On Monday 12 September 2011 20:01:07 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.
I propose two fixes/workarounds:
(1) Make the GRUB option "nomodeset" be the default for all installation media.
As far as I've read, recent versions of the nouveau X driver will refuse to load if you don't have kms in the nouveau kernel module, so without that you fall back to either the vesa driver or the nv driver, both of which are rather boring defaults. If it's needed, I'd suggest having it as a failsafe boot option, not a default Anders -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org