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http://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1110041
http://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1110041#c14
--- Comment #14 from Felix Miata
In my view this is not so much about adding and removing a boot option but more about helping to work around video driver problems.
Why does it seem so common for users to be unable to install without disabling KMS? If this could be answered with a good solution, then $SUBJECT would be functionally moot.
And here nomodeset is just an easy band-aid to get the installation done. What's missing is some guidance after that to help the user to configure the graphics card more or less optimally. Maybe simply a pointer to some landing page on opensuse.org.
Steffen seems to embrace my macro/meta thought processes leading to filing this. It seems as though every user of: 1-Optimus of any age 2-recent AMD gfx 3-NVidia gfx, mostly recent, but not necessarily seems to be unable to install without using nomodeset (or textmode). But nomodeset is incompatible with the distribution as installed, that is, software entirely from openSUSE OSS and Non-OSS repos, software that has come through the QA and release processes. Users who do not in fact have hardware that is too new to be supported by the software ought to be able to enjoy a reasonably usable installation result, one that uses the FOSS video drivers to run X. That isn't happening when nomodeset is on the installer cmdline, and that is bad for the distribution as well as the users. The mailing list and forum assistants seem to be presuming in virtually every case that non-FOSS drivers are supposed to follow completion of initial installation. With Optimus this may be true, if Bumblebee won't work without a proprietary NVidia component, but it shouldn't be otherwise. Even though the bandaid worked to get the installation "completed", this ultimately means KMS must not be defeated via cmdline - the FOSS drivers provided by the distribution depend on KMS. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.