Screen goes black immediately after kernel is loaded
Hi! I am trying to install Suse 10.0 on a box with a MSI K8T Neo-V mainboard. When I use older graphics boards (like Riva TNT based or GeForce 2), it works fine. Recently, I tried a ATI Radeon 9600 which caused a black screen in the same second the kernel finishes loading. I thought the gfx board was faulty and exchanged it with a new XFX GeForce 6200 AGP. But the same thing happened. Windows XP works fine on this box. Suse 10 as mentioned leads to a black screen directly after the kernel has loaded. Also in failsafe. Even older Knoppix 2.6 kernels do the same thing. Only a old Knoppix 2.4 Kernel would boot, but only with "failsafe". If anyone has any hints... please, please tell me. The guy for whom I configure this box finally wants to switch to linux and I don't want to let him down... Thanks a lot. pb
On Monday 27 February 2006 08:18, psychic blue wrote:
Hi!
I am trying to install Suse 10.0 on a box with a MSI K8T Neo-V mainboard. When I use older graphics boards (like Riva TNT based or GeForce 2), it works fine. Recently, I tried a ATI Radeon 9600 which caused a black screen in the same second the kernel finishes loading. I thought the gfx board was faulty and exchanged it with a new XFX GeForce 6200 AGP. But the same thing happened.
Windows XP works fine on this box.
Suse 10 as mentioned leads to a black screen directly after the kernel has loaded. Also in failsafe. Even older Knoppix 2.6 kernels do the same thing. Only a old Knoppix 2.4 Kernel would boot, but only with "failsafe".
If anyone has any hints... please, please tell me. The guy for whom I configure this box finally wants to switch to linux and I don't want to let him down...
Thanks a lot.
pb
Hi .. Not that it is of any use to you but i got a brand new Compaq Presario lappy V5000 series that does exactly the same on an ATI graphics chip and am still waiting for a usefull response .. Pete . -- The Labour party has changed there emblem from a rose to a condom as it more accuratley reflects the governments political stance. A condom allows for inflation halts production destroys the next gereration, protects a bunch of pricks, and givesyou a sense of security while you are actually bieng fucked from GSM
Am Montag, 27. Februar 2006 10:07 schrieb Peter Nikolic:
On Monday 27 February 2006 08:18, psychic blue wrote:
Hi!
I am trying to install Suse 10.0 on a box with a MSI K8T Neo-V mainboard. When I use older graphics boards (like Riva TNT based or GeForce 2), it works fine. Recently, I tried a ATI Radeon 9600 which caused a black screen in the same second the kernel finishes loading. I thought the gfx board was faulty and exchanged it with a new XFX GeForce 6200 AGP. But the same thing happened.
Windows XP works fine on this box.
Suse 10 as mentioned leads to a black screen directly after the kernel has loaded. Also in failsafe. Even older Knoppix 2.6 kernels do the same thing. Only a old Knoppix 2.4 Kernel would boot, but only with "failsafe".
If anyone has any hints... please, please tell me. The guy for whom I configure this box finally wants to switch to linux and I don't want to let him down...
Thanks a lot.
pb
Hi ..
Not that it is of any use to you but i got a brand new Compaq Presario lappy V5000 series that does exactly the same on an ATI graphics chip and am still waiting for a usefull response ..
Pete .
-- The Labour party has changed there emblem from a rose to a condom as it more accuratley reflects the governments political stance.
A condom allows for inflation halts production destroys the next gereration, protects a bunch of pricks, and givesyou a sense of security while you are actually bieng fucked
from GSM
Check out the entry for the Acer 4100WMLi on the opensuse hardware compatibility page, modern ATi graphics chipsets aren't supported by the OSS radeon drivers, I believe ATi stopped issuing information on the chipsets so supporting the chips is difficult to say the least. The official ATi drivers will provide 2D support, but no 3D support for *some* chipsets, I believe ATi plan introducing 2D support for X1nnn series chips sometime later this year, but the Xn00 chips (E.g. X700) should work in 2D mode after the installation of the official ATi fglrx driver... http://en.opensuse.org/HCL/Laptops/Acer The information isn't 100% complete, I'll try and get around to making it a step-by-step guide sometime today... Dave -- "I got to go figure," the tenant said. "We all got to figure. There's some way to stop this. It's not like lightning or earthquakes. We've got a bad thing made by men, and by God that's something we can change." - The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck
On Monday 27 February 2006 11:07, David Wright wrote:
Check out the entry for the Acer 4100WMLi on the opensuse hardware compatibility page, modern ATi graphics chipsets aren't supported by the OSS radeon drivers, I believe ATi stopped issuing information on the chipsets so supporting the chips is difficult to say the least. The official ATi drivers will provide 2D support, but no 3D support for *some* chipsets, I believe ATi plan introducing 2D support for X1nnn series chips sometime later this year, but the Xn00 chips (E.g. X700) should work in 2D mode after the installation of the official ATi fglrx driver...
That's odd. 3d works quite well here on an X700. However it doesn't on my X200 mobility laptop. But 2d is enough there. Both run SUSE 10, The X700 is running the 'official' ATI driver. The laptop is running the whatever drivers out of the box. Mike -- Powered by SuSE 10.0 Kernel 2.6.13 KDE 3.4 Kmail 1.8 For Mondo/Mindi backup support go to http://www.mikenjane.net/~mike 4:08pm up 7 days 21:05, 3 users, load average: 1.49, 1.29, 1.25
Am Montag, 27. Februar 2006 16:13 schrieb Mike:
On Monday 27 February 2006 11:07, David Wright wrote:
Check out the entry for the Acer 4100WMLi on the opensuse hardware compatibility page, modern ATi graphics chipsets aren't supported by the OSS radeon drivers, I believe ATi stopped issuing information on the chipsets so supporting the chips is difficult to say the least. The official ATi drivers will provide 2D support, but no 3D support for *some* chipsets, I believe ATi plan introducing 2D support for X1nnn series chips sometime later this year, but the Xn00 chips (E.g. X700) should work in 2D mode after the installation of the official ATi fglrx driver...
That's odd. 3d works quite well here on an X700. However it doesn't on my X200 mobility laptop. But 2d is enough there. Both run SUSE 10,
The X700 is running the 'official' ATI driver. The laptop is running the whatever drivers out of the box.
Mike
-- Powered by SuSE 10.0 Kernel 2.6.13 KDE 3.4 Kmail 1.8 For Mondo/Mindi backup support go to http://www.mikenjane.net/~mike 4:08pm up 7 days 21:05, 3 users, load average: 1.49, 1.29, 1.25
Hmm maybe it is the Mobility versions that ATi haven't bothered to cater for then... Why they make it all so hard compared to nVidia I don't know :-( Dave -- "I got to go figure," the tenant said. "We all got to figure. There's some way to stop this. It's not like lightning or earthquakes. We've got a bad thing made by men, and by God that's something we can change." - The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck
On Monday 27 February 2006 16:32, David Wright wrote:
That's odd. 3d works quite well here on an X700. However it doesn't on my X200 mobility laptop. But 2d is enough there. Both run SUSE 10,
The X700 is running the 'official' ATI driver. The laptop is running the whatever drivers out of the box.
Hmm maybe it is the Mobility versions that ATi haven't bothered to cater for then... Why they make it all so hard compared to nVidia I don't know :-(
I have a feeling you are right. My laptop has both the ati graphics, and the ati chipset. I gave up trying at least for now. Mike -- Powered by SuSE 10.0 Kernel 2.6.13 KDE 3.4 Kmail 1.8 For Mondo/Mindi backup support go to http://www.mikenjane.net/~mike 6:37pm up 7 days 23:34, 3 users, load average: 1.27, 1.25, 1.22
Am Montag, 27. Februar 2006 10:07 schrieb Peter Nikolic:
On Monday 27 February 2006 08:18, psychic blue wrote:
Hi!
I am trying to install Suse 10.0 on a box with a MSI K8T Neo-V mainboard. When I use older graphics boards (like Riva TNT based or GeForce 2), it works fine. Recently, I tried a ATI Radeon 9600 which caused a black screen in the same second the kernel finishes loading. I thought the gfx board was faulty and exchanged it with a new XFX GeForce 6200 AGP. But the same thing happened.
Windows XP works fine on this box.
Suse 10 as mentioned leads to a black screen directly after the kernel has loaded. Also in failsafe. Even older Knoppix 2.6 kernels do the same thing. Only a old Knoppix 2.4 Kernel would boot, but only with "failsafe".
If anyone has any hints... please, please tell me. The guy for whom I configure this box finally wants to switch to linux and I don't want to let him down...
Thanks a lot.
pb
Hi ..
Not that it is of any use to you but i got a brand new Compaq Presario lappy V5000 series that does exactly the same on an ATI graphics chip and am still waiting for a usefull response ..
Pete .
-- The Labour party has changed there emblem from a rose to a condom as it more accuratley reflects the governments political stance.
A condom allows for inflation halts production destroys the next gereration, protects a bunch of pricks, and givesyou a sense of security while you are actually bieng fucked
from GSM
OK, I've updated the HCL page with a step-by-step guide. Please let me know if there are any problems with the guide... http://en.opensuse/HCL/Laptops/Acer Dave -- "I got to go figure," the tenant said. "We all got to figure. There's some way to stop this. It's not like lightning or earthquakes. We've got a bad thing made by men, and by God that's something we can change." - The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck
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