Hi,

I just installed Suse 10.1. The install went fine until it reached hardware configuration. The screen then went black. I restarted and got to the desktop. I went into Yast and was able to configure sound and the printer. I then went to SaX2, to attempt to configure monitor and video card and that is when the screen went black again. Am I correct in assuming that this is a video card issue? I have a ATI Rage XL card and a 19" Dell monitor on a HP Pavilion. Can anyone please point me to the next step I would need to take to get the video card and monitor recognized and configured.

Thanks
Frank

1) Turn on the computer and on the boot menu highlight SUSE, press F2 to bring up the boot options and type the number 3, then press enter.
2) When the screen comes up login as root.
3) Next type the following without quotation marks "mcedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf"
4) Scroll down the new screen till you see DEVICE and "Radeon". Replace "Radeon" with "vesa", then save and exit.
5) Reboot by typing without quotation marks "reboot", and let it boot normally into SUSE. You should now have a working gui. Go to www.ati.com to get the latest drivers for your machine and install following ati instructions.

Hi Rkiver,

Thanks for the reply,I apologize for not being more clear in statement of my problem. At this point I have a GUI desktop. The problem is that if I launch Yast and try to go to the icon that handles the configuration of the monitor and the video card, that is the point where the screen goes black. I guess I am asking this question.If I am able to obtain the ATI drivers will I then be able to get Sax2 to work so I can configure monitor resolution and video card? At this point I have only one screen resolution which is 1280 X 764 I think. I am typing this response from my XP side. The suse install is a dual boot so that is why I am not sure of the resolution at the moment. Thanks for any input that you might have.

Thanks
Frank

Hi,
I made some progress on the ATI graphic installation, however I have run into a block. I managed to create the ATI rpm for SUSE 10.1. However, when I tried to install it I received a message that said libexpat.so.0 needed to be installed before the drivers could be installed. I searched the net and found references that said this file has been dropped. I tried to download an rpm for expat-1.95-1.i386 rpm. When I tried an install of that file, in resolving dependencies it indicated that a whole bunch of files had to be removed basically crippling Gnome which is my default desktop. Does anyone have any idea of how I might resolve this problem. Do I have to go to an older version os Suse to get ATI drivers installed? Any input would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks
Frank