Hi, I just tried to install 10.0GM, the commercial one, from the DVD. The install went fine and I rebooted and X froze with the screen just being just fuzz [small rectangles: orange, green...]. The keyboard also froze. I could not do a alt-ctrl-backspace, nor a Alt-F1-F6 nor Alt-Ctrl-Del, no LEDs either. I have an ATI9200 with a Samsung 710N [It works only at 1240x1024 @ 60Hz, it will not work at any other frequency, the screen goes black and only shows that it's not running at the recommended optimum resolution. I still have not figured a way of disabling that message]. In the hardware discovery Yast reported another ATI video card, but I could not see anything that would allow me to select the correct video card, like there was in 9.3 I don't think that it's just the video because the keyboard also froze. 1. Any way to change the video card detected by Yast? 2. Any suggestion on what to do? Right now I am using another computer, but I'll soon need it. Thanks
On Sunday 16 October 2005 03:41 pm, Syv Ritch wrote:
Hi,
I just tried to install 10.0GM, the commercial one, from the DVD. The install went fine and I rebooted and X froze with the screen just being just fuzz [small rectangles: orange, green...].
The keyboard also froze. I could not do a alt-ctrl-backspace, nor a Alt-F1-F6 nor Alt-Ctrl-Del, no LEDs either.
I have an ATI9200 with a Samsung 710N [It works only at 1240x1024 @ 60Hz, it will not work at any other frequency, the screen goes black and only shows that it's not running at the recommended optimum resolution. I still have not figured a way of disabling that message].
In the hardware discovery Yast reported another ATI video card, but I could not see anything that would allow me to select the correct video card, like there was in 9.3
I don't think that it's just the video because the keyboard also froze.
1. Any way to change the video card detected by Yast? 2. Any suggestion on what to do? Right now I am using another computer, but I'll soon need it.
Thanks
There are lots of ways out of the problem which include: 1) Using a '3' as a boot parm which will put you into init level 3 where you won't have graphics. Then you can issue 'sax' from a command line and reconfigure your video. 2) Editing /etc/X11/xorg.conf directly to change the video settings... but this is not for the faint of heart. 3) I believe there are some other boot parms which will put you into a vga mode or some other video mode.... but I haven't used them in years. I would try (1) for starters.... Hmmm instead of sax, try issuing yast and going to 'hardware' and then 'graphics card and montor'. Might be a better way to get there.
Bruce Marshall wrote:
There are lots of ways out of the problem which include:
1) Using a '3' as a boot parm which will put you into init level 3 where you won't have graphics. Then you can issue 'sax' from a command line and reconfigure your video.
A. Great I did not know that, that will help B. I don't have sax, only sax2. Is there a difference between the 2? ...
Hmmm instead of sax, try issuing yast and going to 'hardware' and then 'graphics card and montor'. Might be a better way to get there.
In the monitor, it shows the card, options and these are the options for the autodiscovered card. I can change the size and frequencies of the monitor or the monitor, but not the video card! SuSE, Novell: HELP!!!
Bruce Marshall wrote:
On Sunday 16 October 2005 04:53 pm, Syv Ritch wrote:
I can change the size and frequencies of the monitor or the monitor, but not the video card!
That's where size and freq get changed! So change them.
But my problem [I think] is that it's the wrong video card. X freezes completely, including the keyboard [no led, no alt-ctrl-backspace....] How can changing the frequency solve the keyboard problem.
On Sunday 16 October 2005 08:14 pm, Syv Ritch wrote:
Bruce Marshall wrote: <SNIP>
But my problem [I think] is that it's the wrong video card. X freezes completely, including the keyboard [no led, no alt-ctrl-backspace....]
How can changing the frequency solve the keyboard problem.
From "man sax2": -m card X=module,card X=module,... Set driver module to use for card X You can specify one driver module for each card detected. You can specify which card (module) to use as in the following: sax2 -m 0=nv -- Louis Richards
El Domingo, 16 de Octubre de 2005 15:33, Bruce Marshall escribió:
On Sunday 16 October 2005 04:53 pm, Syv Ritch wrote:
I can change the size and frequencies of the monitor or the monitor, but not the video card!
That's where size and freq get changed! So change them.
Maybe his problem is the video card. I have a box running 9.3 perfectly. I tried to do a fresh SUSE Linux 10 install. The monitor was detected as the same model that 9.3 did, but the video card was different. It went from a VIA VT 7205 to a KM440. I was never able to make it load X after installation, and booting to level 3 would attempt to load sax2, but then the box would freeze. I even copied Xorg.conf from the 9.3 installation, and still no go. So, there may be something wrong with 10.0. Regards. -- Alfredo J. Cole Grupo ACyC
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