On Tue, 2006-08-08 at 09:24 +0200, Clayton wrote:
SuSE 10.1 install appears to go fine until it gets to setting the video. The monitor and card are detected OK and a reasonable resolution is suggested, but the "sax2 test" just produces a black screen until it finally drops out. Setting the resolution to the
I am sure it is an nVidia driver issue, but surely the nv driver Yast installs should work for any nVidia card.
What monitor is connected? A CRT? A TFT?
Tried both CRT and TFT monitors that I use on a couple of my other SuSE 10.1 boxes. Max sync of the CRT is 120Hz.
Have you checked the xorg.conf file to see if the frequency ranges it's trying to use are actually within the real frequency ranges the monitor is capable of?
Checked xorg.conf which showed the max frequency of 75Hz.
I've had issues with SAX guessing/using the wrong frequency ranges - especially for TFT monitors. The result is... blank screen... because the TFT turns itself off. That's nothing to do with any problems with the nVidia card or the driver itself.... assuming that's the problem.
In this case SAX appears to be making a reasonable guess.
So, the solution to the video problem might be as simple as either using SAX and customizing the freq settings, or opening the xorg.conf file in your favorite text editor and changing the horiz and vert freq settings to match what the monitor really can support.
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Problem is that by the end of the install process even SAX will not start from init 3. After 6 attempts at reformat and clean install, I will just have to accept that SuSE is never going to work on this box. Is there a hardware (in)compatibility list somewhere that I can add the details of this junk? Thanks for your time. Dave