Hi Scott, This may be totally irrelevant to your problem but I hope it helps :) I had a similar black screen problem (not on a laptop though) which I fixed by first downloading and installing the nvidia driver from http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_amd64_1.0-6111.html YOU always seems to give me an out of date version. My issues were caused by having multiple video out ports and the system picking the wrong one by default. You can start X in debug mode and check through the XFree86.log to see what monitor output it is using by default, mine decided to default to the TV out!! I think the relevant modifications you need to make to the XF86config would be similar to: Option "IgnoreDisplayDevices" "TV" Option "ConnectedMonitor" "DFP-0" or in context: Section "Device" BoardName "GeForce FX 5200" Driver "nvidia" Identifier "Device[0]" Screen 0 Option "NoLogo" "1" Option "Rotate" "off" Option "IgnoreDisplayDevices" "TV" Option "ConnectedMonitor" "DFP-0" VendorName "NVidia" EndSection Cheers Ed On Sat, 2004-10-23 at 03:02, 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.
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....
Scott
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