Feature changed by: Tomáš Chvátal (scarabeus_iv) Feature #313000, revision 8 Title: Ability to select graphics driver at boot - openSUSE Distribution: New + openSUSE Distribution: Rejected by Tomáš Chvátal (scarabeus_iv) + reject reason: As described by Richard and Jan this is not doable. Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: pier andre (pier_andreit) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: To have the possibility to select the graphic driver at boot in my opinion is a good idea, if you have nvidia or ati graphic cards, and you want to try the new propietary driver and it doesn't satisfy you, or if you want to try the new nouveau driver, if you have the possibility to select the driver (for example nouveau, nvidia, ati or whatever), you can have easyly a working graphic desktop. Relations: - A simple way to turn off nouveau (feature/id: 310449) Discussion: #1: pier andre (pier_andreit) (2014-06-14 12:43:33) ...:-) nobody consider this a good idea??:-) #2: Richard Brown (rbrownccb) (2014-06-19 17:52:48) The licenses of most of the Proprietary drivers limit our ability to deliver them with the openSUSE distribution Even when they're freely available for download by our users, that doesn't necessarily mean we can include them on the installation media Any for that reason, I dont think this idea is viable #3: Jan Engelhardt (jengelh) (2014-06-25 13:08:13) If your system is to run with nvidia.ko, then install it and blacklist nouveau.ko. I do not see a reason why this choice should be selectable *at every boot*. #4: Mustafa Muhammad (mustafa_muhammad) (2014-07-13 13:23:42) Even if we don't ship proprietary drivers, users can install them (from Packman or the vendor site), this is a good idea and probably easy to implement in grub menu. Sometimes things go wrong and the installed driver becomes unusable, recovery can be much easier with this feature. #5: akash vishwakarma (vish_99) (2015-05-17 14:48:29) Pier, any comments regarding Richards and Jans comment. You need to explain why you need this feature else it would be marked rejected. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/313000