http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=610424
http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=610424#c10
--- Comment #10 from Stefan Dirsch
A mostly black screen with a few pixels in the middle that aren't black. I think I wasn't clear, it's not a black _text_ screen with a cursor, but a black graphic screen with a bunch of pixels as mouse pointer.
That doesn't make it any better. Not sure why you call this "After an installation that seems to work fine".
Fact of life is they'd rather don't. I do, but I'm old school, I wouldn't run away screaming from SUSE and I know the solution now. But me and few others like me aren't enough, we need more users, we shouldn't scare them away with black screens and hacks and work-arounds :-) Maybe after we get them hooked on SUSE.
Why not provide release notes for the LiveCD, which they can read at the same time they download the image?
It's enough if Ubuntu doesn't use KMS yet, then it's "fixed". Is KMS really ready for production? Can we make a blacklist of video cards that shouldn't use mode setting?
I'm pretty sure current Ubuntu version do already use KMS. I would have expected openSUSE were the last Linux distribution to switch to KMS.
Bugs that show up right after installation, before any updates can be applied aren't cool at all. Especially bugs that show a black screen, very discouraging for any new users.
No objections. I'm going to propose on opensuse-factory@opensuse.org to provide release notes for openSUSE LiveCDs. Let's see what the outcome is. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.