I think you made a typo there. The final, stable release of 12.1 will be in November.[/QUOTE]
No that’s not a typo. I expect once 12.1 is released that Factory becomes 12.2 shortly afterwards, so the version number gets bumped up; because that’s what happened in the past, and that’s the plan. We know the next release is 12.2 thanks to the voted on policy. With 11.4 factory became 11.5 for a while, people talked about 12.0, but know we know 12.1, 12.2, 12.3 & 13.1 in November, see openSUSE:Roadmap - openSUSE
Factory does not disappear and get thrown away, just because 11.1, … 11.4, 12.1 reach GM and have DVD pressings. Anyone can see what happens, just look in the Factory archives, for instance this disucssion on “next” version number - [opensuse-factory] 11.5 vs. 12.0](http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-factory/2011-03/msg00065.html) a few messages through someone points out there’s an 11.5 in “updates”. Of course now we know 11.5 will never happen, it’s 12.1 that Factory’s rolling on towards
Have just done a clean install of 12.1 M3 over the old M2, from the X86 DVD on my PC1 desktop.
It went ok up to the first reboot but all attempts to boot (non-failsafe) ended with a black screen. A failsafe reboot (with the DVD still in place) brought up the message that install had failed, would I like to continue. So said yes and the installation completed successfully.
So far haven’t done any testing but the usual info is as follows:
Linux 3.0.0-rc7-2-desktop x86_64
Current user: xxxxx@linux-a32j
System: openSUSE 12.1 Milestone 3 (x86_64)
KDE: 4.6.5 (4.6.5)
Display Info
Vendor: nVidia Corporation
Model: GeForce 9400 GT
2D driver: fbdev
3D driver: swrast (No 3D Acceleration) (7.10.3)
The monitor is running at 1600x1200, instead of 1900x1200 and I guess I need nouveau to fix that.
Ah yes - that’s better. Without nomodeset I could only do failsafe boots. Now I can boot properly and the screen resolution is back to 1920x1200, with 2D driver NV. I see though that resizing windows is very slow.
There’s number of “known” bugs been posted up by the opensuse-testers already in the Wiki - openSUSE:Most annoying bugs 12.1 dev - openSUSE
Seems like an entry on certain “Nvidia” cards may be in order.
I entered Driver “nouveau” as suggested by Oldcpu and the result is that, when using either nomodeset or Failsafe I end up with a text screen inviting me to log in - no KDE. It would be useful if someone else could confirm.
That suggests as oldcpu explained, that Nouveau is the problem. I would check bugzilla & if no report made already, make one. I have acess to an Nvidia box I can run Live CD on, might be able to confirm your findings in an hour or so.
Because of a previous problem of not having a login screen, I had to do a clean install of KDE Live Build 0136.
First trial I selected “Live KDE+ F4+NO APIC” and got a blank screen then text mode shows up. Logged in as root, but screen showed “FIBMAM(?)”, so I quit.
Second trial: I selected “Live KDE+F4 + safe settings”. Screen showed “nepomuk is not running”. Installation was OK. After initial reboot I got a blank screen.
Third trial: same as in 2nd but added “nomodeset” to Grub menu’s boot options. Screen showed “The previous installation has failed. Continue?”. I answered YES and got a login screen, finally! I then went YAST > bootloader to add “nomodeset” to kernel boot options in /boot/grub/menu.lst.
Other than the above, printer and wired connection work. I have not tried setting up wireless connection yet.
That’s “normal” it’s the FIBMAP error caused by preload and preload-kmp-desktop packages shown on text console. That you saw it suggests X11 was not started, no kdm.
Second trial: I selected “Live KDE+F4 + safe settings”. Screen showed “nepomuk is not running”. Installation was OK. After initial reboot I got a blank screen.
Third trial: same as in 2nd but added “nomodeset” to Grub menu’s boot options. Screen showed “The previous installation has failed. Continue?”. I answered YES and got a login screen, finally! I then went YAST > bootloader to add “nomodeset” to kernel boot options in /boot/grub/menu.lst.
Other than the above, printer and wired connection work. I have not tried setting up wireless connection yet.
I am running kernel 3.0.0-rc7-2-desktop
Do you hvae Nvidia graphics card by any chance? Think KDE Computer -> System Information (sysinfo:/) shows bottom right what you have under “Display Info”.
With bleeding edge kernels, you have to compile the Nvidia driver module, and install “the hard way”, they don’t support pre-release kernels.
There’s instructions around, how to do it, but frankly I wouldn’t bother too much. If “nomodeset” works then just add that to kernel command line.
Add to DEFAULT_APPEND in /etc/sysconfig/bootloader :
