On Fri, 2003-05-30 at 20:44, Michael George wrote:
I tried just booting the installation DVD and I wasn't even able to see the boot screen at all. I think that kernel is as stock as can be...
Thanks! -Michael
Well either ways, the vga mode that your kernel uses is not supported by your monitor. And unfortunately this cannot be changed while the machine is running - you have to reboot and set the right parameters (at least the last time I checked). Check your /boot/grub/ment.1st file. You'll see some kernel parameters and one is something to the tune of vga=761 or vga=0x317 Change that to vga=5 (most monitors support this) and if this doesn't work, remove the vga= line completely - this will throw your monitor into normal 80x25 character text mode. Not the nice imaged background SuSE provides, but at least you'll be able to see the kernel messages.