On Saturday 08 November 2003 05:11, George H. Griffin wrote:
Has anybody ever got linux to run properly on this model? I am currently trying to get SuSE 9.0 up and running on one without success, the problem seems to be with the Nvidia graphics card (GeForce4 460 Go).
I've checked the support db, linux-on-laptops, and google without finding anything that has worked. When I did the initial install I downloaded the latest nvidia driver during the installation process and got into KDE ok, but the display did not fill the screen (1024 x 780 resolution, in windows the screen is filled at this resolution).
Every time I tried to change any of the settings in Yast (even mouse settings) I'd get a garbled screen when I tested the settings and had to kill the X server with Ctrl-alt-backspace.
I just removed the 4496 driver and replaced it with the 4363 driver and now every time I test the settings in Sax2 the screen is garbled--even using settings that worked with the newer driver so all I have is a consol now.
Possibly related, whenever I'd try to shut the machine down from KDE when it was working it would hang with a garbled screen and never did shutdown, although it would reboot OK when that choice was selected in the shutdown menu.
I'd really like to get SuSE running on this machine so any suggestions are welcome.
Have you tried to switch off ACPI? When the boot screen comes up, type "ACPI=OFF" on the parameter line, without the quotes. See if this solves your problem. SuSE 9 installed without any problems on Toshiba Satellite 2450-201 with nVidia GeForce4 420 Go with 32MB of ram. LW999