Please help. Going quietly mad.

Installing Suse 9.0.

Installation seems to be OK - graphics OK if I set resolution to 1024
X xxxx during installation.

BUT when I rebbot - the graphics are completely garbled. The only way
I can get around this is to re-istall - but any reboot screws the
graphics again.

And another thing - can't seem to do anything with the ethernet - Suse
detects the hardware, but when I try to ping my ADSL modem I just get
"Network unreachable".

I really do not want to go back to Windows....

--
Phil

Phil wrote:

> BUT when I rebbot - the graphics are completely garbled. The only way
> I can get around this is to re-istall - but any reboot screws the
> graphics again.

I had the exact same problem with my SN41G2. The work around was to hit
CTRL-ALT-DEL and then ENTER, once the graphics had settled down (I
presume that the login prompt would have been displayed if the graphics
were working). This brought up the login prompt with the graphics
working fine.

The only thing I can think that was the problem was that booting staight
into KDE was causing problems (my system is set to boot straight in
since there is only a single user), and that CTRL-ALT-DEL ENTER was
logging me back out.

Anyway, I solved the problem (along with a related problem that Suse
couldn't see my onboard USB ports) by removing the additional USB 2 PCI
card from the machine. Obviously some conflict in the hardware on Linux.

> And another thing - can't seem to do anything with the ethernet - Suse
> detects the hardware, but when I try to ping my ADSL modem I just get
> "Network unreachable".

I'm hopefully getting broadband soon, so please post and let me know if
you have found a solution to this problem.

--
Ant...

If you don't mention what chipset your graphics card has, and you don't
mention how have you set up your network interface card (DHCP or fixed
address) then nobody will be able to help you...

I suggest you start to read this:
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html


Paulo Rocha


Phil wrote:

> Please help. Going quietly mad.

[F-up set]
Phil wrote:
> Please help. Going quietly mad.
>
> Installing Suse 9.0.
>
> Installation seems to be OK - graphics OK if I set resolution to 1024
> X xxxx during installation.
>
> BUT when I rebbot - the graphics are completely garbled. The only way
> I can get around this is to re-istall - but any reboot screws the
> graphics again.

Do [CTRL][ALT][F1]
login as root
do 'init 3'
do 'sax2'
configure with correct settings
when progran closes do 'init 5'
do [CTRL][ALT][F1]
logout
[CTRL][ALT][F7]

--
houghi http://www.houghi.org
My experience with SuSE Linux 9.1

> The businessworld is like prison and M$ made everybody their bitch.

phil@philandlaura.com (Phil) wrote in message news:<b366840b.0405120148.652ef5d0@posting.google. com>...
> Please help. Going quietly mad.
>
> Installing Suse 9.0.
>
> Installation seems to be OK - graphics OK if I set resolution to 1024
> X xxxx during installation.
>
> BUT when I rebbot - the graphics are completely garbled. The only way
> I can get around this is to re-istall - but any reboot screws the
> graphics again.

What is your graphics card? What does your XF86Config look like?

> And another thing - can't seem to do anything with the ethernet - Suse
> detects the hardware, but when I try to ping my ADSL modem I just get
> "Network unreachable".

How is your network configured?