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I have just installed Suse 10.2 which installed successfully.
On the first boot I get a blank screen after the OS selection screen.
My set has a Albatron k8sli mainboard with amd Athlon xp 64 3500+ cpu, two Albatron sli PC6800 video cards installed and a Chimei 19" wide screen LCD monitor.
The same problem occured when I installed suse 10.1, but by booting in runlevel 3 and modifying xorg.conf to vesa instead of Nvidia in the driver section it ran fine.
That mod does not seem to work in Suse 10.2.
Any help on how to fix this problem wil be greatly appreciated.
Have you considered using the driver for the card available from www.nvidia.com? That would be a serious improvement either way, as those are some pretty high powered video cards
Sounds like besides that, your xorg.conf file needs a bit of work.. Perhaps posting it here would help!
PS - are you running the computer in 32 or 64 bit mode?
I have just installed Suse 10.2 which installed successfully.
On the first boot I get a blank screen after the OS selection screen.
My set has a Albatron k8sli mainboard with amd Athlon xp 64 3500+ cpu, two Albatron sli PC6800 video cards installed and a Chimei 19" wide screen LCD monitor.
The same problem occured when I installed suse 10.1, but by booting in runlevel 3 and modifying xorg.conf to vesa instead of Nvidia in the driver section it ran fine.
That mod does not seem to work in Suse 10.2.
Any help on how to fix this problem wil be greatly appreciated.
I am also having the same problem with amd 64 2800+,k8v-vm asus board,512 ram and 17" lg tft monitor please give me seggetion.
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Have you considered using the driver for the card available from www.nvidia.com? That would be a serious improvement either way, as those are some pretty high powered video cards
Sounds like besides that, your xorg.conf file needs a bit of work.. Perhaps posting it here would help!
PS - are you running the computer in 32 or 64 bit mode?
Sorry for missing details & thanks for the speedy reply.
the system is dual booted with windows XP in 32 bit, Suse 10.1 & 10.2 in 64 bit mode. all are on separate partitions.
I used the sucessful xorg.conf from suse 10.1 in suse 10.2 but no luck.
If I boot suse 10.2 with irqpoll nolapic noapic I get to the login screen but after logging in, the screen shows a duplicated split image of my normal screen which locks up at that point.
I would post both xorg.conf files if I knew how.I'm still a bit new to all of this.
I believe of you dig a little deeper, and check out the nvidia website, you will find that 64bit may be the root of the problem. Don't quote me there, but check into that. It might be the issue, that 64bit is not yet fully supported or functional in all aspects.
For your reference, the xorg.conf file is located in /etc/X11 and the log file is in /var/log. To post them, just open them in a text editor, copy or hit 'select all' and copy, then paste them into a post.
I have had some success with the nvidia driver.
As I still could not use suse 10.2, my set Being dual booted I used suse 10.1, downloaded the driver from the nvidia site for 64 bit AMD, mounted the partition for suse 10.2 & dropped the file there.
I then booted Using using suse 10.2 in runlevel 3 and followed the instructions as per "the hard way" on the opensuse site http://en.opensuse.org/NVIDIA.
On rebooting all was still not well but after editing the xorg.conf file to replace "nv" with "nvivia" in the device section for both cards, every thing now seems fine.
Excellent, I'm glad you got it sorted out
A few tips for you:
1-- Any time you change or recompile the kernel, you will almost always need to re-install the nvidia driver.
2-- I am aware that the procedure is different for SuSE than for many other systems, and I have no experience with SuSE, but the nvidia README web-pages and downloadable files are excellent.
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