On Fri, 23 Oct 2009, David C. Rankin wrote:
On Monday 19 October 2009 02:47:43 pm Robert P. J. Day wrote:
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]) <snip> short question: anyone know what the problem is?
Yes, and hopefully yes, the "black screen of death" means that your radeon.ko, (or radeonhd.ko, or fglrx.ko) isn't being loaded. giving your the screen init failure below.
i did eventually track down a solution here: http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/Pages/index.aspx download the linux x86_64 .run file for the intergrated xpress 200 chip, run it to generate an rpm file for my SLES 11 system, install, then drop to runlevel 3 and run "sax2" to set up for my xpress 200m chip. after that, it worked like a charm. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Linux Consulting, Training and Kernel Pedantry. Web page: http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday ======================================================================== -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org