Gfx Driver Problem?

Hello,

I'm having a hard time getting Suse 10.3 and others (Mandriva, Ubuntu) up and running.

The installation works fine with all of them. Once it reboots I get stuck in a text promt with the following error messages:

(EE) intel (0): detecting sil164
(EE) intel (0): sil164 not detected got5: from DVOI2C_E Slave 112.
(EE) intel (0): unable to read from DVOI2C_E Slave 236
(EE) intel (0): ....

...
Screens found, but none have usable configuration

I tried to start up "fail save" with the commands sax2 and 0=i810 or 0=vesa but no luck as I have found here

http://wiki.suselinuxsupport.de/wikk...oGetTheGuiBack

and in some postes that I found in this forum.

It's an old Fujitsu Stylistic 4120 TabletPC. According to

http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mj...blet-suse.html it should work.

Knoppix worked fine.

Any help would be much appreciated since I feel really stuck after trying to resolve the issue for over week or so.

Best regards,

/Harald

Hmm, I had a similar problem a few days ago, but not exactly the same, so this might help.

I simply reinstalled my drivers that I was using through YaST in the command-prompt.

To do that, try this:

1. Enter your Username
2. Enter your password
3. Type su
4. Enter your root password

Now type...

/sbin/yast2

That will bring you to your System Tool (YaST2). From there, use the arrow keys to go to Software Management. Now hit enter and the RPMs and Repositories will load. Once that it done, try to see if your drivers are there. You search, hit F2 and then type the name of your driver. If you find it, hit enter when your over the file and that will mark it for installation. Hit F10 to accept the current packages, and once the packages have downloaded, and your prompted if you want to download more packages, hit F9.

Now, once you've done that, type reboot into the kernel and your computer will restart.

That's how I solved my problem of no configurable screens, but I was using NVIDIA Drivers.

Hello,

and thanks for the help.

I did as described. When I do a search for i810, Intel or Graphic, I find only a KERNEL-DEFAULT file. which has an "i" in front. Is that a good sign?

/Harald

Do you know what type of Video Card you have?

If it's an NVIDIA, tell me and I'll try to walk you through it.

It's an Intel 830MG Chipset.

From what I understood, that should be taken care of without any problems. Could it be a problem that I only created a CD for Boot/Installation and not a DVD - since I don't have a DVD drive for that machine. I assume there are more drivers on the DVD? Or has that nothing to do with it?

Thx,

/Harald

Really not sure but after a bit of googling this does seem to be cropping up in the odd place.

Not being on the Suse box I can't remember what xorg version 10.3 is running think 7.2. On to the real point http://packages.opensuse-community.org/ind...f86-video-intel from here you have that backport at the top, why I presume 7.2.

Now as it has been backported I wonder whether this may help, otherwise you could try the 7.3 way but that may bring in other bits. If it is 7.2 try the backport see if that helps.

Strange 0=vesa doesn't work though. But there is a gentoo bug open very similar. http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=216071 I'm really guessing that the distros have in common is xf86-video-intel 2.1.1 and that 2.2.2 is a fix maybe worth a try.

Hello again,

so here we go: your guess was in the right direction. According to this user:
http://offtopic.org/twiki/bin/view/M...etTabletST4110

the i830M chipset is not supported and therefor one has to edit the xorg.conf file to load the old i810 display driver.

Problem is, I have no idea how to edit the xorg.conf in the command prompt.
Any tips to start me into the right direction?
Many thanks in advance,

/Harald

I finally managed to install the XUBUNTU Live CD which lets you install Xubuntu onto you hard disk. That worked.... Now I just have to figure out how to update everything that needs updating... but that is a different story.
Honestly I'm not too impressed with the SUSE installation. As soon as one has to alter things, it really is not that easy anymore.....

Thanks for the feedback, however, it helped...

/Harald

PS: I'd still like to know how in theory one could install a driver manually. I fiddled around with VIM and the xorg.conf file, but that didn't really work.

There is a some manual work required for SUSE if a driver, let's say, isn't recognized.

If you want to install your driver manually, first find the latest version of the driver and download it to your desktop.

Next, you have to start the installer (I can't give an exact method for you, because I'm not sure which type of file that the driver is). If the driver is packaged in a folder, first extract the file, and then initiate it. The common command for this in the terminal (if it is an .exe file is ./filename.

Once you run the installer, remove the file(s) with the command...rm -r filename.

Sorry this is so vague, because like I said, not sure what the file type is.

If you find your drive package, post again, and I'll try to walk you through the process more precisely.

Hello and thanks for you help.

Well, I have switched to Xubuntu 6, since that was the only distribution that worked "out of the box" due to the fact that it only offers the old i810 drivers.

I'm stuck with not knowing how to manually install drivers in Ubuntu but I believe I'll have to look at their forums for help.

It's going forward but I really didn't think having to spend that much time on it...

Many thanks again,

/Harald

PS: and here is another link to make the Stylistic 4110/4120 work:

http://offtopic.org/twiki/bin/view/M...etTabletST4110