[NTLUG:Discuss] Boot weirdness

[cjcox@acm.org]

There are are many evil things coming.  One is kms which assumes all video drivers support it.  The second is Plymouth such also makes a ton of misguided assumptions. You'll need to disable modesetting on the kernel boot line ... If things are still giving you grief, or you just want to free up some disk space in your boot partition... If you have one... Then package remove Plymouth.  Another thing is remove on a suse box is apper... Again, only if its giving you a headache.

Fedora is planning to remove all driver support for cards that they think don't support kms.  That will leave some mistakes and remove graphical capabilities for a significant chunk of the server market.

Sent from my HTC EVO 4G LTE exclusively from Sprint

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From: "Fred" <fredstevens at yahoo.com>
To: "discuss at ntlug.org" <discuss at ntlug.org>
Subject: [NTLUG:Discuss] Boot weirdness
Date: Fri, Oct 25, 2013 10:28 PM


Just installed opensuse 12.3 into an old P4 server and now when it boots,

my monitor gives me an "Input not supported" error during the text portion
of the boot but displays ok when the X server starts in run level 5. What did
I do wrong? How do I fix it? I have spent the evening searching and trying 
different things but nothing has worked so far. It doesn't help that the grub 
docs (or is it grub2 now?) on the suse 12.3 pages don't describe what is
installed. 

Obviously the resolution during the first part of the boot is wrong and not 
something my monitor can handle but I cannot find the fix.

Fred
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