On 09/13/2011 03:01 AM, 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.
The nouveau problems (I also suffered from this black screens) are SUSE specific. I tried Fedora Alpha and it works fine on my problematic machines. So I would put the work on having a more consistent nouveau/dri/kernel stack that works, even if this means to keep track what patches and versions are other distributions combining. It may be worth to explore a more failsafe way for installation, yes. Duncan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org