blck screen when booting Suse10.1 on laptop
Hi
Just installed Suse10.1 from a downloaded installation DVD next to WXP on my medion laptop. Installation looked fine, no problems but when I choose Suse from Grub the screen goes black after the fire wall is started. Loading continues and finally there is a tune (Suse loaded completely?) but still a black screen. Messages before the screen went black were: local APIC disabled by bios, enable with "lapic". isapnp: no pnp device found atkbd.c: Spurious ACK on isa0060/serio0.Some program like Xfee86 might be trying to access hardware directly. driver 'sd'needs updating. please use bus-type methods. I have no idea if this is relevant for the problem or not. Running SAX2 in safe mode and saving the test screen parameters did not help. Then I tried change config in SAX2 and found that Suse identified the video card as ATI.RS100 4336, were the card is a RADEON IGP 320M 64,00 MB I have no idea how to proceed from here. Please help. I run Suse with kernel 2.6.16.21 Hardware: Medion laptop Mobile AMD Athlon XP 2600+ Memory 512 MB RADEON IGP 320M 64,00 MB HD 80 GB split in 2 parts: 40 GB WXP and 40 GB (incl. 1GB swap) Suse 10.1 bootloader is GRUB |
There seems to be some problem with SuSE 10.1 and its video components, judging from all of the posts about this kind of thing.
A lot of people have complained about problems with both ATI and Nvidia drivers. All that I can tell you is that when I first installed OpenSuSE v10.1 the screen was unbearably slow. I set the default run level to 3 so that I could log in to the computer in text console mode and play with the X software. I installed an old version of ATI drivers and the problem went away. Then I got the new drivers and my screen went black when I started X. So I went back to the old driver. You might look at your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file. See if there is a section for the video card. The generic driver name for this is radeon. The ATI driver name is fglrx. Here is that section from my xorg.conf. You can see that I am running the fglrx driver, but remember it is the old driver. It is the 08-21-07 driver to be exact. You probably don't need all of those options. This was created by sax2. Code:
Section "Device" |
Thanks for the reply stress_junkie.
I'll use Knoppix to examine the file but I have no idea how to change the driver in Suse when I use Knoppix. I'll have to check the manual so it may take some time. Cheers |
Could not get it working so removed Suse and installed Fedora5.
No problems, up and running with all the applications i need thanks to http://www.stanton-finley.net/fedora...allation_notes. |
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