On Sun, Mar 11, Graham Anderson wrote:
On Saturday 10 Mar 2012 17:41:15 Michael Fischer wrote:
From what you describe here with the wrapping it sure sounds like an issue with graphics drivers, the first thing to try would probably be to see if you can continue with the installation by passing 'nomodeset' as a kernel boot paramater.
To do this, enter the string "nomodeset", without quotes, into the field below the menu options at the first installation choice screen that appears when you boot from your media. Then select the Install option and see if the graphics behave better.
Yes, I discovered this trick a few hours ago and tried it. It worked. This does make me a bit concerned that if I need to add it permanently to grub/menu.lst that I will have poor graphics. I don't need much, but I do like fairly good resolution on my large monitors. Incidentally, how do I find out what resolution I'm actually running? These things keep changing with different versions. Currently running 11.4 with the target monitor. Also just discovered that this thing has the Dell fake raid running. Need to decide what to do about that.... Thanks for the tip. Michael -- Michael Fischer michael@visv.net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org