:

My preferred Debian Lenny bug
http://www.beranger.org/index.php?page=diary&2008/08/05/19/55/05-my-preferred-debian-lenny-bug

My hated Debian Lenny bug
http://www.beranger.org/index.php?page=diary&2008/08/05/20/12/51-my-hated-debian-lenny-bug

Beranger:
“I actually hate the Debian style of networking, simply because I have had a better experience with SuSE and the Red Hat distros at home.”

Yes, he really likes his new Debian.., ;)

Note: comment has been flagged for arriving from a possible incarnation of a known (eet), pseudonymous, forever-nymshifting, abusive Internet troll that posts from open proxies and relays around the world.

]]> By: Sebastiaan Veld http://techrights.org/2008/08/04/msi-cripples-suse-laptops/comment-page-1/#comment-18161 Sebastiaan Veld Tue, 05 Aug 2008 18:44:31 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/2008/08/04/msi-cripples-suse-laptops/#comment-18161 Well that solved all his problem... not " Now I should have said that Debian Lenny works like a charm on my laptop. Alas, it is not the case yet! At some point, the screen turned blank, then it started to blink in the attempt to... start X?! I assumed that it was about to enter the screensaver, so I moved the mouse, but nothing. I then remembered that I had disabled the screensaver! What was wrong then?! Eventually, after a Ctrl+Alt+Bakspace and a few more attempts, it said (in ncurses) that X failed to start. Still, there were absolutely zero errors in Xorg.0.log! It just ended with this: Fatal server error: lockup Absolutely strange. If this happens again, I am toasted. What is this, Windows 3.1?! Well, hopefully this won't happen again, but what was it?" Well that solved all his problem… not

” Now I should have said that Debian Lenny works like a charm on my laptop. Alas, it is not the case yet!

At some point, the screen turned blank, then it started to blink in the attempt to… start X?! I assumed that it was about to enter the screensaver, so I moved the mouse, but nothing. I then remembered that I had disabled the screensaver! What was wrong then?!

Eventually, after a Ctrl+Alt+Bakspace and a few more attempts, it said (in ncurses) that X failed to start. Still, there were absolutely zero errors in Xorg.0.log! It just ended with this:

Fatal server error:
lockup

Absolutely strange. If this happens again, I am toasted. What is this, Windows 3.1?!

Well, hopefully this won’t happen again, but what was it?”

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