Hi,

I have a AMD Athlon 64 and am trying to install Debian 3.1r0a (Sarge) alongside SUSE 9.2. SUSE is already installed. There are 2 60 GByte IDE hard drives. Both are on one channel (/dev/hda and /dev/hdb). The graphics card is a GeForce MX4000 AGP 8x with 64 MBytes of memory. The monitor is a 17" Dell 1703FP LCD. I am having the following problems.

1) When I do the install I get to a screen which asks me for a driver for the xserver. There are many options. I have tried a vga, vesa (default), and nv. The vga option didn't work. The other 2 won't allow a resolution better than 800x600. The optimum monitor resolution is 1280x1024 although it does support even better resolutions. What should I choose for the xserver driver?

2) The Debian installation does detect the SUSE OS. However, after installing Debian, the SUSE OS is broken. I can select it and start it, but it doesn't work properly. I don't get a graphics screen. The "startx" command also won't put me in the graphics mode. I have booted with the SUSE disk and "repaired" the installation. This allows me access to SUSE but not Debian. How do I get SUSE and Debian working together. Would overwriting the SUSE installation with Debian and then installing SUSE work?

Ed

Use the nv driver for xserver, then install the driver from nvidia or the nvidia-glx package.
Here is a good page for installing the nvidia drivers http://home.comcast.net/~andrex/Debi...tallation.html

Look at the files /boot/grub/menu.lst of both distro's and put the same entry in both for the other OS changing the hd0,0 entry's as needed, you probally are using the SUSE boot loader now.