Joe Morris (NTM) wrote:
On 10/19/2007 06:34 AM, Jim Flanagan wrote:
Ok, I tried the ati driver with the radeon 9800 pro card. Makes no difference, does not work either. Then I tried setting agpmode to 4x, but that did not get me to a destop either, with 4 different drivers, vesa, radeon, ati, and flgrx. So I re-installed the 9200, and my monitor says "mode out of range", which happens with this card during default res installation, Don't even see the command line running by on boot. This with the vesa, radeon, and ati driver.
So it sounds to me like it is your monitor specs which are causing your problems. Do you know the specs? You could add them to the Monitor database so sax2 gets it right to start with. Also, if the boot screens are not visible, which are using frame buffer mode, you need to replace the vga= line in your grub menu.lst. What do you have there? You can pass this on boot also, i.e. vga=ask, or vga=0x31a (which is 1280x1024x64k, check /usr/src/linux/Documentation/fb/vesafb.txt if you have kernel sources installed). What is your monitor? I think your monitor is not well supported automatically is more your problem than your video card.
I can edit the 10.3 xrog.conf file from my 10.2 install, but I don't know what to change to make this card feed something my monitor can handle.
Section Monitor would help.
So I'll do a re-install of 10.3 again. At this point the only thing I can think of that I haven't tried, is the ati fglrx driver with 10.3 on the 9200 card. I'll try that and report back. After that I'm out of ideas.
Hope it works, but a reinstall seems drastic. If you want, i can send you my xorg.conf, but since they are not exactly the same, it could only be a reference, which I'm sure you have already.
Hi Joe, My monitor works OK, but 1280x1024 wont run on my radeon 9200 card. If I set the boot to 1024x768 I can see the boot screen, and the text. Thanks for pointing out how to set that in grub. For some reason the installer on 10.3 and 10.2 does not detect that so I have to set the res first then all goes well. Until I get to runlevel 5, then no gui. I tried a different vid card, but with the known good card, 9200, 10.3 will not run kdm. 10.2 does. I just installed the ati fglrx driver to run wtih the 9200, but that does not work either. So all 4 drivers I've tried, vesa, ati, radeon and fglrx will not boot into a gui. Short of changing my mother board, I guess I can try buying an inexpensive nvidia card. But I really don't want to spend the $$ on an agp card. Jim F -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org