Laboratory for Micro Enterprise writes:

Andreas

I'm trying to install 9.2 AMD64 on a new Asus A8N SLI Deluxe system with SATA HD and PCI-E NVidia GeForce 6600 graphics card. Using your 'Install CD with New Kernel', the boot process gets as far as 'unpacked extension disk', beeps, the screen goes blank and the system locks up - virtual consoles don't respond.

I then tried a 9.2 32-bit install from the distribution CDs. This worked ok up to first boot of the newly installed system, when again the screen went blank and the system locked up. I repeated the install, this time configuring run level 3 as the default instead of 5. That gave me console access to the system. Suspecting a graphic card driver problem, I edited /etc/X11/xorg.conf to make 'vga' the default device instead of 'nv'. Then init 5 gave me X and a gleaming new desktop. This confirmed the 'nv' driver problem I've seen reported.

The question now is how to proceed with the 64-bit install? It appears that 64-bit YaST doesn't use the 'vga' driver when it starts up (as 32-bit YaST evidently does), but instead uses the defective 'nv' driver. Is there a way of changing this unfortunate behaviour? NVidia provides a driver which is supposed to work ok, but I can't get to a point where I can install it.

You can install using a text console - just try at the linuxrc prompt to use "text" (f3?), Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, aj@suse.de, http://www.suse.de/~aj SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126