Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (1264 mails)

[Roman Bysh <rbtc1@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 09/13/2011 11:04 AM, Larry Finger wrote:
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: [opensuse-testing] A modest proposal: Make nomodeset the 
> default for distributions
> Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2011 08:17:57 +0200
> From: Per Jessen <per@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Organization: Per Jessens personal news-server
> To: opensuse-testing@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> 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.
> >
> > I propose two fixes/workarounds:
> >
> > (1) Make the GRUB option "nomodeset" be the default for all
> > installation media.
>
> +1
>
>
> /Per Jessen, Zürich
Is this a temporary workaround. What about the final release of 12.1?

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Cheers!

Roman

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