04.03.2016 22:54, don fisher пишет:
I have a few questions, some of which may be pretty dumb. I did look on Google for help with the graphics resolution but with no success. Has anybody else set one of these up?
1. My graphics consists of a Nvidia GTX980M and and Intel HD Graphics 530. Two controllers I guess. The native screen resolution is 3840x2160. When I attempt to load the Leap DVD installation, which I believe uses the Nouveau driver on the Nvidia hardware, the text is so small I can hardly read it. I do not understand how to control the mapping between the graphics controller and the screen.
Do you have any BIOS setting to select video card? If not, you are probably using Intel during installation (although there could be software switch, at least on my Dell Latitude E5450 nvidia-settings offers permanent switch between Intel and nVidia). ...
2. The Ethernet and wlan hardware is not recognized by the distribution DVD media. Windows says the Ethernet is a Killer e2400 Gigabit Ethernet Controller. The wlan is Killer wireless-n/a/ac 1535 wireless network adapter. Are these supported in the openSuse distribution, and if so why doesn’t the installation disk see them?
You should always show at least output of "lspci -nn" when asking such questions. Do not assume that everyone knows what hardware of the day vendor decided to put into your specific model. Nor are marketing names of any use. It seems that at least /some/ of Alianware 17 R3 are using Qualcom QCA6174 HW2.1 for wireless. In this case Leap does not have firmware for it. You could try Tumbleweed or try installing latest kernel-firmware from Kernel:stable. But in any case, using newer kernel will make sense with so new hardware. I do not know what LAN device you have (it is some Atheros as well), please show "lspci -nn" to start guessing. May need firmware as well.
Sorry, but with no network and invisible text on the screen life is a bit difficult. Any suggestion or pointers would be appreciated. As an aside, I attempted to run the Alienware on board diagnostics and was again presented with the unreadable small text. I did read the Alienware manuals and see no reference to screen resolution.
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