Hi! Since the latest 2 versions of openSUSE and even other distros ( last 2 years , Ubuntu, Mint, etc. ) can not do the full installation of the operating system. Looking for solutions to this problem, I’ve been using Linux for many years and this never happened to me. You can see images in the links below. Many thanks to those who can help me.
With Live CD, I have the same problem.
My PC
Specs:
Motherboard - ASUS P5B-E
Processor: C2D E6400
GraficCard: NVidia 240GT
Memo: Team Group 2 x 4GB + 1x 1GB
Pictures of installation
with Live CD KDE
pic 1 - pic 2 - pic3
with Lice CD GNOME
Pic 1 -Pic 2 - Pic 3-
Hi! Since the latest 2 versions of openSUSE and even other distros ( last 2 years , Ubuntu, Mint, etc. ) can not do the full installation of the operating system. Looking for solutions to this problem, I’ve been using Linux for many years and this never happened to me. You can see images in the links below. Many thanks to those who can help me.
With Live CD, I have the same problem.
My PC
Specs:
Motherboard - ASUS P5B-E
Processor: C2D E6400
GraficCard: NVidia 240GT
Memo: Team Group 2 x 4GB + 1x 1GB
Pictures of installation
with Live CD KDE
pic 1 - pic 2 - pic3
with Lice CD GNOME
Pic 1 -Pic 2 - Pic 3-
Before you press the enter key to make your starting selection, enter the kernel mode command: nomodeset and then press the enter key. Use the arrow key first to select the wanted startup of openSUSE Live KDE or GNOME or to select Installation, then type in the **nomodedset **kernel option command and then press the enter key. If this works, you will need to type in nomodeset before you startup openSUSE every time or as root, you can add it in to the /boot/grub/menu.lst for the standard startup of openSUSE, if you decide to install it to your hard drive.
Thank You,
Please give this a try: remove the 1GB RAM module and see what happens. Shouldn’t be an issue, but I’ve seen it help even though.
Thanks for your help.
I have considered two alternatives but none worked. I think the problem is the Graphic Card compatibility. Tomorrow I will test with the old Nvidia 7600 GT Graphic Card to see what is the outcome. If it results we know that the problem is in the XFX Nvidia 240GT. Please accept my apologies for the inconvenience.
Thank you,
No inconvenience at all. From the pics I’d say you could be right. Please let us know the outcome of your attempts.
I could post similar pictures. I have to deal with the issue more and more often on all distros since nouveau has become the default driver - AFAIK Linus Torvalds was against this decision). Booting with the option nomodest provides a solution in most cases. It sometimes doesn’t help. Yesterday I had to install Ubuntu oneiric on a GeForce 6150. Same garbage! I finally put a Nvidia 8400GS PCI-E, installed the system and the nvidia proprietary driver. Once the proprietary driver was installed, I removed the external graphics card and the onboard GF 6150 worked fine. Same thing on Fedora, openSUSE and all modern distros - except ArchLinux which doesn’t have a GUI setup (and is IMO the easiest Linux to install noawdays - not for anyone though).
Anyway, no matter how you work the nouveau driver around, by booting with nomodeset, the vesa driver or in text mode, as soon as you get an internet connection and a root terminal, type the following for openSUSE:
zypper in ftp://download.nvidia.com/opensuse/11.4/ nvidia
zypper refresh -r nvidia
zypper in x11-video-nvidiaG02
Reboot normally and you should be fine.
- Linux (all distros) was “a lot” easier to install 2 years ago.
As I said yesterday, I ended up taking the test with the old Geoforce 7600GT and as I expected, the problem is on the XFX Nvidia Geoforce GT240 . For now, I will not install, I will wait for the final version and then see if I should opt to buy a new PC and leave this to Linux, it is necessary I have a PC with Windows OS for some of my work as I have no choice. Now I will test with KDE which is the one I have always used, but this gnome looks nice too.
Thanks for all.
Did anyone notice that it’s 12.1 he’s using? Since it’s 12.1 maybe that could have something to do with it, since it is BETA. Just a thought.
No, I did not. It wasn’t obvious until I looked at pic2.
This is has been a two year long problem with this Graphics Card XFX NVidia GT240. The problem is not the fact that it is the 11.2 Beta, but lack of care in the corrections of errors in two years. Even in the last final version of the Distro Ubuntu that has a few days, I cannot run the OS, so this is a kernel problem or the video card I have in my system. My apologies if I’m wrong and please correct me.
On 2011-10-18 16:56, lessel wrote:
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> This is has been a two year long problem with this Graphics Card XFX
> NVidia GT240. The problem is not the fact that it is the 11.2 Beta, but
> lack of care in the corrections of errors in two years. Even in the last
> final version of the Distro Ubuntu that has a few days, I cannot run the
> OS, so this is a kernel problem or the video card I have in my system.
> My apologies if I’m wrong and please correct me.
Well, you can try reporting in Bugzilla.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)
Did this gfx card ever work with the proprietary nvidia driver [yes|no]?
Did you try to boot with the option “nomodeset” [yes|no]?
Did you try to boot with the nvidia driver AND the option nomodeset [yes|no]?
Did you try to disable KMS and rebuild the initial ramdisk [yes|no]?
Seeing garbage while trying to install Linux (any distro) since the introduction of KMS with some models of nvidia (or ati) is nothing surprising (unfortunately). When you’re done installing and you have the nvidia driver (not “nouveau”, which comes with the installation), switch the graphics card (and make sure the BusID hasn’t change). Than you will know if your NVidia GT240 works or not.
BTW, the problem is “also” but not only the beta, because the nvidia driver from repo is not available for 12.1 yet. Check yourself: ftp://download.nvidia.com/opensuse/. So you cannot install it that way and my suggestion in post #6 doesn’t apply in this case.