On Monday 01 August 2005 8:43 pm, James Wright wrote:
Hello, my brother in law was sick and tired of all the virus' and spyware, and agreed to let me put Linux on his computer. And I was sick and tired of fixing his computer all the time. So I popped the Suse 9.3 CD 1 in and it started the boot-up to install. When it gets to what I think in the initial YAST screen (or maybe it is just the first configuration screen) it is entirely messed up. I get the same with 9.2. It looks like the screen is compressed into a tiny area at the top of the screen, maybe an inch vertical and not quite the full width of the screen long. When I move the mouse I see a diagonal line move up or down, corresponding with the mouse movements. I would imagine that there is a video problem, but don't really know what to do about it. Also, I believe I read something like this in the list before, but did not find it via google, so either it wasn't posted, or I did not search with the correct terms. This is a default box, Dell Dimension L933r, with one exception. I moved his current drive (FAT32, it still has Windows ME, so he can retrieve his old documents and music), to be a slave, and put in a different HDD to install Linux onto. The drive I put in is fine, just not yet formatted, as I figured Suse install would do this. If somebody could help me out, refer me to a previous post, or just point me in the right direction I would really appreciate it. Thank you.
James W
I have its little bro', the L733r. Video is an issue with it also. Can't use framebuffer to have the GUI install screens. Haven't found a solution yet but I believe its the onboard video arrangement that is the problem. Nothing in BIOS affects it and I have the last/latest BIOS installed. Once sax2 has run the L733r is fine with graphics. The key at install is to hit F2 and choose Text versus Vesa or whatever else shows up there for your L933r. You'll get the ncurses install but once sax2 runs you'll have all the nice graphics. Stan