Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (1264 mails)

["Duncan Mac-Vicar P." <dmacvicar@xxxxxxx>]

On 09/13/2011 03:01 AM, Larry Finger wrote:
> Although the KMS video drivers have improved a lot, there are still a 
> lot of nVidia adapters for which nouveau fails to provide any useful 
> graphics screens. For new users, the failure to boot to a meaningful 
> display is frustrating. The problem used to affect only persons that 
> had implemented the proprietary closed-source drivers, and their 
> graphics failed when the kernel changed. They could be warned in 
> advance because a lot of them came to the forums for help in getting 
> the propriety driver installed. With KMS, people are having trouble 
> with their initial look at an openSUSE version. I expect many decide 
> that openSUSE is flawed and move on to other distros.

The nouveau problems (I also suffered from this black screens) are SUSE 
specific. I tried Fedora Alpha and it works fine on my problematic 
machines. So I would put the work on having a more consistent 
nouveau/dri/kernel stack that works, even if this means to keep track 
what patches and versions are other distributions combining.

It may be worth to explore a more failsafe way for installation, yes.

Duncan

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