Hello, greetings from Mexico everyone!!! rotfl!
This is my first post, and I just want to say I loveee openSUSE for me its clearly the best, been using linux for over a year now.
But sadly I have a problem I have not mannaged to correct by my own and i’ve been trying for 3 weeks!
The problem is that my display is stuck at 800x600(I can’t stand it any more ;-), after doing lots of things I want to try now disabling KMS as i red on an Arch forum so I can use the legacy intel drivers that i have already installed and luckily solve the problem!
The release notes say this:
*"Initializing Graphics with KMS (Kernel Mode Setting)
With openSUSE 11.3 we are switching to KMS (Kernel Mode Setting) for Intel, ATI and NVIDIA graphics, which now is our default. If you encounter problems with the KMS driver support (intel, radeon, nouveau), disable KMS by adding nomodeset to the kernel boot command line.(I don’t know how to do this either as gfxboot fails to start and i get a only text boot prompt between windows and linux) To set this permanently, add it to the kernel command line in /boot/grub/menu.lst**.(yeah but how exactly should i write this?) **This option makes sure the appropriate kernel module (intel, radeon, nouveau) is loaded with modeset=0 in initrd, i.e. KMS is disabled.
In the rare cases when loading the DRM module from initrd is a general problem and unrelated to KMS, it is even possible to disable loading of the DRM module in initrd completely. For this set the NO_KMS_IN_INITRD sysconfig variable to yes via YAST, which then recreates initrd afterwards. Reboot your machine.
On Intel without KMS the Xserver falls back to the fbdev driver (the intel driver only supports KMS); alternatively, there is the “intellegacy” driver (xorg-x11-driver-video-intel-legacy package) which still supports UMS (User Mode Setting). To use it, edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-device.conf and change the driver entry to intellegacy.
On ATI for current GPUs it falls back to radeonhd. On NVIDIA without KMS the nv driver is used (the nouveau driver only supports KMS). "*
So…
Here’s where i get lost
I dont know how to configure this texts, here is my /boot/grub/menu.lst:
**# Modified by YaST2. Last modification on sáb ago 7 14:15:08 CDT 2010
THIS FILE WILL BE PARTIALLY OVERWRITTEN by perl-Bootloader
Configure custom boot parameters for updated kernels in /etc/sysconfig/bootloader
default 2
timeout 8
##YaST - generic_mbr
gfxmenu (hd0,4)/boot/message
##YaST - activate
###Don’t change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: linux###
title openSUSE 11.3 - 2.6.34-12
root (hd0,4)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.34-12-default root=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST3120022A_5JS1AV3J-part5 resume=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST3120022A_5JS1AV3J-part2 splash=silent quiet showopts
initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.34-12-default
###Don’t change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: failsafe###
title Failsafe – openSUSE 11.3 - 2.6.34-12
root (hd0,4)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.34-12-default root=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST3120022A_5JS1AV3J-part5 showopts apm=off noresume nosmp maxcpus=0 edd=off powersaved=off nohz=off highres=off processor.max_cstate=1 nomodeset x11failsafe
initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.34-12-default
###Don’t change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: windows###
title Windows
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1**
So where do i put “nomodeset”?
And how do i make 50-device.conf to select the legacy intell drivers? last time i modified it I broke everyting hehe! had to reinstall, I thought i only deeded to put intel instead of radeon and remove the # because I thought everithing after a #is not interpreted but hehe i guess i was wrong!
**Section “Device”
Identifier “Default Device”
#Driver “radeon”
Required magic for radeon/radeonhd drivers; output name
(here: “DVI-0”) can be figured out via ‘xrandr -q’
#Option “monitor-DVI-0” “Default Monitor”
EndSection**
Finally here is my sysinfo log:
Display information
Manufacturer: Intel Corporation
Model: i740
Driver 2D: i740
Driver 3D: swrast (No 3D aceleration) (7.8.2))
Hope you can help me and thanks in advance!!! and sorry for my english hope there isn’t too many mistakes!
Bye!