On Tue, Sep 10, 2019 at 9:37 AM Frantisek Zatloukal <fzatl...@redhat.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > recently, I've seen few users running Fedora with nomodeset. They didn't know > about that and were just complaining about poor resolution and/or performance > (and those systems worked just fine without nomodeset). Also, sometimes, > users choose basic video driver because something is broken, but the broken > state can change over time. > > That led me to an idea - wouldn't it be better to provide some info for users > running Basic Video Driver that they're probably not getting the best Fedora > experience? > > What came to my mind? > > Having two GRUB entries for Fedora - with and without nomodeset. Users who > would install system while booted with nomodeset would see grub every time > with nomodeset option being default for the first time and then defaulting to > the last used entry. > > Apart from this, there could be either notification (or window) shown every > time GNOME is launched with basic video driver, probably with some basic > information and link to Fedora Docs explaining what that does mean. > > WDYT?
Or if the DE would inform the user that sub-optimal video settings are being used. I think the description above is a bit complicated: a) the usual case is GRUB menu is hidden by default; b) the GRUB menu is already considered "busy" and there's a feature proposal to clean it up [1]; c) there would need to be creation of two bootloader .conf files every time a kernel is installed, e.g. *.conf file A would contain line options $kernelopts *.conf file B would contain line options $kernelopts nomodeset d) we'd have to change anaconda to no longer insert nomodeset into GRUB boot parameters if the user selected it when booting to install; otherwise they'll have two boot entries with nomodeset, and instead Anaconda would presumably need to be taught how to set the one with nomodeset as the default; last and not least, e) I think the graphics folks have said nomodeset is really suboptimal, is a last resort, and suggests there are other problems going on that need to be fixed. [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/ImprovedGrubMenu Perhaps if the basic video choices go in the submenu? -- Chris Murphy _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
