Screen goes blank
I'm a newbie to Suse 9.1 personal, but after along time on installation, i have a problem. After loading, on start up, everything looks good until the GUI wants to come up, then the screen turns off. (Literally)
I am using a Compaq Presario 12xl300 laptop, 600mhz Celeron computer. Is there anyway to fix this, or do I need to install another distro? |
You probably have an incorrect /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 configuration - thus if you have the energy to edit this file you'll almost certainly get it going sooner or later, and you'll learn a great deal in the process :)
It will depend a great deal on your monitor and graphic card specs - the first thing I'd do is hunt around the net and find everything you can (resolution, horizontal and vertical refresh rates, graphics card make and model especially). Then switch to another terminal by pressing CTRL-ALT-F3 and login as root (or, just boot up in rescue mode from the start, and login to a terminal from there). You can view your config file by issuing Code:
cd /etc/X11 Code:
cp XF86Config-4 XF86Config-4.bak Cheers, mj |
Thx for the help, it keeps coming back file not found. I am too new to linux.I will try to reload the distro again, as this laptop is very picky. If this doesn't work, it's back to Windows 98. Then I imagine I might sell it on ebay.
Then there will be no Linux in my house. My work must be done in IE (as I cannot get into my works computers), so my main system is XP, and it crashes everyother day. It used to be Mandrake 10.0, and it crashed 1 time in 1 year. I like my laptop, and Open office. I hate Microsoft. I don't know what distro to use as most run soo slooooow. |
Oops, could be because of my small typo... ;) After you've logged in as root, it should have read
Code:
cd /etc/X11 If you have a copy of Knoppix around, it may be worth trying that also. It is pretty good at setting up those XF86Config-4 files, and once you've got it up and running you can easily copy it's config file onto a floppy (it will be in the same place in both distros), and then load it into your SuSE installation - overwriting the existing one there (after backing it up, of course). Cheers, mj |
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