Suse 10.1 Questions - HELP!!
 

I'm somewhat novice to Linux, but I like what it can do. I've used live distros before.

I recently built a new system consisting of an AMD Athlon 64-f55 chip, with dual SLi EVGA GeForce 7600 GS 256MB PCIe cards all on a Asus mobo with a gig of RAM. I tried to install Suse 10.1 with the add-ons and I think the install went thru, but I'm not getting any video just a black screen. Is there an updated driver that I need to install for my video cards during the installation? If not how do I change my resolution? Does this version of Suse support my video cards?

Please Help!

From where does graphics fail? Right from the start (no boot screen), or later, when the desktop is loaded (X-server)? If the first case, try to change the framebuffer setting. On the boot menu, press F3 to get a small command line and enter vga=0x313 (which is 800x600 resolution). If it still doesn't work, try vga=normal. You should get at least a non-graphical output during boot. To get completely into text-only mode, type additionally 3 at the boot menu. From command line, you could start yast and install the nvidia drivers with online update.

X-Server; Suse 10.1
 

Thanks for the suggestions. I will give it a try. I think this problem happens when x-server is supposed to load. I checked open-suse site and it says suse 10.1 is compatible with my video cards. And it should autodect it.

Will changing the resolution solve my x-server problem? If not, how do I fix it?

If the problem occurs when the X-server starts, the best chance is the installation of the Nvidia driver. Changing the framebuffer resolution doesn't help in this case.

http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_d..._1.0-8762.html