openSUSE 12.2 Revival Part 1, Sabayon 9 Revival, Mandriva, and Mageia 3

So after sticking the 12.2 disk in Mei-chan, I noticed there wasn't a problem at all with the background (meaning it's not the GPU causing the problem). So I swapped out the hard drive to test out GRUB2 (I installed LM10 before installing 12.2), and it worked like it was supposed to. Yay!

There's a GUI interface to configure GRUB2 with 12.2, which is really nice... Well, a bit expected seeing that it was in the same "place" as the GRUB1 configuration tool.

So I've forgone the installation for Triela, Mei-chan, and Lie-chan.

I've also tried Mandriva, which wasn't all that great... it was really slow compared to Mageia.

I reinstalled Mageia, and used the Cauldron repository to attempt to install Firefox 15, but it kept doing weird errors (saying I need such and such packages), and I somehow got it to install; I was attempting to install something else, but it did the same thing, so I said screw it and went back to Sabayon.

Well, I think I kept looking at other distributions before giving up and going back to Sabayon. Regardless, it's installed now.

I've tinkered with xorg.conf without much success, and at the moment, I've got the other monitor turned off by settings. I managed to obtain the xorg.conf file from Mei-chan before installing 12.2. I've tweaked it a bit, and tried it without avail. (:/)

Well, I do know now that the problem is not the GPU since Mei-chan and Melty have the same GPU... So it's either the AMD FX chip that's causing problems, or openSUSE isn't properly setting something.

What I'd like to try is a test install of 12.2 to see what video driver it's using with whatever is similar to eselect opengl list. The only problem is that I've already settled into Sabayon a bit, so the only other real option is to install it onto a USB hard drive, and hope it'll boot properly (if I remember right, last time I attempted it, it didn't work well).

If my suspicions are correct, openSUSE might be setting my video mode to the wrong driver, so it breaks as soon as it gets to the desktop. It's really the only plausible explanation, since I really don't think the FX chip has anything to do with it.

Well, at the very least, it's nice to know that I don't have to abandon openSUSE altogether. Hopefully I figure out a fix for Melty...

Oh, I tried Mageia 3 alpha 1, and it hung while booting (:/)