On Mon, 2013-02-18 at 19:41 -0500, Phil Savoie wrote:
On 02/18/2013 12:45 PM, ianseeks wrote:
On Monday 18 Feb 2013 16:40:14 Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
I am installing 12.3 RC1 on a machine that happily runs earlier versions of openSUSE. The graphics is, admittedly, an older ATI Rage XL (MACH64). It runs as a server, and this is on the MB. It is usually only seen during install.
My laptop has a ATI mobility display and i couldn't install 12.1 on it, 12.2/123 installs but i can't watch any BBC iPlayer or youtube that uses flash, the plugin just crashes. I think graphical setups/configs (or something) in 12.x has issues with ATI
The install was a bit of a PITA because, no matter what display I used, I could not get a graphic install to work. I tried setting various resolutions and even 'No KMS' in the initial install screen. The screen would go black, and I could do nothing. No virtual terminals. Nothing. Eventually I had settle for the text install.
The text install went rather okay. Quite impressive. I expected that when I did a text install, perhaps the installed GRUB2 would also be set up to be text based. This seems not to be the case. So, when the system rebooted to do the second part of the install, where things like the root password are set, I just got a blank screen. The second part did not happen.
So I now have a machine where:
* grub2 is installed, but it will not provide a menu. Eventually it does the default and boots, resulting in a graphic login screen - which works - even though grub2 does not manage it's graphics.
* there is no root password, so I cannot do any system configuration. I can log in as a user (made during the first phase of the install) and run KDE.
What I would really like to do is (1) get grub2 to work, perhaps in text mode and (2) set a root password so I can proceed to set things up.
Any suggestions? Especially the root password part.
Yours sincerely,
Roger Oberholtzer
Ramböll RST / Systems
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You could try adding to the kernel line the parameter nomodeset. This works for me when installing Centos on laptops/desktops that have an ATI video card.
I added nomodeset when doing the install, but it still fails after the initial screen. I see that XOrg/icewm are running. But the display is black. The problem seems not to be the kernel. When that eventually starts I get a graphic login. The problem is that grub2 does not show. The monitor prints that the resolution is not supported and the screen is black. I have tried all resolutions that I know work with two different monitors. It is more like grub2 either ignores these or is just doing something wrong. During install, in a VT, I see this: Loading extension GLX Error loading MTTR: type=1 Invalid argument (22) Perhaps this is making X confused? X does not exit, and there are no errors in /var/log. Only this message on a VT. Is it possible to get grub2 to do a fully text thing? I looked in the config file, but there was no real info. There were descriptions of the various options - but not a mention of other possible values. Which is usually a good idea in such a critical configuration files. Or, is it possible to use grub instead?
HTH,
Phil
Yours sincerely, Roger Oberholtzer Ramböll RST / Systems Office: Int +46 10-615 60 20 Mobile: Int +46 70-815 1696 roger.oberholtzer@ramboll.se ________________________________________ Ramböll Sverige AB Krukmakargatan 21 P.O. Box 17009 SE-104 62 Stockholm, Sweden www.rambollrst.se -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org