Yep, I tried it and it seems the driver doesn't work. I've found instructions on making a package from the drivers at the ATI website, but none of that works. The funny thing is I can vnc into it from another machine, and then I can use the graphical desktop like normal. Too bad those VNC settings won't work on the laptop's own lcd screen, if that makes sense. I guess I need to stick with Kubuntu although I like the SuSE distro the best. If only I could get my belkin f5d7010 wifi card to wor. I'm afraid I'm pretty new to linux and it looks as though linux is pretty hard to learn especially when I make a living at working on Windows computers. -----Original Message----- From: Paul Cartwright [mailto:paul_tbot@pcartwright.com] Sent: Monday, December 19, 2005 8:41 AM To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] Loading SuSE 10.0 on Dell C800 On Mon December 19 2005 9:26 am, egearing@gmail.com wrote:

 Anyone ever try loading SuSE 10.0 onto a Dell Latitude C800?  I've tried, but all I get is a black screen when x loads.  I think the reason is it sees the graphics card as an ATI Rage 128 when it really is an ATI Rage Mobility M4 16M.  Is there anyway to get it configured porperly?  Two other Linux operating systems load X OK.  They are Mandriva LE 2005 w/ a generic VESA driver and also Kubuntu Linux loads X properly.  Any help would be appreciated.  I'm also trying to get a Belkin F5D7010 wireless NIC to work with those but no luck either so I'm hoping SuSE 10.0 will help me solve that problem.   Thanks,

there was a thread not too long ago about ATI video cards. Go to the ATI site and download the driver from them. Normally you go to init 3 and run sax2 to setup video cards, but I think ATI is different... You can try going to init 3 ( so X isn't running) then run sax2 and setup the generic VESA card for a test.. do a google search for ndiswrapper. I will soon have a DELL XPS system, so I'm right behind you with the setup.. -- Paul Cartwright Registered Linux user # 367800 -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com

On Monday 19 December 2005 7:04 pm, Ken Schneider wrote:

Of all of the complaints I see on this list #1 is wireless cards and #2 is graphics setup. Both of which can be blamed on the EOMs for not providing proper drivers for their hardware.

I've had both problems on my Dell Inspiron 1000 laptop but have mostly overcome them. The graphics setup problem wasn't solvable through Sax2; I finally found a post through Google that gave me the right xconfig values. The symptom was a garbled screen full of colorful vertical lines, and I still get that once in a while if something else has gone wrong. When it happens I can't make it go away, not even with Alt-Ctl-Bksp or switching to a different text console; I have to reboot. The wireless card problem I partly solved by using ndiswrapper, but I still need to remove the card when KDE is starting up or shutting down, or when booting. I think there's some kind of IRQ or port conflict. There has to be a way of removing the conflict since Windows does it, but I've had no success at it. I can't solve it with BIOS settings since this machine has only the simplest ones. Paul

Yes, I tried that. No luck, but thanks anyway. -----Original Message----- From: Syv Ritch [mailto:suse@911networks.com] Sent: Monday, December 19, 2005 8:08 PM To: Evan Gearing Cc: Paul_tbot@pcartwright.com; suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] Loading SuSE 10.0 on Dell C800 Evan Gearing wrote:

Yep, I tried it and it seems the driver doesn't work. I've found

Did you follow the instructions of: http://linux.wordpress.com/2005/10/11/suse-100-ati-drivers-installation/ I use them and it works -- Thanks http://www.911networks.com When the network has to work Cisco/Microsoft