On Fri, 2005-08-05 at 07:41 -0500, Robert Paulsen wrote:
On Friday 05 August 2005 07:31, Claude Fuhrer wrote:
Hi,
I'm trying to install SuSE 9.3 on a Dell Dimension 9100. I've tried many thing without any success.
The last try I've made was to install the distrib in text mode, and then ask yast to install the package needed to start X.
The default boot level is 3 and therefore, I have to log into the system as root and type "init 5"... The system says that runlevel has been reached and it has started the kdm service.
Then, as user, I've tried to use the command "startx" but I receive the error "fatal server error : no screens found"...
My graphic card is a Nvidia GeForce 6800 therefore I've installed the NVidia driver. But the command "switch2nvidia" complain that it cannot find a Sax-generated xorg.conf. If I try to start Sax2, a blurry picture appear on the top third of the screen (my display is a lcd with a resolution of 1600x1200) and I cannot click or do anything...
Did you have an idea what I done wrong ?
thank you in advance for your help
Can't give much help other than to say you shouldn't do *both* "init 5" and "startx".
Oh yeah -- there are two nvidia drivers. One is the default that ships with X. It is named "nv". It doesn't support accelerated 3D graphics. The other is named "nvidia" and needs to be downloaded from the Nvidia site (YaST's "install software" will do this for you). Try the "nv" driver first. There shuold be something like the following in xorg.conf: (note the Driver line).
Section "Device" BoardName "Quadro NVS with AGP8X" BusID "1:0:0" Driver "nv" Identifier "Device[0]" Screen 0 Option "Rotate" "off" VendorName "NVidia" EndSection
This will not help until he can configure "X". He has already stated that he cannot run sax2 to configure the graphic card which means he has no xorg.conf file. To the OP, try using a lower res to start with to try and get an initial xorg.conf file (sax2 -l). -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 "The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the day they start making vacuum cleaners." -Ernst Jan Plugge