----- Original Message ----- From: "Bruce Marshall" <bmarsh@bmarsh.com> To: "SLE" <suse-linux-e@suse.com> Sent: Saturday, August 05, 2006 7:27 PM Subject: Re: [SLE] X problems
On Saturday 05 August 2006 12:17, Russ Stewart wrote:
Hi Bruce & all
I've tried the same settings with SAX2 with the -V switch set to 1064x768@75 and still nothing. Not having a working version of xorg.conf, I have no working base to go from, I'm also new to Suse since a long time ago. At the worst case how do I set the X server to use the same defaults as used by the installer, at least that would be useable, or is it a case of buying a Nvidia PCI E card. I would have hoped that the Suse developers would have got the drivers for this onboard ATI thing.
Trying to recall what I did to get the ATI to work:
First, the ATI drivers require as a starting point, an xorg.conf that is set to the screen size that you want to end up with. I was able to start with the xorg.conf from my 10.0 system.
Then, going into SAX2 with that would cause my machine to hang.... so I had to enter SAX2 with:
sax2 -l
which sets it to a low resolution. This gives you a totally screwed up screen and navigating is by guess and by golly. You need to navigate around and get the setting you want, but that is mostly guess-work since you can't read the screen very well.
Once you done that, you are probably all set.
HOWEVER - - - - - even though after a week of work I *did* get it to work, I still went out and bought an Nvidia card for $50 and haven't looked back.
I know the guy who writes the drivers for Nvidia so I have some faith that they will work... and they do.
Next installment !!!! Mandriva 2007 does not have an /etc/X11 directory in its live mode, so I resized the /home partition and loaded MDV2007 in what was left over. Now MDV2007 uses 768x576 , an odd size, the display section of the xorg.conf file was pasted into the suse xorg.conf, and it still the mdv file is attached. so is the suse xorg.conf is also attached is a mess, screen unreadable.
It might end up with buying another card (Nvidia) Its unlike the Suse developers not to be able do something the Mandriva guys can do ! :) If the attachments get strippped by the mailing list I can mail them as part of the text, but this daft windows machine cant do what any linux mailer can do . Russ