Re: sax2 freezes system

Hei Reinhard, thank you for stepping in.

To create a Xorg configuration from scratch you should issue one of the
following commands as user "root" in text-only-mode (run-/initlevel 3):

"sax2 -m 0=vesa -V 0:1024x768@60" (for the "vesa"-driver)

That worked OK and I was able to start X and KDE. However, my LCD screen 's native resolution is 1280x1024 so it didn't look good at all. I was able to start Yast and Sax. While trying to set some better resolution screen would go into power saving mode, sometimes it would display "out of range" message. Eventually i managed to freeze it hard and X wouldn't start anymore. I wasn't able to start sax anymore from GUI.

Starting from a command you gave me, I figured out that:
sax2 -m 0=via -V 0:1280x1024@60
gives me pretty good screen. I have xdm and KDE working just fine.

Right now I am writing this on that "recovered" machine, logged remotely to my primary computer where I have Thunderbird already set.

From my point of view this problem is hardware-related. Thus changing
the system at a GUI level might be waste of time ...

Well, I had SUSE 10.0 installed from the same set of discs, until a week ago, without any tweaking. I had few other distros installed during the week, all worked just fine. Right now I can launch Knoppix and SLAX just fine.

Here is the output of commands you listed before:

miralinux:~ # hwinfo --gfxcard
22: PCI(AGP) 100.0: 0300 VGA compatible controller (VGA)
[Created at pci.277]
UDI: /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_1106_7205
Unique ID: VCu0.r9YhzFPmNIC
Parent ID: vSkL.S16qDHSKEeD
SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/0000:01:00.0
SysFS BusID: 0000:01:00.0
Hardware Class: graphics card
Model: "Micro-Star International KM400"
Vendor: pci 0x1106 "VIA Technologies, Inc."
Device: pci 0x7205 "KM400"
SubVendor: pci 0x1462 "Micro-Star International Co., Ltd."
SubDevice: pci 0x7061
Revision: 0x01
Memory Range: 0xe4000000-0xe7ffffff (rw,prefetchable)
Memory Range: 0xea000000-0xeaffffff (rw,non-prefetchable)
Memory Range: 0xeb000000-0xeb00ffff (ro,prefetchable,disabled)
IRQ: 10 (112092 events)
I/O Ports: 0x3c0-0x3df (rw)
Module Alias: "pci:v00001106d00007205sv00001462sd00007061bc03sc00i00"
Driver Info #0:
XFree86 v4 Server Module: via
Extensions: dri
Config Status: cfg=yes, avail=yes, need=yes, active=unknown
Attached to: #11 (PCI bridge)

Primary display adapter: #22
miralinux:~ # lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8378 [KM400/A] Chipset Host Bridge
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 PCI Bridge
00:05.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq 5880 AudioPCI (rev 04)
00:0f.0 RAID bus controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VIA VT6420 SATA RAID Controller (rev 80)
00:0f.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81)
00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81)
00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81)
00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81)
00:10.4 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 86)
00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 ISA bridge [KT600/K8T800/K8T890 South]
00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II] (rev 78)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8378 [S3 UniChrome] Integrated Video (rev 01)
miralinux:~ # lspci -n
00:00.0 Class 0600: 1106:3205
00:01.0 Class 0604: 1106:b198
00:05.0 Class 0401: 1274:5880 (rev 04)
00:0f.0 Class 0104: 1106:3149 (rev 80)
00:0f.1 Class 0101: 1106:0571 (rev 06)
00:10.0 Class 0c03: 1106:3038 (rev 81)
00:10.1 Class 0c03: 1106:3038 (rev 81)
00:10.2 Class 0c03: 1106:3038 (rev 81)
00:10.3 Class 0c03: 1106:3038 (rev 81)
00:10.4 Class 0c03: 1106:3104 (rev 86)
00:11.0 Class 0601: 1106:3227
00:12.0 Class 0200: 1106:3065 (rev 78)
01:00.0 Class 0300: 1106:7205 (rev 01)


As I said, I have correct resolution now. However the screen is shifted to one side and up, windows are kind of too big, they "escape" behind the upper edge of my lcd screen.

I think I need a break from the computer, it's saturday night after all. Will return to tweaking it tomorrow. If you have any idea how to improve from here, I will really appreciate. Like this: :))))

Thank you very much anyway, you have helped me a lot already!!

--
Yours Virtually, Zbigniew A, (from cold, dark and snowy Norway)
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