http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=590044 http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=590044#c0 Summary: installation misguesses the serviceability of the "NV" video driver Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE.org Version: unspecified Platform: x86-64 OS/Version: openSUSE 11.2 Status: NEW Severity: Critical Priority: P5 - None Component: System Imaging AssignedTo: ms@novell.com ReportedBy: bkorb@gnu.org QAContact: adrian@novell.com Found By: --- Blocker: --- User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.4) Gecko/20091016 SUSE/3.5.4-1.1.2 Firefox/3.5.4 I have a video card that announces itself as: G96 [GeForce 9400 GT] When installing the latest openSuSE/Debian/Red Hat, I get the black screen of death upon booting into run level 5. The keyboard is inoperable, so I have to cycle power to get out of the situation. Obviously, this is not a SuSE issue, but the nv driver issue. What _is_ a SuSE issue is that the installation code can verify that the video driver is working correctly before making a permanent installation. You can well imagine how much work it takes to reboot into run level 3 and then try to divine what went wrong. There are _no_ error messages, you know. The driver thinks everything is fine and dandy. It is just that nobody ever types anything in. Nothing wrong with that. Eventually after a couple of re-installs and a couple of dozen reboots, I finally got the nvidia driver downloaded and the configuration hand merged from one of the working OS images I had on my disk. I think the process was too hard. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Buy an nVidia GeForce 9400 GT card 2. Install it 3. Install 11.2 Actual Results: Black screen and non-responsive keyboard. Expected Results: Working installation. -- 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.