Yep, I tried it and it seems the driver doesn't work. I've found instructions on making a package from the drivers at the ATI website, but none of that works. The funny thing is I can vnc into it from another machine, and then I can use the graphical desktop like normal. Too bad those VNC settings won't work on the laptop's own lcd screen, if that makes sense. I guess I need to stick with Kubuntu although I like the SuSE distro the best. If only I could get my belkin f5d7010 wifi card to wor. I'm afraid I'm pretty new to linux and it looks as though linux is pretty hard to learn especially when I make a living at working on Windows computers. -----Original Message----- From: Paul Cartwright [mailto:paul_tbot@pcartwright.com] Sent: Monday, December 19, 2005 8:41 AM To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] Loading SuSE 10.0 on Dell C800 On Mon December 19 2005 9:26 am, egearing@gmail.com wrote:
Anyone ever try loading SuSE 10.0 onto a Dell Latitude C800? I've tried, but all I get is a black screen when x loads. I think the reason is it sees the graphics card as an ATI Rage 128 when it really is an ATI Rage Mobility M4 16M. Is there anyway to get it configured porperly? Two other Linux operating systems load X OK. They are Mandriva LE 2005 w/ a generic VESA driver and also Kubuntu Linux loads X properly. Any help would be appreciated. I'm also trying to get a Belkin F5D7010 wireless NIC to work with those but no luck either so I'm hoping SuSE 10.0 will help me solve that problem. Thanks,
there was a thread not too long ago about ATI video cards. Go to the ATI site and download the driver from them. Normally you go to init 3 and run sax2 to setup video cards, but I think ATI is different... You can try going to init 3 ( so X isn't running) then run sax2 and setup the generic VESA card for a test.. do a google search for ndiswrapper. I will soon have a DELL XPS system, so I'm right behind you with the setup.. -- Paul Cartwright Registered Linux user # 367800 -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com