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Re: [opensuse-factory] A modest proposal: Make nomodeset the default for distributions
- From: Felix Miata <mrmazda@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2011 09:47:20 -0400
- Message-id: <4E6F5EE8.1090806@earthlink.net>
On 2011/09/13 11:45 (GMT+0200) Duncan Mac-Vicar P. composed:
This may have to do with Factory retaining the same antique 1.9.3 Xorg version that was in the 11.4 release, and dates back to synergy with 2.6.37 and older kernels. Much in kernel and DRM has evolved since 1.9.3 was current, so Nouveau trouble now using 3.0 & 3.1 kernels is no surprise to me.
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The nouveau problems (I also suffered from this black screens) are SUSE
specific.
This may have to do with Factory retaining the same antique 1.9.3 Xorg version that was in the 11.4 release, and dates back to synergy with 2.6.37 and older kernels. Much in kernel and DRM has evolved since 1.9.3 was current, so Nouveau trouble now using 3.0 & 3.1 kernels is no surprise to me.
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words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation)
Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks!
Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/
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