i've been fighting with this for the last couple hours, and i'm finally giving up and asking for help. i installed a fresh suse 11 (yes, it's SLES 11 but i have to think this is going to be a general problem since it involves video drivers, but i'm willing to be corrected.) this is on a gateway mx7120 laptop, with a 1280x800 display, and the following snippet from "lspci -v": 01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon XPRESS 200M 5955 (PCIE) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) Subsystem: Gateway 2000 Device 0506 Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 66, IRQ 7 Memory at d4000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M] I/O ports at 9000 [size=256] Memory at d0100000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K] [virtual] Expansion ROM at d0120000 [disabled] [size=128K] Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2 Kernel modules: radeonfb after the install, booting normally gave me nothing but a dark screen, although i could "ssh" in to look around. i could, however, boot in failsafe mode, at which point "xdpyinfo" tells me that i'm running at a resolution of 1024x768, which appears to be the best i can do right now. so, X works fine in failsafe mode but normal mode. short question: anyone know what the problem is? more info: when i boot normally (for which X fails), then ssh in, the tail end of /var/log/Xorg.0.log reads: Fatal server error: AddScreen/ScreenInit failed for driver 0 so it's pretty clear *something* failed badly, and i've been googling on that error to see if i can learn something obvious. i attached the system's xorg.conf file, which i find curious since i didn't change it at all, and it defines a number of modelines, *none* of which match the actual display res of 1280x800. i'm not a video expert so i'm stumped here, and open to suggestions. i've had issues with radeon drivers under fedora for a while -- should i expect the same grief under SUSE? rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry. Web page: http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday ========================================================================