Re: Display Problems



Ash wrote:
> i have just installed a fresh copy of SUSE 10.0 on an old 10 gig hdd.
> the logon screen, aswell as the installer displayed perfectly, however, once
> the OS has loaded it is obvious that there is some issue with the video
> card, as everything on the screen is barely ledgeble.

Barely ledgable? What do you mean by that. Describe it as if we can not
see the screen. :-)

> its not the monitor, as i tried an old one lying around which gave the same
> result.
> from what ive read of other postings the nvidia-geforce-fx6600-gt card i
> have should be more than compatible?
> should i give up on old suse, or is there someway i can fix the problem?

[CTRL][ALT][F2] and log in as root. Do `init 3` and then `sax2`. When
all is configured, do `init 5 && exit`

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