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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Hello. I have been using an openSUSE-12.2,
Linux operating system and have gotten along okay with it. But after I
updated to openSUSE 12.3 I found that the lower half of my openSUSE-12.3 login
screen was "messed up." I could only get it to look good by adding
x11failsafe to the Linux kernel command in the GRand Unified Bootloader (GRUB)
Legacy or GRUB 2. My Hewlett-Packard ZE1110, Pavilion notebook computer
uses an S3 Graphics Twister or Twister-K display. Since then I returned to
using an openSUSE-12.2, Linux operating system, but have an interest in getting
openSUSE 12.3 to work well with my computer. I learned that I could obtain
some X-Server-related information from the files /var/log/Xorg.0.log or
Xorg.O.log and /var/log/Xorg.0.log.old or Xorg.O.log.old in openSUSE
Linux.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>In openSUSE 12.2, in which the login screen looked
good, X.org X Server 1.12.3 is used with "X.org Video Driver 12.0" and
Linux kernel 3.4.33-2.24-default. In openSUSE 12.3, in which the lower
half of the login screen was "messed up," I found that "X.org Video Driver"
13.1 was used with Linux kernel 3.7.10-1.1-default. So I guess that
</FONT><FONT size=2 face=Arial>openSUSE 12.3 may have used X.org X Server
1.13.... to match the "13" in "X.org Video Driver 13.1.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Question 1: Is this guess correct?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>A solution about which I have been wondering is to
make openSUSE 12.3 use X.org X Server 1.12.3, which contained X.org Video Driver
12.0, which worked well with my S3 Graphics Twister or Twister-K display
for I suppose a video card of the same designation. However, that
might not work if X.org X Server 1.12.3 cannot work with the Linux kernel
version 3.7.10-1.1-default used in openSUSE 12.3.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Question 2a: So what are the Linux kernel
requirements for X.org X Server 1.12.3?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Question 2b: Will it work with the Linux kernel
3.7.10-1.1-default?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Question 2c: I get the impression that at least
some versions of X.org X Server are general, kernel-version-number-specific, for
example, version 2.4, 2.6, et cetera? Is that true of all of
them?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Other people have suggested I try the nomodeset
kernel parameter to work with my display or video hardware. But
unfortunately that addition by itself did not prevent the lower half
of my login screen from looking "messed up" in openSUSE 12.3.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Question 3: In the GRUB Legacy I tried to use
initrd-3.4.33-2.24-default and vmlinuz-3.4.33-2.24-default in openSUSE 12.3
which uses the Linux kernel version 3.7.10-1.1-default. For some basic
education for me please explain why that did not work. Perhaps it is as
simple as writing that I was trying to boot an operating system written to
use kernel 3.7.10-1.1-default with the Linux kernel 3.4.33-2.24-default, like
mixing "apples" with "oranges," as one saying goes.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Question 4a: How may I force openSUSE 12.3,
which uses Linux kernel version 3.7.10-1.1-default, to work with X.org
Video Driver 12.0, which worked with my computer's display hardware in the Linux
kernel 3.4.33-2.24-default?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Question 4b: Or is that impossible?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Pat</FONT> </DIV></BODY></HTML>