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kfranc9

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Hello everyone. I visited my college's Linux User Group install fest today, unfortunately I still have some problems:

When I boot on my monitor (i used a better one @ setup), Suse begins to load but my monitor blanks out and asks me to check my display settings once i get to the login screen. I can press Ctrl+Alt+F1 to use the command line, but I don't have enough experience to change my resolution that way.

Boot loader: GRUB
OS: Suse Personal 9.1 x86_64
 
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MNKyDeth

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You could do what n0cmonkey said or you can do it my way. Just incase one of the ways does not work you have a 2nd option ;)

Most distro's come with vim wich is a cli text editor. At the command line as root type vi /etc/X11/XF86Config or vi /etc/X11/xorg.conf
It all depends wich X system you are using.
Now you need the horizontal and vertical refresh rate specs for your monitor. You will look for these lines in the file.
HorizSync 30-95
VertRefresh 50-160

Put in your monitors specific refresh rate range. Then you want to scroll more toward the bottom of the file and look for this section.
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen 1"
Device "GFFX 5900se"
Monitor "Sceptre D77D"
DefaultDepth 24

Subsection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
Subsection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
Subsection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1280x1024"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection

If you have the DefaultDepth set to 24 it will use the section that is labled with the Depth 24. Set your resolution you want to use there. It only needs one set resolution and does not need them all listed.

With vi in order to edit the file just hit the insert key and start editing parts of the file that you would like, as per my examples above.
When you are done editing hit the esc key and then hit the shift+colon key at the same time. Then type wq to write and quit then hit the enter key and it should write and save the file. It should have dropped you back to cli at this point. Try getting into X at this point to see if it worked.

GL,
MNKyDeth
 
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Zelmo3

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OMG, it doesn't have to be as involved as all that. Back up the file like n0c said, then run sax2 to get SuSE's X configurator. It will auto-detect most of the settings, but have your monitor timings handy just to check it.
 
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n0cmonkey

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Originally posted by: Zelmo3
OMG, it doesn't have to be as involved as all that. Back up the file like n0c said, then run sax2 to get SuSE's X configurator. It will auto-detect most of the settings, but have your monitor timings handy just to check it.
Click to expand...

I knew SuSE Would have an easy way to accomplish this. :D
 
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numb

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I suppose there's gonna be a whole lot of suse questions coming in. Those "linux technical resource kits" finally shipped.
 
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NuNuNYC

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mmm. just what i needed.. having the same problem now... SuSe is loading and at 99%, the screen blacks out and then displays that SuSe bar at 99%... If I hit F2 for details... It says something about run level at 6 now at 5.... and asks me for my login/pass... hopefully this fix should load up my KDE GUI (windows look-alike) :)
 
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NuNuNYC

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i think my problem is not related to his... last I can remember going into KDE was installing ATI Radeon 9800 Drivers for Linux based on the Xfree86 4.3.0 version. When I ran Check.sh, my version was actually 4.3.xx.xx, but I figured I could install it fine. I think that's what my problem is now. I get the following error when trying to run startx:

RADEON: No matching device section for instance (BusID PCI:1:0:1) found
Fatal server error:
Cannot run in framebuffer mode. Please specify busIDs for all framebuffer devices.

I also tried doing what MNKyDeth with vi XF86Config and xorg.conf, but both seem to be empty files.. Also had a helluva time trying to just escape out of the text editor without the computer beeping at me a million times..

Anyone know how to recover old video card settings?
 
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NuNuNYC

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guess i figured out my own problem... =T All I had to do was rpm -e fglrx-4.3.0-3.14.1 and it worked like magic!! =D stock KDE drivers are fine for me until I become from linux noob to linux novice
 
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