On Sunday 16 October 2005 03:41 pm, Syv Ritch wrote:

Hi,

I just tried to install 10.0GM, the commercial one, from the DVD. The install went fine and I rebooted and X froze with the screen just being just fuzz [small rectangles: orange, green...].

The keyboard also froze. I could not do a alt-ctrl-backspace, nor a Alt-F1-F6 nor Alt-Ctrl-Del, no LEDs either.

I have an ATI9200 with a Samsung 710N [It works only at 1240x1024 @ 60Hz, it will not work at any other frequency, the screen goes black and only shows that it's not running at the recommended optimum resolution. I still have not figured a way of disabling that message].

In the hardware discovery Yast reported another ATI video card, but I could not see anything that would allow me to select the correct video card, like there was in 9.3

I don't think that it's just the video because the keyboard also froze.

1. Any way to change the video card detected by Yast? 2. Any suggestion on what to do? Right now I am using another computer, but I'll soon need it.

Thanks

There are lots of ways out of the problem which include: 1) Using a '3' as a boot parm which will put you into init level 3 where you won't have graphics. Then you can issue 'sax' from a command line and reconfigure your video. 2) Editing /etc/X11/xorg.conf directly to change the video settings... but this is not for the faint of heart. 3) I believe there are some other boot parms which will put you into a vga mode or some other video mode.... but I haven't used them in years. I would try (1) for starters.... Hmmm instead of sax, try issuing yast and going to 'hardware' and then 'graphics card and montor'. Might be a better way to get there.

On Sunday 16 October 2005 04:53 pm, Syv Ritch wrote:

I can change the size and frequencies of the monitor or the monitor, but not the video card!

That's where size and freq get changed! So change them.

On Sunday 16 October 2005 08:14 pm, Syv Ritch wrote:

Bruce Marshall wrote: <SNIP>

But my problem [I think] is that it's the wrong video card. X freezes completely, including the keyboard [no led, no alt-ctrl-backspace....]

How can changing the frequency solve the keyboard problem.

From "man sax2": -m card X=module,card X=module,... Set driver module to use for card X You can specify one driver module for each card detected. You can specify which card (module) to use as in the following: sax2 -m 0=nv -- Louis Richards