It's notebook HP Pavilion ze4101.....
I am brand new to LINUX (can't take win anymore....).
OS is SuSe 9.1
Video card is as stated above........
Just can't get it to work; in X11 all fonts are not readable, icons are damaged (graphics)......
I am very new to LINUX; I do not really know what to post; I do post abot it, just something to get it started. I need someone to hook me up and HELP....... Please

Thanks
bertik

Try using the vesa driver instead of the radeon or ati driver. I've never had a problem with the vesa driver. No 3d, but everything else is ok.

Where can get a VESE driver, or where is it located in the system?

When I run YaST from a command line I can see that I can change it there to run VESA. But the problem is it's asking me to save the modification somewhere and I do not have any idea where to save it?
Like I said I am very new to LINUX.

Thanks for any help
Bertik

Can you change your X configuration in YaST? If so, just go through the process, choosing the vesa driver for your card. At the end it should save your configuration. If it asks if you want it to save it, say yes. The X configuration is saved in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4
You can alter this file directly from the command line using a text editor. I like to use joe, but you can use any text editor.
To use joe (assuming you have it installed) just open a terminal window, become root (type su then the root password when prompted) and type joe /etc/X11/XF86Config-4
This will open the file for editing. Scroll down to Section "Device" and change the driver name in quotes to "vesa" then save and close by hitting ctrl K then X. Restart your X session by hitting ctrl-alt-backspace and let us know how it turns out.
If you don't have joe, use any other text editor, but you have to be root to alter the XF86Config file.

WOW Thanks A LOT.
I have modified XF86Config like 10 times before I hit the right modification. Once I had refresh rate 75Hz for LCD screen; I am glad I did not burn it out. I had to modify
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Layout[all]
InputDevice "Keyboard[0]" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Mouse[1]" "CorePointer"
Option "Xinerama" "off"
Screen "Screen[vga]"
EndSection

I have changed to
Screen "Screen[vesa]"

Before this the screen was 640x480 (could not see there anything).
Now its nice all over with 1024x768.
Fonts are still not readable though. When I boot up, I can see an error about font. I will dig it up in log file and post, maybe you can help me with this guys also (I am sure I will need much more help :-) ).
Anyway, thank you very much for all your help.
bertik

edit: and thanks for "joe" editor hint, nice and simple. vi is really confusing.

I am using XFree86 Version 4.3.99.902 (4.4.0 RC2)
OS SuSE 9.1 linux 2.6.4-52

This is from kdm.log

[QUOTE]
Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype/, removing from list!
Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/URW/, removing from list!
/root/.xsession-errors
SetClientVersion: 0 8
SetClientVersion: 0 8
SetGrabKeysState - disabled
[QUOTE]

Sorry, haven't seen that one. Not sure what to do about it. Maybe try to install truetype fonts in YaST. I can't remember if there's a place to do it there. Check it out and let us know.

I have installed all fonts I could find in YaST but no go....

But I found this on the net http://c133.org/ze4420/ati-agp-2.6.0-test2.patch

I just do not know what to do about it. How do I apply the patch?
Please?

patch -p1 ati-agp-2.6.0-test2.patch

then recompile kernel

I did run the command to patch it, but it did not said anything after the patch.
I mean, should it say something like patch succesfylly applied or so?
Also it seems I am not able to recompile kernel. I am following this nice how to http://www.digitalhermit.com/linux/K...ild-HOWTO.html but I am lost. I am very newbie to all this.
I am going to give it more tryes and I will let you know how I am doing.

Is there a way to recompile kernel using YaST?

The 2.6 kernels are easy to recompile...compared to the 2.4 kernel.

su (to become root)
cd /usr/src/linux
make xconfig (you may have to use make menuconfig instead)
(save and exit)
make
make modules_install
make install

You shouldn't need to make any changes, but feel free to look around at what's in the kernel while in xconfig (or menuconfig). The help notes in the kernel give some information in the kernel configuration.

If you use lilo, don't forget to run lilo after compiling the kernel.

Thanks a lot Cedar....

I found out that I have not installed any packages (or commands) to run kernel compilation. I tought it's gonna be there automatically. It took me couple of hours to figure this out :-) ; finaly I have installed all of them Yesterday and tonight I am going to try to recompile.

Hmmm.....
After a recompilation I can see that the patch did something. In a non graphics mode the screen is 1024x768 instead to some 900x760. At the graphics enviroment its's still same think.... Not readable fonts.
I will recompile one or two more times with different patches and will see.
I will let you know....
/Bertik