On 11/02/12 14:24, Basil Chupin wrote:

On 11/02/12 03:15, Stephan Kulow wrote:

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Hi,

There have been enough weeks without another release, so I started now with uploading Milestone1 of 12.2 (build151)

The main purpose of this release is to find all the places that need to be changed from 12.1 to 12.2 - the branding already made a great start. Milestone1 sure looks great - and different to 12.1 already at this early stage. Great work, artwork team.

Greetings, Stephan

The first comment is that I tried to download the Live KDE version of 12.2 i686 iso and what I kept getting from the main opensuse repo was the BITTORENT copy which, of course, aborts as I don't use bittorent. I had to go to some mirror in order to be able to download the correct "CD".

The second thing is that when run the Live "CD" it does not boot into a graphics mode but the command line mode. This is caused by the driver not being available for (my) video card (nVidia 7600 GT). Had to add "nomodeset" to the boot line when I rebooted.

Couldn't this "nomodeset" be a hard-coded default parameter so that anyone can boot into a gui instead of being left wondering what went wrong when staring at a black screen with a login prompt?

And the first parts which require changing "12.1" to "12.2" are in the Software Manager and the Repositories: refreshing the repos one gets 12.1 applications so one would not be able to really test any of the 12.2 applications (I haven't tried this as I haven't yet installed 12.2 on the "test bed").

Further to this, I managed to install MS1 on my "test bed" but the same thing about the gui is what I would call a "show stopper". I respectfully suggest that even for the Installation option, the "nonmodeset" be hard coded so that it is applicable not only for the initial installation part but also after the "system needs to be booted to continue" bit. And as I suspected, but did not know, only 12.1 repos are recognised - the one and only 12.2 repo appearing in the list of repositories in Yast is detected as being invalid. I need the nVidia driver to make the system 'work' correctly but this driver cannot be installed even from the nVidia repo because when I try Yast wants to downgrade some 1,304 files; and I cannot compile it because I cannot get the appropriate kernel files. BTW, how do I alter the shape of the default cursor (which now looks like a spear head with two testicles rotating under it)? If this whole exercise was to see and comment on the artwork a lot of time would have been saved by posting some screenshots on picpaste :-) . BC -- Aspire to inspire before you expire. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org