On Sun, Mar 11, Felix Miata wrote:
On 2012/03/11 03:09 (GMT-0400) Michael Fischer composed:
Graham Anderson wrote:
see if you can continue with the installation by passing 'nomodeset' as a kernel boot paramater.
Yes, I discovered this trick a few hours ago and tried it. It worked.
Care to share how you discovered?
Decided to download a LiveCD image, with the notion of possibly checking machines at the store if the nice salesmen let me... while on that page I took a look at the release notes link wondering exactly which kernel version came with 12.1. Noticed the thing about KMS there... This also reminded me that I'd seen something similar in an unrelated post on this list.
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.
Since the kernel people decided we need KMS, it's far more common to need it only during installation than it is after. Video performance is usually quite bad any time it is needed with popular modern video chips, which is rarely a problem during installation, and usually is after.
Ok. This thing has a Radeon HD 6450. I saw something at Phoronix stating that it worked fine out of the box (ubuntu 10.4 I think), so I was hopeful, but this bit with nomodeset is rather discouraging - never had to do that before.
Incidentally, how do I find out what resolution I'm actually running?
/var/log/Xorg.0.log xrandr krandrtray xdpyinfo http://fm.no-ip.com/Auth/dpi-screen-window.html
Ah, helpful. xdpyinfo seems to say that I'm running at 1920x1200 while the logfile lists lots of Modelines, that one is listed first, and I see "h_active: 1920" and "v_active: 1200" so that looks like confirmation to me. I should probably post a separate question about various cards. Considering Radeon 5450, GeForce 210 and GeForce 8600GS in case this one doesn't work out. In case anyone is reading this and has experience with those - particularly as an "add on" card overriding an onboard one, I'd love to hear about it. Thanks again. Michael -- Michael Fischer michael@visv.net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org