On Sunday 21 September 2008 12:52:38 pm Stefan Dirsch wrote:
Why not start VESA to have some GUI and then ask questions.
Why not boot into failsafe mode after having seen this confusing error message "Login:" in the Linux console?
Which will give you the same login.
Then, running X with configuration from installation (xorg.conf.install),
The average is not aware of CLI commands, and with motd that tells "Have a lot of fun ..." is far from help. Just imagine: You sit in front of screen that you don't know what to do with. The Internet is on the other side, in the GUI that you can't see. Boot back in Windows and all works fine. You really must need openSUSE for some other reason to keep it after this, and there is no many users of that kind. So many will boot in Windows and ask how to remove Linux. I've seen few of them in the forums and mail lists that I follow.
I would expect an average user will notice that resolution, color depth, mouse, keyboard ore touchpad settings are no longer optimal and he will change that by using the appropriate YaST module (which is a frontend to SaX2). I don't see the problem here.
Well this is possible if Failsafe will give you some GUI. All our support is online. You know that VESA is pretty safe bet. If one installed openSUSE than VESA works. While fiddling with xorg.conf.install is easy enough to describe, and I used it to bail out few users in forums, adding few more fonts making xorg.conf.vesa and starting X automatically with that, will make experience much better. If system started text mode login than it knows that X is not there, so what are other problems that I don't know about to run another command that will start VESA first? -- Regards, Rajko --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org