On 10/2/07, Razi Khaja wrote:

Ive had the same problem, the only screen resolution that I could get to work during install was 600x800. Trying to change the resolution after install gave similar problems.

Im hoping that these problems magically disappear in the GM release.

Razi

I can't even seem to do that. This really surprises me. The flashing screen just won't go away and as I said the entire screen acts like a huge mouse pointer. ie. If I move my mouse the flashing changes drastically and if I'm careful I can make the screen stabalize enough to read it. I'm using an old Gateway monitor on my "new Dell". Could that be the reason? Greg -- Greg Freemyer Litigation Triage Solutions Specialist http://www.linkedin.com/in/gregfreemyer The Norcross Group The Intersection of Evidence & Technology http://www.norcrossgroup.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Now in bugzilla https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=330282 Feel free to vote for it if you think you had the same problem. Greg On 10/2/07, Sunny wrote:

On 10/2/07, Greg Freemyer wrote:

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Anyway, late in the install process my GUI presentation flashes to text mode presentation for a 30-60 seconds, then I got a flashing screen.

I used cntrl-alt-F2 to get a console and brought it down to init 3 just fine. Then I tried "sax2 -l" and after 30-60 seconds I again got a flashing screen.

Moving my mouse around I have the impression that the entire screen is a big mouse pointer?

Greg, I have no solution for your problem, but as someone else also confirmed the problem, I would suggest that you file a bug report with all relevant yast2 and sax log files, so opensuse guys can fix it.

Cheers

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Greg Freemyer wrote:

On 10/2/07, Greg Freemyer wrote:

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Now in bugzilla

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=330282

Feel free to vote for it if you think you had the same problem.

Greg

On 10/2/07, Sunny wrote:

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On 10/2/07, Greg Freemyer wrote:

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Anyway, late in the install process my GUI presentation flashes to text mode presentation for a 30-60 seconds, then I got a flashing screen.

I used cntrl-alt-F2 to get a console and brought it down to init 3 just fine. Then I tried "sax2 -l" and after 30-60 seconds I again got a flashing screen.

Moving my mouse around I have the impression that the entire screen is a big mouse pointer?

Weirdly, after attempting Sax2 numerous times and getting nothing good out of it, I just rebooted the machine. My KDE login screen came right up and I'm working fine.

Truly unexpected. Never even crossed my mind to try a reboot.

The resolution looks good, but when I go to Desktop - Configure to see what resolution I ended up with I get "Your X server is using the RandR extension at version 1.2 or greater which doesn't have any configuration yet."

Are you using the nvidia binary drivers? If so, always use the nvidia-settings to change the values, not YaST or Configure Desktop. I added a 'kdesu' to the front of the menu item, as it works better if you run it as root. -- Jonathan Arnold (mailto:jdarnold@buddydog.org) Linux Brain Dump - Linux Notes, HOWTOs and Tutorials: http://www.linuxbraindump.org Daemon Dancing in the Dark, an Open OS weblog: http://freebsd.amazingdev.com/blog/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On 10/3/07, Greg Freemyer wrote:

On 10/3/07, Jonathan Arnold wrote:

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Greg Freemyer wrote: <snip>

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The resolution looks good, but when I go to Desktop - Configure to see what resolution I ended up with I get "Your X server is using the RandR extension at version 1.2 or greater which doesn't have any configuration yet."

This is the message that I got as well.

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Are you using the nvidia binary drivers? If so, always use the nvidia-settings to change the values, not YaST or Configure Desktop. I added a 'kdesu' to the front of the menu item, as it works better if you run it as root.

This is a vanilla fresh 10.3 RC1 install. No configuration by me at all.

sax2 -p reports: Chip: 0 is -> Intel 965G 00:02:0 0x8086 0x29a2 PCI intel

So I don't think nvidia binary drivers are involved in any way.

Output of sax2 -p reports on my system is as follows: Chip: 0 is -> Intel 915 GM 00:02:0 0x8086 0x2592 PCI i810 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Did you ever get your screen to work?

Yep, I got it to work at a resolution of 800x600 (the default) ... I need 1440x900 aspect ratio 16:10

Mine is working now.

I think the magic was:

sax2 1600x1200 TRY to click your way through the screens and get this accepted even though the display is horrible. reboot

After the reboot I was golden.

I think I will download the GM release tomorrow and try that out sometime. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org