[opensuse] Can't get monitor to display properly after install - Please help
I'm still trying to get my Samsung 225bw monitor and ATI RADEON SXPRESS 200 Series Card to install properly. The strangest thing is that the ATI setup package has left my monitor in a state where it just displays trashy colored lines. The display works fine through the install process. The first couple times I installed SuSE 10.1, the monitor worked fine; just in the wrong mode (non-widescreen). Now I can't get finish the install without it going into that trashy line mode. I've tried countless variations of VESA and LCD setting and nothing seems to work. On a reboot from a terminal window also displays properly during the shutdown and reload processes. Is it possible that a bad setting is surviving the new install's formatting the hard drive? I'm really tearing my hair out over this one. TIA Jim mmmmmmmmmmmmmm -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Thursday 25 January 2007 09:20, Jim Sabatke wrote:
The strangest thing is that the ATI setup package has left my monitor in a state where it just displays trashy colored lines. The display works fine through the install process. The first couple times I installed SuSE 10.1, the monitor worked fine; just in the wrong mode (non-widescreen). Now I can't get finish the install without it going into that trashy line mode.
I assume you are trying to install 10.1 It took me a *week* to get 10.1 to use my ATI card and I almost gave up on 10.1 because of it. I finally: 1) I finally downloaded the ATI binary driver. 2) Used the xorg.conf from the install to at least have something that would work while I tried to configure. 3) Ran sax2 which put the screen into a pretty unreadable mode. 4) Thru guess and trial-by-error I made some selections that finally set my LCD up properly. (1600x1200 was what I needed but all I could get out of the install was 1280x1024) I did get it to work but I immediately switched cards to an NVidia and I haven't looked back. Getting rid of all of my ATI cards. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Bruce Marshall wrote:
On Thursday 25 January 2007 09:20, Jim Sabatke wrote:
The strangest thing is that the ATI setup package has left my monitor in a state where it just displays trashy colored lines. The display works fine through the install process. The first couple times I installed SuSE 10.1, the monitor worked fine; just in the wrong mode (non-widescreen). Now I can't get finish the install without it going into that trashy line mode.
I assume you are trying to install 10.1
Yes, I neglected to mention that.
It took me a *week* to get 10.1 to use my ATI card and I almost gave up on 10.1 because of it.
I'm almost there myself.
I finally:
1) I finally downloaded the ATI binary driver. 2) Used the xorg.conf from the install to at least have something that would work while I tried to configure. 3) Ran sax2 which put the screen into a pretty unreadable mode. 4) Thru guess and trial-by-error I made some selections that finally set my LCD up properly. (1600x1200 was what I needed but all I could get out of the install was 1280x1024)
I did get it to work but I immediately switched cards to an NVidia and I haven't looked back. Getting rid of all of my ATI cards.
I can't even get the binary driver to work. The best looking screen I can get is totally black (except for a little window that says I should be in the 1680 x 1050 mode that stays on the screen for a few minutes). I see an nvidia in my near future. Thanks, Jim -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Thursday 25 January 2007 13:41, Jim Sabatke wrote:
I can't even get the binary driver to work. The best looking screen I can get is totally black (except for a little window that says I should be in the 1680 x 1050 mode that stays on the screen for a few minutes).
That little window is probably put up by your monitor.... and it is teilling you the 'native' resolution that you want to be in. You might search the archives. I wrote a lot of info back around the middle of Oct when I was doing this. I just looking in my /etc/X11 and I have a bunch of xorg.conf files in there: -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5356 2006-12-13 18:46 xorg.conf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5283 2006-05-21 20:02 xorg.conf.1280 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5685 2006-05-25 15:18 xorg.conf.ati1 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5356 2006-12-13 18:46 xorg.conf.backup -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5759 2006-05-25 16:54 xorg.conf.fglrx-0 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5209 2005-10-12 11:18 xorg.conf.install What I think I did was to use the install xorg in order to give sax something to work with. And as I said, even then I could just barely read the sax config screen and had to pretty much guess what I was doing. Things really should be a lot better now (one would think) because when I was trying to use the binary driver.... ATI hadn't yet put out a driver that was made for 10.1. I would think that they would have a better one now. But I've never had problems with NVidia.... (and I know the guy who works on the driver code) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
I finally gave up on the ATI binary driver. It left the screen totally unreadable and I couldn't find a setting that worked. Went out and bought an nvidia card and it's driver install set me up perfectly. Thanks for all the help. Jim Bruce Marshall wrote:
On Thursday 25 January 2007 13:41, Jim Sabatke wrote:
I can't even get the binary driver to work. The best looking screen I can get is totally black (except for a little window that says I should be in the 1680 x 1050 mode that stays on the screen for a few minutes).
That little window is probably put up by your monitor.... and it is teilling you the 'native' resolution that you want to be in.
You might search the archives. I wrote a lot of info back around the middle of Oct when I was doing this.
I just looking in my /etc/X11 and I have a bunch of xorg.conf files in there:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5356 2006-12-13 18:46 xorg.conf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5283 2006-05-21 20:02 xorg.conf.1280 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5685 2006-05-25 15:18 xorg.conf.ati1 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5356 2006-12-13 18:46 xorg.conf.backup -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5759 2006-05-25 16:54 xorg.conf.fglrx-0 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5209 2005-10-12 11:18 xorg.conf.install
What I think I did was to use the install xorg in order to give sax something to work with. And as I said, even then I could just barely read the sax config screen and had to pretty much guess what I was doing.
Things really should be a lot better now (one would think) because when I was trying to use the binary driver.... ATI hadn't yet put out a driver that was made for 10.1. I would think that they would have a better one now.
But I've never had problems with NVidia.... (and I know the guy who works on the driver code)
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On Thursday 25 January 2007 08:20, Jim Sabatke wrote:
I'm still trying to get my Samsung 225bw monitor and ATI RADEON SXPRESS 200 Series Card to install properly.
The strangest thing is that the ATI setup package has left my monitor in a state where it just displays trashy colored lines. The display works fine through the install process. The first couple times I installed SuSE 10.1, the monitor worked fine; just in the wrong mode (non-widescreen). Now I can't get finish the install without it going into that trashy line mode.
I've tried countless variations of VESA and LCD setting and nothing seems to work.
On a reboot from a terminal window also displays properly during the shutdown and reload processes.
Is it possible that a bad setting is surviving the new install's formatting the hard drive?
I'm really tearing my hair out over this one.
TIA
Jim mmmmmmmmmmmmmm
You may have to add your Samsung 225BW parameters to /usr/share/sax/api/data/cdb/Monitors (edit as root). You'll need the DDC= information from your /var/log/Xorg.0.log and the Hsync and Vsync values. There are plenty of examples in the Monitors file. Make sure you save a backup copy of that Monitor file or your edits because it will get wiped out after any sax/Xorg updates. This will allow you to choose this monitor during sax setup. Helps eliminate some confusion of where the problem is between the video driver and monitor settings. Then make sure you file a bugzilla with the parameters for your monitor so it gets into /usr/share/sax/api/data/cdb/Monitors. Stan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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