https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=781700 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=781700#c0 Summary: openSUSE 12.2 Release Notes suggest to modify /boot/grub/menu.lst to add nomodeset kernel load option Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 12.2 Version: Final Platform: All OS/Version: openSUSE 12.2 Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Documentation AssignedTo: ke@suse.com ReportedBy: jmcdaniel3@austin.rr.com QAContact: ke@suse.com Found By: --- Blocker: --- User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:15.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/15.0 The openSUSE Release Notes suggest to edit the /boot/grub/menu.lst file add the nomodeset kernel load option: "With openSUSE 11.3 we switched to KMS (Kernel Mode Setting) for Intel, ATI and NVIDIA graphics, which now is our default. If you encounter problems with the KMS driver support (intel, radeon, nouveau), disable KMS by adding nomodeset to the kernel boot command line. To set this permanently, add it to the kernel command line in /boot/grub/menu.lst. This option makes sure the appropriate kernel module (intel, radeon, nouveau) is loaded with modeset=0 in initrd, i.e. KMS is disabled." This situation was brought to my attention by Tyler_K in the openSUSE forums. See link below: http://forums.opensuse.org/english/get-technical-help-here/install-boot-logi... Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. open YaST 2. Goto Miscellaneous / Release Notes 3. Got the section that starts with: 5. Technical 5.1. Initializing Graphics with KMS (Kernel Mode Setting) Actual Results: Specifies you should modify the menu.lst file to add the nomodeset command. Expected Results: Specify you should modify the /etc/default/grub file to add the nomodeset command. I might suggest you use a line like the following which might make more sense. With openSUSE 11.3 we switched to KMS (Kernel Mode Setting) for Intel, ATI and NVIDIA graphics, which now is our default. If you encounter problems with the KMS driver support (intel, radeon, nouveau), disable KMS by adding nomodeset to the kernel boot command line. To set this permanently using Grub 2, the default boot loader, add it to the GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT kernel default load options line in your /etc/default/grub text file as root and running the terminal command "sudo /usr/sbin/grub2-mkconfig --output=/boot/grub2/grub.cfg" for the changes to take effect. Else, for Grub Legacy, add it to the kernel command line in /boot/grub/menu.lst, also done as root. This option makes sure the appropriate kernel module (intel, radeon, nouveau) is loaded with modeset=0 in initrd, i.e. KMS is disabled. Thank You, James D. McDaniel -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.