Ok so i just finished installing SUSE 10.0 on a Dell Dimension 5150 desktop PC. It is a pentium 4 and has a Radeon 256 meg vid card. When i boot up linux from GRUB, it finishes loading and then says "Cannot Display This Video Mode". I'm running GNOME as my desktop if that helps at all. Anybody know a soloution to my problem.
* The screen goes black and the error message comes up. I don't have to chance to log in or to asctually view my desktop.

what resolutions are you trying to load? Is this a flat panel? My flats had troubles with standard resolutions.

yes its a flat panel.

I have a basic 17" flat that uses this from /etc/X11/xorg.conf


Section "Monitor"
Identifier "monitor1"
VendorName "Generic"
ModelName "1024x768 @ 70 Hz"
HorizSync 31.5-57.0
VertRefresh 50-70



Then this for the display


Section "Screen"
Identifier "screen1"
Device "device1"
Monitor "monitor1"
DefaultColorDepth 24

Subsection "Display"
Depth 8
Virtual 1024 768
EndSubsection

Subsection "Display"
Depth 15
Virtual 1024 768
EndSubsection

Subsection "Display"
Depth 16
Virtual 1024 768
EndSubsection

Subsection "Display"
Depth 24
Virtual 1024 768
EndSubsection
EndSection

Don't know if that will help....

Good luck.

Make sure your refresh rates in /etc/X11/xorg.conf are correct with your particular monitor. Also, you can try running Sax2 and set the default resolution to something lower than the default and see if that will help.

umm i'm just wondering how i can actually edit these files... i'm new to linux and i'm not sure how to open those files and edit them if i can't actually get onto my desktop.

Select Failsafe mode from the boot options that will load you into the command line mode. Login under root (you normally shouldn't run as root, but for this time while just fixing this it is ok)

after you login, type Sax2 and hit enter.

under the monitor section look for resolution and change it to something lower like 1024 x 768 for now. You can always change it later.

Click OK and a box will pop up asking you to test, save or cancel, since you are only changing the resolution, you can probably just hit save and it will save the settings.

Once back at the command line type init 5 and hit enter and it should start your GUI.

If that doesn't work, post back and we will work on editing the horizontal sync and vertical refresh rates.

i have a little problem. when i open SaX2, it freezes. After about 10 seconds, it just freezes wether i click anything or not. There are 2 options "Change Configuration", "Accept(or something like that)", and "cancel". "Change Configuration" is highlighted, so i tried presssing space, enter and clicking it. All times it froze. I tried a run where i click nothing, but continually move the mouse at 1 sec intervals. It froze then also. Any idea what is causing this?