Felix Miata wrote: > Nomodeset has three primary purposes: > > 1-workaround for Anaconda, which can't always work with all hardware. It > causes fallback to a low-performance generic Xorg video driver, good only > to make X work at all when something is broken. The fallback works, sort of. Good enough to install and run gnome, but somewhat choppily, I think. KDe doesn't run at all, however, but this might or might not be a related problem (I suspect it is related, since it worked in F23). > 2-required kernel cmdline parameter for old, little-used hardware for > which there is no KMS mode driver support for Xorg. KMS has been working with this hardware since 3-4 years or more. I recall the hours I spent booting and rebooting with nomodeset and i915.modeset=1 etc. and the joy I felt when it finally just worked without further ado. It has been working for a long, long time ;-) until just now :-O > 3-troubleshooting tool, for collecting logs and reconfiguring when crashes > or other problems prevent operation without it. Without it, I might not have been able to recognize or view the kernel crash output this morning h/t > Only in case 2 should it be included in a normal Grub menu. Unfortunately, > when needed for case 1, it typically remains included in in Grub > configuration post-installation, which causes grief for those who aren't > aware of its nature and need for removal as a part of installation > cleanup. Anaconda simply doesn't have the sophistication to do that kind > of cleanup. > > With the hardware of this bug's case, not removing it is fortunate, > because of the brokenness that prevents operation at all (except possibly > via remote login, or possibly booting to multi-user.target or lower) > without it. I sure hope we can get this fixed :-) Whatever broke it happened after f23, since it worked splendidly right up until about Saturday, when I overwrote f23 with f24 (clean install). -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
