11.3 MS7 Observations

English Install/Boot/Login
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Installed MS 7 yesterday. Fresh install on 2nd 320 GB drive. see
config below. Dual boot.

Encountered the following:

  1. Boot menu missing on install DVD start. This has been fixed and
    is supposed to be in MS8 (RC1 I guess) (Bug 599478 comment 37 and
    38).

Work around I use: when you get to menu screen with no text, press
F1, a small error box pops up, Press Enter and a text menu will
appear. to Install type Linux (per instruction). From there on the
fonts and text works fine.

  1. Nvidia driver.{Installed hardway} (NVIDIA-Linux-
    x86_64-256.25.run [Beta]) installs after deleting the nouveau
    driver thru YaST. Blacklisting it did not work. Also trying to
    install thru YaST the old stable driver did not work.Dependency
    problems.

  2. SuSEupdater hangs searching for updates. Must quit it or kill
    process to end it. Problably due to the update repo only having
    dummy files in it?

4> Only unsolved problem is a waring message on bootup from
Syncaptick (Not sure of spelling, flashes to quick, not found in
log). Message is “Warning the system does not support touchpad
configuration”.

I do not have a touchpad (unless referring to numeric pad on right
side of keyboard., this is a desktop system.

Overall everything so far has been good. Did notice apache2 and
Mysql had to be manually installed.

Want to especially thank oldcpu for his answers to a thread on how
to install NVIDIA Proprietary Driver on MS7.

–
Russ
| openSUSE 11.2 (2.6.31.12-0.2-desktop) x86_64 | KDE 4.4.3 | Intel
Core 2 Dual E7200 | 4 GB RAM | GeForce 8400 GS | 320GB Disc (2) |

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Blacklisting does work. However, you must reboot your computer after blacklisting nouveau.

In the Grub menu command, type: nouveau.modeset=0

This will disable KMS for nouveau.

Now you can install the latest Nvidia driver without having to delete nouvea. In case you may need it in the future.

Cheers!

Romanator

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This must only affect some DVD installs and not all. I saw a menu when I did a DVD install.

I black listed the Nouveau driver and it DOES work (ie proprietary nVidia driver install the ‘hardway’ worked). But for blacklisting to work one needs to reboot !

4

I saw this when running KDE liveCDs of M7, but I did NOT see it on an installed LXDE M7.

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upscope wrote:

> 2. Nvidia driver.{Installed hardway} (NVIDIA-Linux-
> x86_64-256.25.run [Beta]) installs after deleting the nouveau
> driver thru YaST. Blacklisting it did not work. Also trying to
> install thru YaST the old stable driver did not work.Dependency
> problems.

I’ll reinstall nouveau and try the reboot suggested.

> 4> Only unsolved problem is a waring message on bootup from
> Syncaptick (Not sure of spelling, flashes to quick, not found in
> log). Message is “Warning the system does not support touchpad
> configuration”.
I get this everytime I boot the system. I’ll get details next time
and report as bug.
>

–
Russ
| openSUSE 11.2 (2.6.31.12-0.2-desktop) x86_64 | KDE 4.4.3 | Intel
Core 2 Dual E7200 | 4 GB RAM | GeForce 8400 GS | 320GB Disc (2) |

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Hi,

I got rid of it by going to System Settings>Services Manager (on the advanced tab IIRC) and unticking the start-up entry. The tip was in another recent thread here. :wink: