Hey guys,

All right I just built me a new machine, and I am having issues trying to get suse 10.2 installed on the 2nd drive.

Here is what is going on, I have a duel boot setup, 1 is a sata drive as master that is where windows is at, the 2nd drive is an old IDE drive from my old computer that had windows XP on it, casue I read that suse 10.2 does not like stata drives right at the momment. Well that drive is sitting on the primary slave IDE.

The windows part is working just fine on the sata drive. yes SLI modem is turned on. But when I went to install 10.2 it went though everthing just fine, did online update and everything, when I clicked finish and started to boot into linux....blackscreen with start up sound from linux....

Then I thought maybe it was the sata drive and IDE fighting some how, so I decided to unhook the sata drive and reinstall linux so that windows and linux didn't see either at all. Finsihed the install and blackscreen again with start sound....

Then I thought that it might be casue SLI is turned on, went into bios and told it to run only one card and turned off SLI. Went and booted into linux and bakcscreen with start up sound again..... So after that I decided to try and low format the drive and and reinstall linux with SLI off. thinking maybe 10.2 got configed with 2 cards and it was confusing it. Finsihed the install again and hey what do you know a blackscreen with a start up sound.....

So right now I am stumped, the only thing that I can think of is taking out the 2nd video card and try installing linux again and see if it is a SLI issues. What I am going to try tomarrow is taking out the 2nd video card, and leaving the sata drive unpluged and just installing linux 10.2 by itself. and if that work try hooking up the 2nd card and installing the nvidia driver casue I read somewhere that the new driver does support SLI. I really don't want this computer to be just windows casue I use suse as my main op and just keep windows around for my games. But anyway if anyone has any ideas, PLEASE let me know. and also is the spec on my new machine, if that helps.

MOD - A8N-SLI premium
2gigs of memory
1 sata 160Gig with windows XP,
1 IDE 160gig with trying suse10.2
2 nvida GeForce 7300GT
AMD athlon64 FX57 2.6ghz.

Could it be that SAX is configuring X to a resolution or refresh rate that is outside the range of your monitor?

What does Ctrl + Alt + F1 do? Can you see a terminal screen?

ok I can get into the terminal screen, what I tried was I did wget and downloaded the nvidia driver. Installed the driver, ran sax2, it brought up this thing saying Display 2. Configuration on display 1, sit there for a little bit, and then went into sax2 with 3D enabled. The only thing I could do was click save. After clicking save it did actaully go into the linux KDE desktop, but the icons are missing, start button is not there, but you can click on it and bring up the menu to open up firefox and stuff. It is kind of slow, and the dislpay in different areas are not working right, like the search bar in the start menu is all grabaled and messed up looking.

and when you log off to switch to a new user, it just sit there in a blackscreen..have to hit the PWR button to get out of it and reboot the computer. I also tryed switching out montors and used my old CRT montor, which I like batter casue that LCD was on the 1st LCD's and anything black textured without a white background just sucks trying to see. SO still good old CRTs.

So the only thing that I can think of it saw something to do with the 2 nvidia cards. I guess what I am going to try is taking out the 2nd video card and just turn off the SLI all together, and see if I have the same issues as I am having now. So once again if anyone has any ideas PLEASE let me know.

Thanks


**UPDATE**
I just got done installing linux again with only one video card and the SLI really turned off. Just to let you know it did the same thing....so yea...don't know anymore.

Have you read this?

http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=58498

Looks like it's an NVidia card and x86-64 OS issue.

The solution may be to use another video card manufacturer or try a few tweaks, hacks and luck.

The last bullet point of the post is interesting.

Well I finally got Linux 10.2 on this computer. Now I feel like I can sleep tonight.

I read that article that you posted, Which I do have that Linux kernel. So what I tried was, I removed that 2nd video card, install Linux again for the 100th time. When it got the point where it ask configure the hardware of the computer, I just skipped it and clicked finish. After the computer rebooted it went right into suse 10.2 desktop While things where loading, pop up came up that where asking found new hardware like what it does in windows. Basically it was all of the stuff that I didn't figure in the last step. So I configured the sound, USB, and others. I also did the video on too, and that was dumb on my behalf, after I had to restart the computer and after restart it went to black screen with start up sounds again. About that point that is when it dawned on me, it was when I configured the video with the default stuff from suse 10.2. Like what it said in that article that you posted.

So I started over again, skipped the configure part of the hardware and when the desktop came up and it asked about the video, I just closed it and ignored it. Instantly downloaded the nvidia driver, went into console mode, type in type in init 3, installed the driver, ran the sax2 -r -m 0=nvidia. Like what I did on 10.1. After the install of the driver restarted the GUI interface. and we will have a suse desktop with no black screen! Then after that I turned off the computer and reinstalled the 2nd video card and turned of SLI again. Rebooted the computer and still have a suse desktop!

Thank you for finding that link, or I still probably would of been sitting here, bashing my head on my desk. LOL Sorry for the book again.

suse 10.2 has absolutly no problems with sata drives, wherever you heard that suyse diddnt like sata was very out of date!

i had teh same trouble...

the trick is that when you have installed teh NVIDIA drivers, do not use SAX.

instead form a root prompt run nvidia-settings

set up your screens how you like with that
then safe to config file..


any otehr changes you need to do (like changing teh keyboard layout) shoudl be done by directly editibng the xorg.conf file.


this worked for me fine