On Wed, 2014-11-12 at 09:43 +1100, Glenn McIntosh wrote:
> On 12/11/14 02:02, Andrew Greig wrote:
> > Toshiba Satellite 32 bit, has been running under OpenSUSE very nicely
> > since 11. Tried an Upgrade to 13.2 from 13.1 KDE splash screen indicated
> > that it failed to load the Display [...] Now I know that openSUSE has moved
> > to systemd for this release, but is that the problem, or do I look
> > elsewhere?
> 
> More likely to be a display driver issue than a systemd one.
> 
> You don't say which Satellite model you have. Were you using the fglrx
> driver? I notice that OpenSUSE 13.2 had some issue with it.
> https://lizards.opensuse.org/2014/11/01/fglrx-warning-opensuse-13-2-tumbleweed/

Hi Glenn,

Thanks for the link, that script is an impressive piece of scripting.
But I failed a due diligence test as my Toshy has nvidia graphics and
not amd.  I found this about the nouveau driver:

On some systems with NVIDIA cards, the installer may show garbage on the
top part of the screen due to problems with the default nouveau driver.
If you are affected by this problem, you can disable the nouveau kernel
module to run the installer and then enable it again once the system is
installed or upgraded.

To disable the kernel module, once you boot from the installation media,
select the 'Installation' entry in grub and press 'e' to edit the
parameters. Then go to the line starting with 'linux' (or 'linuxefi')
and add brokenmodules=nouveau at the end. Now press F10 to continue
booting with the new parameter. After the system is installed, you can
re-enable the nouveau module by
editing /etc/modprobe.d/50-blacklist.conf and removing the entry that
blacklists nouveau.

Now my problem is more a "failure to launch" here is an extract from
lsmod

nouveau              1165639  3 
yenta_socket           40215  0 
pcmcia_rsrc            18030  1 yenta_socket
pcmcia_core            26424  3 pcmcia,pcmcia_rsrc,yenta_socket
firewire_core          65881  1 firewire_ohci
crc_itu_t              12627  1 firewire_core
mxm_wmi                12893  1 nouveau
wmi                    18689  3 toshiba_acpi,mxm_wmi,nouveau
i2c_algo_bit           13197  1 nouveau
drm_kms_helper         59103  1 nouveau
ttm                    85189  1 nouveau
drm                   280073  6 ttm,drm_kms_helper,nouveau
video                  19630  1 nouveau
button                 13683  1 nouveau

I am running the machine without graphics but with mc fortunately. Given
that the system is already installed, is there something I can do, or do
I need to run another install session?

Cheers
Andrew



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