Just got a white screen trying to boot the LiveCD, powered the computer down, and used nomodeset at the GRUB Legacy CD menu. After checking the drivers again with Konqueror, it now says “radeonhd” as my 2D driver, last night it was “radeon”, what gives?
Edit: The boot splash load screen, and Shutdown splash load screen work better with the “radeonhd” driver. I will run “nomodeset” again, to test it.
Edit: another boot with “nomodeset”, the splash still goes loads to half way, goes to a blinking cursor, then promptly loads KDE (with a few black outs then stopping with a fully loaded KDE and the startup chimes). It is still using the radeonhd 2D driver, but it is still using the R300 Classic 3D driver. I guess the only way I can test the OpenGL performance with this is to try a screensaver. Do you think I should install, and if so, how do I keep the effects of nomodeset permanent?
Update: OpenGL screensavers seem to work as good as they did back in Ubuntu 9.10. So, maybe radeonhd is my graphics driver?
Great you made it!
To make the setting permanent go into yast, select System (left hand pane), click on Boot Loader (right hand pane), click on the Desktop / Default – open SUSE 11.3 … then click on Edit, go to the end of the line under Optional Kernel Command Line Parameter and add a space and nomodeset.
So it should then look something like,
resume=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD5000AAKS-00A7B2_WD-WCASY5960444-part1 splash=silent quiet showopts nomodeset
click OK to return to the previous menu, then do the same for the Failsafe entry.
Click OK again to exit the Boot Loader Settings then reboot and your are finished.
Ok, I will install it now, then boot in with “nomodeset”. Then I will make those changes. Hopefully all goes well.
Should I have “boot from MBR” disabled?
My recommendation is don’t alter the MBR settings!!!
I am not up to date on how Windows works these days but MS used to have a secret number in there.
If its changed Windows probably will not boot.
Oops. Oh, well. GRUB2 has edited the MBR before, and I didn’t lose the ability to boot to Vista. Anyway, I applied the changes to the bootloader (adding nomodeset after showopts, but the failsafe already contained a nomodeset, so that was not changed), and I will now attempt to shutdown then power back up.
Everything works, barring audio from Flash in Firefox. Thanks for all the help!
Start a new thread on that. Its likely fixable.
I already have found the solution. I just had to turn up the PCM Slider on KMix. Thanks again to everyone who has helped me in this process.
Well done Jazzmaster94. Sticking with these issues and solving them one at a time is the best way to learn! I’m sure this thread will help other new users as well. Thanks for the update.
I’m glad you think that about this thread! I cannot thank you all enough for the help. Your help through this entire process goes to show that forum support can be superior both phone and IM support.