Acer 5500 Blank Screen

Im trying to install suse 10.0 on an Acer 5500 laptop. There are 3 main problems. During the initial install, Yast tells me that it is not able to use its graphical interface because of insufficient memory. However, there is 1 gig of memory on board. So it chooses to use no graphics alternative. Also, It doesnt detect the ethernet properly during the install, and secondly, once it is installed, I get a blank screen when it starts X. The specs are 14.1 widescreen, ATI mobility x700 radeon 64 meg, and Intel Pro 2200 bg ethernet. I tried the live DVD but have the same blank screen problem. Any ideas?

Im trying to install suse 10.0 on an Acer 5500 laptop. There are 3 main problems. During the initial install, Yast tells me that it is not able to use its graphical interface because of insufficient memory. However, there is 1 gig of memory on board. So it chooses to use no graphics alternative. Also, It doesnt detect the ethernet properly during the install, and secondly, once it is installed, I get a blank screen when it starts X. The specs are 14.1 widescreen, ATI mobility x700 radeon 64 meg, and Intel Pro 2200 bg ethernet. I tried the live DVD but have the same blank screen problem. Any ideas?
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I think you may find you get a less than stellar response, when you lump 3 problems in one support request. Many users will have ideas how to solve one, or maybe two, but possibly not all 3. And rather than give you an incomplete response, they simply won't reply. In future, you may wish to make separate posts for each problem.

Reference your xwindows problem, I see a Kbuntu user managed to get xindows running on an Acer-5502. Not sure how close that is to your Acer-5500, but you may wish to look what they had to do. I see they used a separate monitor to help out.
http://www.shabdar.ws/content/view/21/1/1/2/

The approach I typically recommend for users, who have ATI graphic's cards, is to first try to get their xwindows running with a VESA driver, and then download a custom ATI driver. So you could also consider trying that approach. You could take a look at this thread:
http://wiki.suselinuxsupport.de/wikka.php?...ToGetTheGuiBack

ie. boot to run level 3 (you can do this by typing "level 3" in the options line when the grub boot menu appears. Loggin as a normal user. Then type "su" to get root permissions. Backup your xorg.conf file by typing "cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.new.bak". Then type "sax2 -m 0=vesa" [note that's a "zero"]. Then select a conservative setting in sax2. Test the setting. Exit sax2. Type "exit" to get back to being a normal user. Type "whoami" to confirm you are back to being a normal user. Type "startx" to test your xwindows. If it works, immediately exit "xwindows", bringing you back to a text prompt. Type "su" to get root permissions. Type "shutdown -r now" to reboot. On this boot, you don't have to type level-3 in the option bar.

If you can get it to work with VESA drivers, you can then download a custom ATI driver, and install that, at your leasure.

I followed those links you gave me and was able to get the screen to work. Thanks for the help.

I followed those links you gave me and was able to get the screen to work. [/b]

C O N G R A T U L A T I O N S .... welcome to Xwindows. When you have a quiet moment, you could start to look into downloading and getting custom ATI drivers to work. I'm not an ATI user, so I won't be able to help you there.