Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (533 mails)

[Stefan Dirsch <sndirsch@xxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 01:55:35PM +0200, Oddball wrote:
> Oddball schreef:
> > dale ritchey schreef:
> >   
> > > On 04/09/2010 02:42 PM, Oddball wrote:
> > >   
> > >     
> > > > dale ritchey schreef:
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> > > >     
> > > >       
> > > > > On 04/09/2010 02:06 PM, Oddball wrote:
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> > > > >         
> > > > > > I updated via the M4 netiso to find wrong kernelnumber in menu.lst:
> > > > > > ~33-5, instead of ~33-6 (corrected this so the os booted)
> > > > > > Booted until X, which still was not present...
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Is there any chance that M5 will have an X?
> > > > > >
> > > > > >   
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> > > > > >           
> > > > > I did a clean install with the latest kde iso I still had to put
> > > > > nomodeset in the command line at boot for the second stage install to 
> > > > > work
> > > > > but other than that milestone 5 is working pretty good
> > > > >
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> > > > >         
> > > > you confuse me...M5 is already out? ..i do only find the 0515...which is 
> > > > M4?
> > > >
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> > > >       
> > > Its not in the distribution but factory iso's have them
> > > http://download.opensuse.org/factory/iso/
> > >
> > >   
> > >     
> > Ah, thnx...trying 0553 now..
> >
> >   
> Updating changed 84 pkgs..
> No Xserver...

Install latest X.Org packages from X11:XOrg repo:

zypper ar \
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/X11:/XOrg/openSUSE_Factory/ X11:XOrg
zypper mr -p 90 X11:XOrg
zypper mr -r X11:XOrg
zypper dup -r X11:XOrg

> Save Bootloadersettings still 'hangs' installation.
> Had to reboot with ctrl+alt+del..old menu list still worked.
> Boot until x, nomodeset login tty1 

You need to set NO_KMS_IN_INITRD="yes" and run mkinitrd afterwards. Also add
your VGA Device ID to /etc/X11/kms-blacklist.local. Yes, we need to document
this better. See Bug #595569.

> startx notworking, 

Any more details like /var/log/Xorg.0.log? Which graphics hardware are you
using?

> sax2 not able to correct x. I miss sax2...

It still exists, but apparently it's no longer installed by default.

Best regards,
Stefan

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