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? -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/