Black Screen For All Applications on OpenSuse on Thinkpad T40
Hi,
After years away from Linux I decided to jump back in. I burned an Open Suse iso and used it to install on an old Thinkpad T40, selecting Gnome as the desktop. The installation completed without any issues and I am able to log in and see the desktop and associated menus. However when I launch an application, I'm just presented with a blank, black screen where the application graphic should be. This seems to be true for all applications, be they games, network settings etc. On the desktop I see the outlines of where the applications should be and the windows have the correct labels so obviously they are running, but there is no graphics at all. I have no idea how to troubleshoot this. Can anyone point me in the right direction? Thanks. -ts1971 |
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top Specs look kinda low for Open suse with gnome desktop to me http://www.beezmo.com/ThinkPadR40Dir...ifications.htm OpenSuse requirements: Pentium* III 500 MHz or higher processor (Pentium 4 2.4 GHz or higher or any AMD64 or Intel* EM64T processor recommended) Main memory: 512 MB physical RAM (1 GB recommended) I would have installed Fluxbox or Icewm instead with those R40 specs instead of Gnome, (if I ran a rpm distro that is). I run Debian based distros and Puppy mostly instead. My IBM A22M (older model than yours) specs that I am posting with now with browser (3 tabs open) and terminal open is Code:
System: Host: Biker Kernel: 3.2.9-antix.1-486-smp i686 (32 bit) |
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