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Re: [opensuse] 12.1 installation failure
- From: Michael Fischer <michael@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2012 04:02:26 -0400
- Message-id: <20120311080226.GG13387@blinkenlights.visv.net>
On Sun, Mar 11, Felix Miata wrote:
Decided to download a LiveCD image, with the notion of possibly checking
machines at the store if the nice salesmen let me... while on that page
I took a look at the release notes link wondering exactly which kernel
version came with 12.1. Noticed the thing about KMS there...
This also reminded me that I'd seen something similar in an unrelated
post on this list.
Ok. This thing has a Radeon HD 6450. I saw something at Phoronix stating
that it worked fine out of the box (ubuntu 10.4 I think), so I was
hopeful, but this bit with nomodeset is rather discouraging - never had to
do that before.
Ah, helpful. xdpyinfo seems to say that I'm running at 1920x1200
while the logfile lists lots of Modelines, that one is listed first,
and I see "h_active: 1920" and "v_active: 1200" so that looks like
confirmation to me.
I should probably post a separate question about various cards.
Considering Radeon 5450, GeForce 210 and GeForce 8600GS in case
this one doesn't work out. In case anyone is reading this and has
experience with those - particularly as an "add on" card overriding
an onboard one, I'd love to hear about it.
Thanks again.
Michael
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On 2012/03/11 03:09 (GMT-0400) Michael Fischer composed:
Graham Anderson wrote:
see if you
can continue with the installation by passing 'nomodeset' as a kernel boot
paramater.
Yes, I discovered this trick a few hours ago and tried it. It worked.
Care to share how you discovered?
Decided to download a LiveCD image, with the notion of possibly checking
machines at the store if the nice salesmen let me... while on that page
I took a look at the release notes link wondering exactly which kernel
version came with 12.1. Noticed the thing about KMS there...
This also reminded me that I'd seen something similar in an unrelated
post on this list.
This does make me a bit concerned that if I need to add it permanently
to grub/menu.lst that I will have poor graphics. I don't need much, but
I do like fairly good resolution on my large monitors.
Since the kernel people decided we need KMS, it's far more common to need it
only during installation than it is after. Video performance is usually quite
bad any time it is needed with popular modern video chips, which is rarely a
problem during installation, and usually is after.
Ok. This thing has a Radeon HD 6450. I saw something at Phoronix stating
that it worked fine out of the box (ubuntu 10.4 I think), so I was
hopeful, but this bit with nomodeset is rather discouraging - never had to
do that before.
Incidentally, how do I find out what resolution I'm actually running?
/var/log/Xorg.0.log
xrandr
krandrtray
xdpyinfo
http://fm.no-ip.com/Auth/dpi-screen-window.html
Ah, helpful. xdpyinfo seems to say that I'm running at 1920x1200
while the logfile lists lots of Modelines, that one is listed first,
and I see "h_active: 1920" and "v_active: 1200" so that looks like
confirmation to me.
I should probably post a separate question about various cards.
Considering Radeon 5450, GeForce 210 and GeForce 8600GS in case
this one doesn't work out. In case anyone is reading this and has
experience with those - particularly as an "add on" card overriding
an onboard one, I'd love to hear about it.
Thanks again.
Michael
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