[opensuse] Upgraded from 10.2 to 10.3, no display doesn't work
Hey everyone.. I am pretty new to linux, and installed openSUSE 10.2 on my laptop a couple months back. The laptop is a Gateway M680 (17.1" widescreen). Everything worked fine on 10.2 out of the box. Now earlier today I installed 10.3 fresh over the 10.2 installation. Now whenever I boot up, the screen turns black and never comes back on. Any ideas, or where I can start to look? Thanks! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Sunday 14 October 2007 06:12:53 pm Keith Chapman wrote:
Hey everyone.. I am pretty new to linux, and installed openSUSE 10.2 on my laptop a couple months back. The laptop is a Gateway M680 (17.1" widescreen). Everything worked fine on 10.2 out of the box. Now earlier today I installed 10.3 fresh over the 10.2 installation. Now whenever I boot up, the screen turns black and never comes back on.
Any ideas, or where I can start to look?
Thanks!
Is the laptop screen black, or an external screen? Also, video card do you have? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Keith Chapman wrote:
Hey everyone.. I am pretty new to linux, and installed openSUSE 10.2 on my laptop a couple months back. The laptop is a Gateway M680 (17.1" widescreen). Everything worked fine on 10.2 out of the box. Now earlier today I installed 10.3 fresh over the 10.2 installation. Now whenever I boot up, the screen turns black and never comes back on.
Any ideas, or where I can start to look?
Thanks!
This is just a hunch, but on installation did you turn on 3D graphics. If you did try turning it off to see if that gets you to a desktop at least. Two methods, either runs sax2 as root, or remote in (vnc) thru network. Yast>Hardware>Graphics..... Good luck, Jim F -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Sunday 14 October 2007 18:12, Keith Chapman wrote:
Hey everyone.. I am pretty new to linux, and installed openSUSE 10.2 on my laptop a couple months back. The laptop is a Gateway M680 (17.1" widescreen). Everything worked fine on 10.2 out of the box. Now earlier today I installed 10.3 fresh over the 10.2 installation. Now whenever I boot up, the screen turns black and never comes back on.
Any ideas, or where I can start to look?
After it boots - or at least seems to finish booting - press CTRL + ALT + Backspace. See if that gets you to a command prompt screen. We can help you from there. -- kai ponte www.perfectreign.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Sunday 14 October 2007 11:28:20 pm Kai Ponte wrote:
On Sunday 14 October 2007 18:12, Keith Chapman wrote:
Hey everyone.. I am pretty new to linux, and installed openSUSE 10.2 on my laptop a couple months back. The laptop is a Gateway M680 (17.1" widescreen). Everything worked fine on 10.2 out of the box. Now earlier today I installed 10.3 fresh over the 10.2 installation. Now whenever I boot up, the screen turns black and never comes back on.
Any ideas, or where I can start to look?
After it boots - or at least seems to finish booting - press CTRL + ALT + Backspace.
See if that gets you to a command prompt screen.
We can help you from there.
It is easier to use Failsafe boot option, or type number 3 on first boot screen and Enter. -- Regards, Rajko. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On 10/15/2007 09:12 AM, Keith Chapman wrote:
Hey everyone.. I am pretty new to linux, and installed openSUSE 10.2 on my laptop a couple months back. The laptop is a Gateway M680 (17.1" widescreen). Everything worked fine on 10.2 out of the box. Now earlier today I installed 10.3 fresh over the 10.2 installation. Now whenever I boot up, the screen turns black and never comes back on.
Any ideas, or where I can start to look?
Check your log (/var/log/messages) for any pertinent error messages. Also your xorg log file, and maybe /var/log/warn. For example, I found out after google earth was killing X that I no longer had 3D enabled after upgrading from 10.2. I tried sax2 (via Yast, Hardware, Graphics card) and my screen would lose sync when 3D was enabled. I noticed in the log that agpgart was going into 8x. I know in 10.2 it only worked with 4x, so I changed the AGP Mode to 4, and that fixed 3D and allowed my machine to once again work with 3D (and google earth no longer crashed X). HTH. -- Joe Morris Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 10.3 x86_64 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On 10/14/07, Keith Chapman
Hey everyone.. I am pretty new to linux, and installed openSUSE 10.2 on my laptop a couple months back. The laptop is a Gateway M680 (17.1" widescreen). Everything worked fine on 10.2 out of the box. Now earlier today I installed 10.3 fresh over the 10.2 installation. Now whenever I boot up, the screen turns black and never comes back on.
Any ideas, or where I can start to look?
Thanks!
Keith, My Dell did similar. The below summarizes my now working 10.3 install. 1) Fresh Install terminated with a black screen. 2) I pushed the power button and rebooted (Possibly not the smartest move. I was frustrated.) 3) Got some of the final install steps again. 4) Got a display this time, but horribly unusable 5) cntrl-alt-f2 and logged into a text console as root 6) Ran Sax2 multiple times with multiple args. Non provided a clean display. 7) By pure chance ran "sax2 1600x1200" as my last attempt 8) Rebooted the machine for some reason. 9) My display suddenly started to work just fine and continues to work Hope you can at least get some troubleshooting ideas from the above. FYI: I did put all this in a bugzilla, but I did not capture logs early enough to be really useful. Greg -- Greg Freemyer Litigation Triage Solutions Specialist http://www.linkedin.com/in/gregfreemyer The Norcross Group The Intersection of Evidence & Technology http://www.norcrossgroup.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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