Solution found. Yippeeeee!
- From: Alan Searle <aj_searle@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 05 Mar 2006 15:39:44 +0100
Hallo Reinhard,
Thanks very much for your tips and, yes, I found that I can use an external monitor. Now I hope that I can go ahead and install SuSE 10 and then sort out the graphics driver for my laptop screen (ATI Radeon X700). And then go ahead to adjust things including setting my resolution to 1280x800. I hope that will be possible.
And one other curious thing has happened: I started with the SuSE 10 LiveDVD and configured my network card to let me get into the Internet. This worked OK but then, when I booted with Windows (and also with Knoppix) I could not get a network connection. Now I am using an external USB Lan adaptor because my on-board card seems to have stopped working. Strange, eh? I imagine it's a hardware issue because changine the settings in an OS (SuSE LiveDVD) can't do anything to the network card itself, can it? Maybe you have an idea?
Anyway, many thanks for helping to get me out of this tight situation.
Regards,
Alan.
Reinhard Gimbel schrieb:
Hello community !.
Ed Hurst wrote:
Alan Searle wrote:
I have been trying to start my laptop (an ASUS Z9200VA) with SuSE 10
LiveDVD but only get a black screen. I think that it is booting OK
but that my video card (ATI mobility radeon X700) is not supported.
To my knowledge, it is supported at 2D, or you can install the fglrx
driver.
That is right. On the other hand >
Alan's problem might not be related to the driver itself but might be
related to some special settings with the video signal.
Alan: I guess your notebook has got a function key to switch between
internal and/or external display, right ? Usually this is the key
combination [Fn]-[F4]. Have you tried to change this setting ? If not
you should try that.
What I now need to do is to get the system up and running with some
kind of minimal display so that I can install the correct driver for
the graphics card.
I tried using 'safe mode' and selecting VGA 800x600 (on boot) but
still got the black screen.
Try 'text mode' -- if this works, you can learn about the console while
waiting for the driver to download and install. If that doesn't work,
it's probably something about the bus system in your laptop along with
lack of support. There are few systems out there for which Linux may not
work at all with generic drivers.
Also note, the LiveCD/DVD from SUSE seems to work differently from the
installable version on some systems.
Recently a similar thread was posted in one of the linux related NGs.
Unfortunately I don't remember in which NG it was (could be also one of
the german groups below de.comp.os.unix.linux.* ...).
Another option you could try is using one of the more generic Xorg
drivers (either "vesa" or "fbdev"). I guess at this time "radeon" is used.
It is a good idea to change into text-only mode. You can do this by
either pressing [Ctrl]-[Alt]-[F1], logging in as user "root" and calling
"init 3" or by adding the kernel/boot option "3" to the boot string.
Therfore you have to press [F2] during the first 8 sec. of the system
start (boot screen is shown).
As soon as you are logged in as root you can create a new Xorg
configuration by calling either
"sax2 -m 0=vesa -V 0:1024x768@60"
or
"sax2 -m 0=fbdev -V 0:1024x768@60"
Next question is which resolution your notebook has ? 1024x768 ?
1280x800 ? Another resolution ?
If the physical resolution is not 1024x768 the screen might look fuzzy
and spoiled (ratio 4:3 vs. 16:10).
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