Am 15.05.2011 03:47, schrieb Basil Chupin:
Not sure if this is of help, but yesterday I installed 11.4 KDE on my wife's desktop and tried (and eventually succeeded) in getting it to 'work' properly. The monitor's resolution is 1680X1050 but 11.4 would not go past 1280X1024. Setting "nomodeset" in the kernel boot command line allowed this as the highest to be selected as the highest resolution. (Running "x -configure" didn't really help although it got the monitor model right but this was after lots of fiddling so maybe it could have worked OK if I used it to begin with.....dunno.)
The problem was that the system would lock-up solid with the keyboard and mouse locked. This would happen randomly- at one stage the lock-up occurred after 2 minutes after a reboot, another time we went for 28 minutes before a lock-up. After some thinking, I concluded that it must be video.
The video card used is a nVidia GeForce 5500 and uses the legacy 173 nVidia driver. So what I did was in YaST2's Software Management I uninstalled anything nVidia driver and then WITHOUT rebooting, of course, I immediately re-installed them. After rebooting I had the correct resolution and the monitor brand was also correctly recognised. From this I concluded that on installation the process did not get the monitor/video settings correctly but did the second time 'round.
BC
The notebook has an ATI card and the problem shows with the radeonhd and ati driver. The configuration file is empty and therefore I think that there can be no misconfiguration. nomodeset by the way does not help at all. Xorg then crashes deterministically at startup before it shows anything. Christoph -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org