On 12/07/2014 04:19 PM, Felix Miata wrote:
13.1 is selected over 13.2 due, among other reasons, to anticipated longer support via Evergreen. Its owner is a longstanding openSUSE user who is nearly blind, and highly appreciates minimal upgrade frequency.
Installation attempts, with or without nomodeset on cmdline, halted early, following: ... Initializing virtual console Found a Linux console terminal on /dev/console (160 columns x 64 lines).
I found https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/495206-openSUSE13-1-x86_64-cannot... that seems to have been on point but without resolution. I without success looked for something on point in Bugzilla and relnotes.
So I put a Radeon PCIe card in it and did a "Minimal X" installation. That installation succeeded to get a working X. Then I removed the PCIe card and tried again. That produced segfault initializing graphical.target.
I did zypper up except for (locked) kernel, then installed kernel-desktop-3.12.32 from home:/mkubecek:/evergreen-13.1/openSUSE_13.1/. Attempting to boot 3.12.32 stops at "[ 1.7yada] fb: switching to radeondrmfb from VESA VGA". Updates didn't improve 3.11.4.
This is a new motherboard/CPU/RAM/HD. I tried booting the old HD's 12.2. 3.4.11 boots, and KDE4 runs in FBDEV. 11.3's 2.6.34 boots, and KDE3 runs in FBDEV. Last, I installed 13.2 minimal X, and it runs IceWM using radeon driver.
I perused: https://en.opensuse.org/AMD https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Radeon https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:AMD_fglrx But I spotted no indication whether this video configuration requires a proprietary driver to work in 13.1.
Any suggestions how to make 13.1 work acceptably?
Felix, Take a look at: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=887629 There may be some really really bad news. (look at the part regarding kernels >= 3.15) In a nutshell, there are some radeon drivers where support for the card is either totally broken, or was intentionally removed. It pisses me off. There seems to be no concern for backwards compatibility for boxes 4-5 years old. If the kernel being installed is greater than 3.15 and the graphics card is a radeon card, there may be no way to get a graphics display -- PERIOD. I tried a kotd which was 3.17 and hit this issue on 13.1. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org