Suse On Amilo 1667g Laptop... Dead Monitor

Hi,

I have an Fujitsu Siemens Amilo 1667G laptop and I want to dual boot a Linux distro along side Windows because i'm sick of having to use Cygwin.

My openSUSE installation seemed to be good up until I click "installation finished you will now be taken to login screen", at this point I assume SUSE adjust monitor settings because the monitor just dies.

The system is still running but with NO monitor.

The same thing happened when I installed the latest Fedora Core 5, I was hoping this would support my laptop because its just been released, but nope, exactly the same thing.

Has anyone come across this problem or managed to get up and running on an Amilo 1667G?

Cheers

Has anyone come across this problem or managed to get up and running on an Amilo 1667G?[/b]

Take a look at:
http://tuxmobil.org/fujitsu.html (do a search for "1667" on that page).

also:
http://www.linux-on-laptops.com/fujitsu.html

Likely the problem is because of the ATI RADEON XPRESS 200M card in the laptop. Try a vesa driver (you can install a custom ati driver later).

Do this by booting to run level 3 (ie at the Grub boot menu, type "level 3"). Loggin in as a regular user. Type "su" to get root permissions. Type "sax2 -m 0=vesa" and select a conservative setting (you can optimise later). Test your graphics. Exit sax2. Type "exit" to get rid of root permissions. Type "whoami" to confirm you are back to regular permissions. Type "startx". Does that work?

After you log out you will be back to a text prompt. Type "su" to get root permissions. Type "shutdown -r now" which should reboot. After that no need to go back to run level 3.

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Edit: Just an after thought. Its always possible the regular "sax2" may work, and you don't need to type "sax2 -m 0=vesa". You could try "sax2" first (with no options), and only if it fails try "sax2 -m 0=vesa".

Cheers buddy, managed to figure it out myself. Posting on SUSE as we speek.

Heres what I did for anyone else.

Installed as usual, making sure to set my resolution to maximum, which was 1280 x 800 for WXGA

Copied the latest ATI Radeon Mobility drives to flash media (luckily SUSE picked up the in built media card hub).

Close graphic and switched to command line:

Press: Ctrl Alt F2

Then in terminal (after logging in as root):

# init 3

log in again...

# rmp -iU driver.rpm
# vi /etc/X11/xorg.conf <-- replace "radeon" to "fglx" [ATI name of driver]

Save exit and finally:
# startx

*Should* work.

Cheers buddy, managed to figure it out myself. Posting on SUSE as we speek.[/b]

C O N G R A T U L A T I O N S . .... Glad to read its working, and well done! Thanks for sharing your solution.