Hi, I istalled suse 9.2 on Vmware and it worked a charm

So i decided to install it properly on its own HDD, well it all seemingly installed fine and the updates downloaded and applied with no hiccups, But upon booting for the first time it just hang at a black screen of death. no response from the keyboard the num lock lock could not be turned off.

So I booted in to faill safe mode and it hung this time with text on the screen , the very last line was this
"ReiserFS:hdb2:replayed 11 transactions in 22 seconds"

after 5 minutes on this freeze the monitor turns off and its the black screen of death again

What should i do from here ? I have no clue .


( i disabled all the extra hardware in the Bios, and run it with just the HDD IDE channel enabled , but still the same error . )

Have you tried reinstalling?

several times with a different HDD and alternate SUSE install options, get the same result


I installed Mandrake 10.1 and it went fine, but its ugly and confusing compared to SUSE

have you tried other versions of suse, or contacted suse directly?

i'm downloading the new 9.3 DVD iso release, so fingers crossed the issue with go away

Ok the copy of DVD SUSE9.3 that i downloaded was a LIVE boot (no HDD install version lol )
But interestingly it has exactly the same problem as my HDD installed version does, it goes blank screen and freezes upon initialising the the Video card settings for the GUI (so I think).

If install SUSE manually and change the detected video card settings to a standard VESA type, the install works great and it boots to any GUI with no problems, except at 1280x1024 the text is a tiny bit blurry. So great I think and run the hardware config from within KDE and detect display settings, sure enuff it detects my X600 card and my BenQLCD, so I click finish and a test button pops up, i click that and the screen goes dead, hitting ctrl+alt+backspace gets me back to KDE.

so i dowload and install the rpm of the latest ATI drivers reboot and its all black and frozen again YaST and SaX2 will both load to a black frozen screen with out of sync error on both my LCD and a CRT monitor i tried, I tried both the DVI and VGA outputs on my vid card.

wher do i go from here besides buy a new vid card ?