On Monday, September 12, 2011 06:42:55 PM Larry Finger wrote:
On 09/12/2011 08:25 PM, Anders Johansson wrote:
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
Yes, vesa and nv are boring, but they do work. In fact, my main machine uses nv and has never run anything else other than nouveau by mistake when I forgot the nomodeset option.
Failsafe does invoke "nomodeset", but the failsafe kernel is not one of the boot options for the KDE Live CD. Yes, you can get vesa from F3, but that takes quite a bit of sophistication on the user's part to get there. I want something that a refugee from Windows, or one of their users that is curious about Linux can use to always get a positive result.
Larry It sounds reasonable then, to have a failsafe boot on the Live media for both Live Dekstop and probably the Installer. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org