I am running suse 9.1 pro. When KDE started up initially it said that my monitor didn't report its X Y coordinates. Then it asked if I would like to set them manually. This is where the problem starts. Whenever sax2 opens the whole monitor goes black. so I can't configure my monitor or graphics card (nvidia geforce200 mx). My drivers for the monitor and video card are correct and they are both fully supported.

I searched the suse help portal and found a post that said sax2 has a bug that needs updates so the black screen thing will stop but when I install the RPM's it links to, I get an error message (in yast) that says I need libhd.so.4 and i can't continue. So I searched around online and found an RPM for libhd.so.4 but when I tried to install that i had 8 dependency issues, which i bravely ignored only to find that even ignoring those i have another 57 dependency issues and that i would have to revert to older versions of some big parts of the system to continue. I didn't, and still have a 1280 x 1024 resolution (which is too high for my monitor and makes reading the fonts in some programs almost impossible) and a terrible 77hz refresh rate. I'm about to go crazy with all the strobing when i drag or scroll.

Thanks,
Josh M.

If this is a known problem with 9.1 and there is a SuSE sponsored update then you should be able to fix the whole thing through YOU (YaST Online Update). You didn't say it wasn't there, so I'm assuming you didn't try this.

I just installed a new Video Card the other day (ATI cards are not supported in 64 bit environments so I returned mine for an Nvidia) and I temporarily lost my X-server . From the command prompt I typed "yast" (as root) and then selected YOU... I then downloaded and installed (one step) the Nvidia drivers provided by SuSE. After re-booting everything worked great.

In my oppinion you should remove any conflicting packages you have installed and then run YOU (available in YaST).

I hope this helps, and let everyone know when and how you fixed it.

I installed the nvidia driver in init 3 with x windows disabled and it installed, but I wasn given any configuration options....leaving me to still do that in sax2 but it still goes black when i start it up. I think I just going to go back to Fedora. I downloaded version 2 today and am looking forward to seeing what theye improved. I couldn get my audio card to configure properly in version 1, but since I can configure my video card in suse and the audio only works in certain apps, I might as well go back. Plus I feel more comfortable in fedora, despite the more labor intensive installation process for packages.

Thanks,
Josh M.

Any more ideas before I switch back??

init 3
sax2 -m 0=nvidia

I'm having a somewhat similar problem with SuSE 9.1 Personal and SaX2.

I run my monitor at 1600x1200 resolution at 75Khz 60 hz. This works PERFECTLY find on Windows, so I know it's not just the configuration I've chosen.

I get in, get everything setup (I actually went and got the minimum to maximum refresh rates on my monitor and put them in) and get the resolution the way I want it. This is where it gets weird. On the desktops the refresh rates on my monitor are actually 72Khz 62Khz, not what I chose and still have set in SaX2.

I've tried keeping my refresh rates at exactly where I want them for my resolution (no variance) and I've tried giving it the actual settings that came with the monitor. What happens is X freezes up, and completely eats the system.

Anyone have any ideas?

edit

here are the actual stats on the monitor.
Number of Display Colors:
Unlimited


Video Amplifier:
Video clock frequency 200 MHz


Horizontal Frequency:
31- 96 kHz (non- interlaced)


Vertical Frequency:
50- 160 Hz


Maximum Resolution:
1600 x 1200

When I tell SaX2 to set "31- 96 kHz 50- 160 Hz 1600x1200" it wigs out the next time X starts up.


edit


Well. Now I have 1600x1200 running at 71 hz. Everything works alright except when I go to shut down the system I get a bunch of funky colours (symbolizing an invalid scan frequency) and when I do a quick user switch I get a black screen then the system freezes up.