http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=610424
http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=610424#c9
--- Comment #9 from Silviu Marin-Caea
After an installation that seems to work fine, there's a black screen with a bunch of random pixels as mouse pointer.
Sounds like a contradiction to me !?!
A mostly black screen with a few pixels in the middle that aren't black. I think I wasn't clear, it's not a black _text_ screen with a cursor, but a black graphic screen with a bunch of pixels as mouse pointer.
What would the would-be user do?
Read the friendly release notes about hacks and works-arounds?
Users should always do this. Especially new ones.
Fact of life is they'd rather don't. I do, but I'm old school, I wouldn't run away screaming from SUSE and I know the solution now. But me and few others like me aren't enough, we need more users, we shouldn't scare them away with black screens and hacks and work-arounds :-) Maybe after we get them hooked on SUSE.
Or try Ubuntu? Hmmm... Is it fixed with Ubuntu?
It's enough if Ubuntu doesn't use KMS yet, then it's "fixed". Is KMS really ready for production? Can we make a blacklist of video cards that shouldn't use mode setting? Bugs that show up right after installation, before any updates can be applied aren't cool at all. Especially bugs that show a black screen, very discouraging for any new users.
I really hope this bug is not typical for all ATI cards or a lot of users will be running.
I can't say. I only see reports, if KMS doesn't work. When KMS *is* working, nobody dares to report this.
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