I'm posting this here on the off chance someone else has encountered it. I can't find the appropriate forum on X.org, the suse-laptop list is German only, and my post to suse-linux-e hasn't given me an answer. Installation of SuSE 10.0 on my new HP Pavilian xv6000 went incredibly well, the easiest laptop install I've ever done. I'm left with one problem, hopefully not a show stopper. Card is ATI Radeon XPRESS 2000m 5955 The widescreen 1280x800 works great while the window managers are running, but X won't exit properly. Regardless of whether I exit to gdm or console, the screen turns into a gray color, sometimes tinted with various colors, plus some horizontal and vertical lines. At this point the screen will not recover. Pressing <alt>F2 -F9 while X is running causes the screen to do the same thing. The problem occurs with KDE, GNOME, and FVWM2. It's not a total lock, as the three finger salute properly reboots the computer after an orderly shutdown. Skipping all window managers, i.e., simply typing "/usr/bin/X11/X" at the command line in runlevel 3, then pulling the rug out wiith <crtl><alt><backspace> gives a normal exit to a good console. Is there something I can put in .xinit or somewhere that will fix this? -- The intelligence of any discussion diminishes with the square of the number of participants. -- Adam Walinsky
* Tim Hanson
Skipping all window managers, i.e., simply typing "/usr/bin/X11/X" at the command line in runlevel 3, then pulling the rug out wiith <crtl><alt><backspace> gives a normal exit to a good console.
Is there something I can put in .xinit or somewhere that will fix this?
Sounds like gdm/kdm/xdm is setting your video card into a mode that it cannot recover from when dropping to text mode. Have you gone to runlevel 3 and ran 'sax2' to properly set your video parameters? -- Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535 http://wahoo.no-ip.org @ http://counter.li.org HOG # US1244711 Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2
Not good. The first time I had screen lock when I pushed the "test" button. After that, I got through "test" and had screen lock when I pushed "save." What actually works, temporarily, was to copy xorg.conf.install over xorg.conf. I'm not totally sure about the resolution; I doubt its as high as the card should go. All my attempts to get into sax2 from gui yast, console yast, and by typing sax2 dump me back into 640X320 without the entry screen that shows resolution and 3d status. It's been a while since I dove into one of these (back then, XF86) files, but I'm going to start adding things to the install file from my last sax generated file and see what breaks it.
Sounds like gdm/kdm/xdm is setting your video card into a mode that it cannot recover from when dropping to text mode. Have you gone to runlevel 3 and ran 'sax2' to properly set your video parameters?
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* Tim Hanson
It's been a while since I dove into one of these (back then, XF86) files, but I'm going to start adding things to the install file from my last sax generated file and see what breaks it.
I solve those type problems by booting with a Knoppix Live CD and copying the xorg.conf file Knoppix generates into the SUSE /ext/X11 directory. Don't forget the soft link to XF86Config. ps: Please don't top post and please trim your quotes. -- Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535 http://wahoo.no-ip.org @ http://counter.li.org HOG # US1244711 Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2
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