On Friday 22 October 2004 08:02 pm, Scott Leighton wrote:
On Friday 22 October 2004 12:58 pm, Brad Bourn wrote:
Well,
I got the HP zv5000 and LOVE IT!
Just got mine a week ago, zv5320us.
I was able to get SuSE 9.1 on it without too much trouble.
Got the nvidia driver working and the widescreen (1280x800) resolution running.
Yes, took me 5 days to figure that one out <g>.
I know the boadcom wireless isn't going to work until 9.2 (hint hint hint).
Well, mine's the Athlon XP-M so I was able to get the wireless working using ndiswrapper.
I am only having one problem and have one request
The problem I'm having is that once X has loaded, I cannot ever get back to a console, virtual or otherwise. I mean I can get to it, I just can't see it. The screen is messed up.
Is there a way to fix this?
The workaround I'm using is to;
1) boot vga=vesa 2) during the bootup process, BEFORE x starts, press the fn f4 keys.
I was wondering what that key did, god forbid reading the directions..... hheheheh So, that puts the video to standard resolution eh?
Doing the above makes the problem go away. Now a question for you, did you load the SuSE nvidia driver update and did it work? I'm running with the nv driver, the nvidia one results in a blank screen and a locked up system. Still trying to solve that one....
Well, as it turns out, the nvidia update went just fine for me. Worked first time and allowed the 1200x800 resolution. Then, after struggling with the console screen issue for many hours, I decided to look to see what version of nvidia driver the update installed. It was 2 releases old. I decided to try the 6111 for amd64. Installed without any trouble and the console screen issues went away. They must have changed the way the driver un-initializes X to make it ready for VESA. Takes a little bit longer to switch, but the console is now running with nice resolution (even wide) Thanks for the information about the fn - F4 key. B-)
Scott
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