Hi All,

I'm a complete novice with lunix but very curious about the OS.

I recently installed SUSE 10.1 on my computer, other that some initial partitioning issues everything seemed to install without any problems. I installed disks 1-3 and all seemed fine.

Upon the first boot everything seems to load as it should but then nothing but a black screen. I'm confused as during the installation my display worked fine but after the complete installation and first boot noting on screen.

My suspicion is that this is some sort of display driver issue. Looking at the open suse site on issues with ati cards just make my head spin as I know nothing about lunix. I have done some other searches but to be honest the more I search the more confused I get.

I'm using a powermac G4 with an ATI Radeon 9000 pro card with a 17" apple studio display.

Anyone able to point me in the right direction with this? Also, I know this is probably a really stupid question but how do you get to boot into failsafe mode? Is it a combination of keys you press during boot up, if so which ones?

Thanks, much appreciated.

JCG

Hmm, make sure you downloaded the correct .iso for the PowerPC/MAC. Also, did you at least get to a prompt? Did you get any errors during the boot process? What errors do you get?

If you did get to the prompt, try the startx command as a first step and report any errors that may give you.

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Is it possible that the prompt is off the bottom of the screen? With my load of Debian, I was just barely able to see the character mode prompt at the bottom. I hit the "auto" button on my monitor and it resized and recentered the screen. Just a thought.