On Tue, 01 Jul 2003 21:25:01 -0400 "Rick Friedman" wrote:

I was trying to help a friend install SuSE 8.2 Personal Edition on his machine. He's booting from CD 1. The installation splash screen appears and then the GRUB menu appears. Once we chose Installation (actually, it didn't matter what we chose), it said it was loading the linux kernel. Once it reached 100% on the progress bar, the screen went black and the lights on the monitor started to blink. This indicates that the monitor is not receiving a signal from the video card (which is an nVidia card though, offhand, I don't know which one).

As a result, I was unable to help him get SuSE installed on his machine. Currently, he is running Windows 98 and, rather than upgrade Windows, he wants to move to Linux.

Has anyone heard of a problem like this? If so, what can be done? While I was not able to install on a Dell Laptop at our last installfest, I have installed it on my two laptops with no problem. I suggest you do a non-graphical install, then try to run the GUI after you have confirmed a successful installation. -- Jerry Feldman Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9 PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9

On Wed, 2003-07-02 at 03:25, Rick Friedman wrote:

lights on the monitor started to blink. This indicates that the monitor is not receiving a signal from the video card (which is an nVidia card

In this case it actually means that the monitor is receiving a signal that it can't do anything with, because it's in too high a mode (resolution or refreshrate). On the Grub bootmenu, hit F2 and choose a resolution thats appropriate for your monitor. I have the same problem. My 15" does 1024x768 @ 60hz, but it's always detected as 1280x1024 @ 75hz Actually, I know why this happens on my perticular monitor. Because the tube and other relative hardware is precisely the same as the 15" model that does 1280x768 @ 75hz, but it's crippled in it's firmware and sold as a "lower end" model. I'm still trying to find out how to get around this. Hans