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Re: [opensuse-factory] A modest proposal: Make nomodeset the default for distributions
On Tuesday, September 13, 2011 01:12:09 AM Stefan Seyfried wrote:
Am Mon, 12 Sep 2011 20:01:07 -0500

schrieb Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:
(1) Make the GRUB option "nomodeset" be the default for all installation
media. There will be very little impact on the NET install CD or the DVD
install disks. The lower graphics performance for the Live CDs will be a
small penalty to pay

You will get no X at all on intel chipsets IIRC.
Punishing vendors who support linux for vendors who do not support linux
seems lik a stupid thing to do.

Just tell people to not buy NVidia?

No NVidia hardware around here and no problems *since years*.
Thats why there is a failsafe option, and the normal one.
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