After numerous requests for information on what to do when replacing a graphics card and booting to end up with a black/blank screen, it's made me wonder: Why on earth isn't SUSE maintaining a list of all the devices attached, performing a check each time it boots, and asking the user if they'd like to configure any new devices that have been added? For a lot of devices it does ask about configuring them once you're at the desktop. The problem with this is that for a graphics card, that's a bit too late. It should take a matter of a couple of seconds, if that, to query all the device IDs attached to the PCI bus. If it finds a new device, it can then look up to see what type of device it is, whether one of the other devices has been removed and if the new card is of the same type, and then, if required, flag it to be configured. When a graphics card is no longer present, but another one is found, offer the choice to either configure it now or later. Where the user puts off configuring the card, put a flag against the card so same choice is presented during the next boot. What's more, in the case of a graphics card, it could then force a boot into run-level 3 so as to prevent the "black screen" problem. That way the user can either reboot the system, or log in at a console, so they can perform the configuration. It would then be a case of adding a small check to sax, or whichever YaST module is used to perform this configuration, so that it checks to see if the flag is present. If the flag is there, once the configuration is complete, remove the flag and the user isn't asked about this again. Regards, David Bolt -- Member of Team Acorn checking nodes at 50 Mnodes/s: http://www.distributed.net/ RISCOS 3.11 | SUSE 10.0 32bit | SUSE 10.0 64bit | openSUSE 10.2 32bit RISCOS 3.6 | SUSE 10.1 32bit | SUSE 10.1 64bit | openSUSE 10.2 64bit TOS 4.02 | SUSE 9.3 32bit | | openSUSE 10.3a1 32bit --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org