My problem is next:

I have installed OpenSuse 11.3 . System doesn't boot in NORMAL mode, system boots only in Fail-safe mode. In NORMAL mode i have kernel panic (may be i am wrong, but Caps Lock + Scroll Lock are blinking synchronously during NORMAL boot).



ATI Radeon HD 3650 AGP figured on thread Subject because i am sure that the problem is in this video card.



Okey, now system configuration:

1. Motherboard: Intel 845D(has on board AC'97 sound, but this sound is disabled in BIOS currently)

2. CPU:Intel Celeron 1.7 GHz

3. Main memory: 1,5 GB DDR 266MHz

4. Video card: PowerColor ATI Radeon HD 3650 AGP (512 MB, 64 bit)

5. Sound card: CMI8738

6. Hard drive1: SATAII Western Digital 500GB 32MB cache(connected to IDE slot on motherboard through SATAII-IDE converter. This converter is separate module inserted into IDE slot on motherboard)

7. Hard drive2: IDE Seagate 40 GB

8. DVD-RW: IDE LG DVD-RW device(without converter)

9. Network card: D-Link DFE-520TX 10&100Mbps Fast Ethernet PCI Adapter



I have installed OpenSuse 11.3 from DVD burned from ISO openSUSE-11.3-DVD-i586.iso, downloaded from file sharing site.



Now additional info:

zigo@linux-n7ip:~> /sbin/lspci

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82845 845 [Brookdale] Chipset Host Bridge (rev 04)

00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82845 845 [Brookdale] Chipset AGP Bridge (rev 04)

00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 05)

00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801BA ISA Bridge (LPC) (rev 05)

00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801BA IDE U100 Controller (rev 05)

00:1f.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801BA/BAM USB Controller #1 (rev 05)

00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801BA/BAM SMBus Controller (rev 05)

00:1f.4 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801BA/BAM USB Controller #1 (rev 05)

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Mobility Radeon HD 3600 Series

02:0c.0 Multimedia audio controller: C-Media Electronics Inc CM8738 (rev 10)

02:0f.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6105/VT6106S [Rhine-III] (rev 8b)





zigo@linux-n7ip:~> uname -r

2.6.34-12-default



output of dmesg: http://myfhost.ucoz.com/dmesg_output.txt

/var/log/messages: http://myfhost.ucoz.com/var_log_messages.txt

/var/log/syslog: http://myfhost.ucoz.com/var_log_syslog.txt

/var/log/Xorg.0.log: http://myfhost.ucoz.com/var_log_Xorg.0.log.txt

Why are you so sure that the video card is generating the kernel panic? Have you tried with another video card?

Because 2 weeks ago i have installed ATI Proprietary driver for this card and system successfully boot in NORMAL mode without any kernel panic. You may ask me, "What the problem, install this driver again and have fun!". The problem is that when I install this driver and boot in NORMAL mode video sub system works very slowly. For example one mouse scroll in Internet browser takes 2 seconds to redraw the window. It is not only browser window problem. It refers to all windows. I even can see the wave from up to down on the screen when any window redraws. Very poor performance of 2D video. So , installation of this driver is not the solution.

In the Fail-safe mode 2D video performance is not so cool as at Windows XP but is much more better than in NORMAL boot with proprietary driver installed.

Now I have clean installation of system without any drivers installed over distributive. I am waiting for your suggestions.


I also determined that system will have kernel panic without boot option nomodeset. But windows redraw very slowly still.

That's weird. Does OpenSuSE itself provide you with the proprietary driver to download or do you download it from official ATIs website?
I ask you this as I had a similar problem with a wireless card in Ubuntu. The proprietary driver Ubuntu recommended me didn't work at all and installing the one from Broadcom's website seemed to fix it.

Here's ATIs download page just in case:

http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/Pages/index.aspx