SuSe 10.0 installation problem

Guciacz · 01-21-2006, 12:25 AM

Hi,

I'm trying to install SuSe 10.0 on my laptop but after the installation process, which goes smooth BTW, when I try to run the system it stops with the black screen. It seems like it stops when loading X Server. I played with display settings but it didn't work. Does anyone have any idea what might be wrong? It's an AMD Turion 64-bit with ATI Radeon X700 graphic card. I appreciate any help.

Guciacz

abisko00 · 01-21-2006, 08:21 AM

When you end-up at that black screen, can you change to text console with Ctrl+Alt+F1? If this is the case, login as root and change to runlevel 3 (type init 3), then type sax2 and configure your graphics card. Change back to runlevel 5 with init 5 and see if it works now.

Guciacz · 01-21-2006, 12:00 PM

Yes I've tried that. When I run sax2 I'm also getting a black screen and nothing seems to be working.

abisko00 · 01-23-2006, 02:15 AM

These bloody ATI cards.

I don't have one myself, so my experience is rather theoretical. Have you tried to install the ATI driver? It may be a bit tricky for a newbie to do this from command line.

Maybe you could play first with the sax2 parameters (specify card and driver). See man sax2 for details.

You could also get problems if you have two graphic adapters (like one onboard + the ATI card). Then you need to specify which one you would like configure or de-activate the onboard card in the systems BIOS.

Guciacz · 01-23-2006, 03:39 PM

Thanks, for your support. I fixed the problem installing the driver manually. I don't know but I've read that SuSE is supposed to support this card, but actually it does not. But well, at least it's working now.

manjushp · 01-27-2006, 10:52 PM

u have not mentioned how u fixed it? i could help me in fixing a similar problem

Guciacz · 01-28-2006, 07:34 PM

Hi,
I installed new drivers from www.ati.com After installation run sax2 and configure the desired resolution. That would be pretty much about it.

Cheers,
Guciacz

fernley · 01-31-2006, 03:45 PM

It might be helpful to other to know that I had a similar problem with a desktop machine with an NVidia graphics card. I booted into the safe mode option which avoids loading the X windows. I then used sax2 choosing the lowest resolutions etc I could to get any sort of X windows running and then changed it using Yast.

void_linux · 02-03-2006, 05:25 PM

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Originally Posted by manjushp

u have not mentioned how u fixed it? i could help me in fixing a similar problem

If the regular "sax2" doesn't work with an ATI chipset, it often helps to try run sax2 with a vesa setting. Specifically, "sax2 -m 0=vesa", assuming there is only one graphic chipset. One can type sax2 -p to see what graphic chipsets one has. If one has both chipset 0 and chipset 1 (where, say 0 is the motherboard graphic and 1 is the graphic card), then one should disable the motherboard graphic in BIOS, and instead use "sax2 -m 1=vesa".