Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (393 mails)

[Simon Strandman <simon.strandman@xxxxxxxxx>]

David Bolt skrev:
> After numerous requests for information on what to do when replacing a
> graphics card and booting to end up with a black/blank screen, it's made
> me wonder:
>
> Why on earth isn't SUSE maintaining a list of all the devices attached,
> performing a check each time it boots, and asking the user if they'd
> like to configure any new devices that have been added? For a lot of
> devices it does ask about configuring them once you're at the desktop.
> The problem with this is that for a graphics card, that's a bit too
> late.
>
>   

Another option would be to have some kind of failsafe xserver, that runs 
with the vesa driver
in 800x600. This could be usefull for other cases as well like if a 
kernel update broke the nvidia
driver

> It should take a matter of a couple of seconds, if that, to query all
> the device IDs attached to the PCI bus. If it finds a new device, it can
> then look up to see what type of device it is, whether one of the other
> devices has been removed and if the new card is of the same type, and
> then, if required, flag it to be configured.
>
> When a graphics card is no longer present, but another one is found,
> offer the choice to either configure it now or later. Where the user
> puts off configuring the card, put a flag against the card so same
> choice is presented during the next boot. What's more, in the case of a
> graphics card, it could then force a boot into run-level 3 so as to
> prevent the "black screen" problem. That way the user can either reboot
> the system, or log in at a console, so they can perform the
> configuration.
>
> It would then be a case of adding a small check to sax, or whichever
> YaST module is used to perform this configuration, so that it checks to
> see if the flag is present. If the flag is there, once the configuration
> is complete, remove the flag and the user isn't asked about this again.
>
>
> Regards,
>         David Bolt
>
>   

Simon
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