This is a fresh install of Milestone 1. I formatted all the partitions
except Swap on the drive. Did not format swap because my production system
uses it. Swap and Test on sda and production (11.1) on sdb.
When I log on as User 1, I get a VGA 640x480 screen. It is almost
impossible to use it because I cannot shrink it to fit on screen. Going into
YaST → Hardware → Graphics Card & Monitor shows the correct size but
testing before exit and save comes up as a 640x480 screen and none of the
adjustments work. I do not have the Nvidia driver installed yet since it is
asking for a dependency that is apparently missing. Something to do with a
kernel trace file.
Weird part is if I go into the OS as failsafe the desktop comes up as
1280x1024 like it should. going into Sax the test screen still shows
640x480.
on start up get message their is no active update repo. YaST → repo’s
shows a update repository. When I try to use it it asks me to register. But
I cannot register since there is no product code to input. What repo do I
use for updates, I here Milestone 2 was released… Neither YaST on Line
Update or the updater applet will work.
Other than the above two I have not test much yet. I do get a failure
message on my Intel sound saying its dropping back to pulseaudio and the
sound does work there. I have not check this out yet.
I assume I can report these bugs on Bugzilla, once I verify they are not my
config.
>
> ‘Submitting Bug Reports - openSUSE’
> (http://en.opensuse.org/Submitting_Bug_Reports)
>
> And if you suspect to have an error in your configs, then I don’t
> understand why you don’t post any of them.
>
>
Thanks for the response. The reason I asked here is openSUSE 11.2 is not an
official release and I have never got much responce in the other mailing
lists on questions about alpha releases. As for error messages on the screen
problem, I don.t see any. Only error I do see says " No archive update
repository please configure one".
That’s exactly the reason why Bugzilla is the right address.
P.S.
You should also read the link on how to write a bug report, even when posting here, your informations given are very poor, especially for someone testing Alpha releases.
>
> upscope;1981386 Wrote:
>>
>> Thanks for the response. The reason I asked here is openSUSE 11.2 is
>> not an
>> official release and I have never got much responce in the other
>> mailing
>> lists on questions about alpha releases.
>
> That’s exactly the reason why Bugzilla is the right address.
>
>
I file bug reports since a search did not find anything.
You know failsafe and the regular boot are basically the same, except failsafe has a bunch of extra boot codes. You could do a regular boot, and apply the boot codes from fail safe, one-by-one, and keep rebooting trying one at a time until you figure out the one that prevents the problem from occuring. My guess is it is “highres=off” …
What graphic hardware do you have?
Try this:
boot to run level 3 (you do that by typing “3” (no quotes) in the grub boot menu when it appears, such that “3” is a separate option" ).
log in as a regular user to the text log in prompt
su -c 'cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.oldback’
su -c 'cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf.install /etc/X11/xorg.conf’
and in each case enter your root password when prompted.
reboot and test your graphics.
You still need to write a bug report, but that might get you started with better graphics.
If that doesn’t work, there are other things we can try go get your graphics working better.
Same problem here. It appears the NVIDIA support in 11.2 is somewhat incomplete. The solution I found was to download the latest NVIDIA driver (185.19) and install it. Not difficult, but a bit intimidating for a new users. There’s a web page someplace that describes how to do this and it’s pretty easy to follow. It does require an internet connection which, for me, wasn’t possible under 11.1 given the broken support for my ethernet in that version which is thankfully fixed in 11.2!
I also saw the second problem on my system but it’s working now. I don’t recall exactly what I did but I do remember clicking on something that configured the active update repo but there’s nothing in there yet so that might be the cause of the error. I also added Factory to the list of Repositories.
There are no updates while 11.2 is in the milestone stage. When Milestone 2 comes out, you may be able to update to that by adding the appropriate repo.
>
> upscope;1981322 Wrote:
>> Weird part is if I go into the OS as failsafe the desktop comes up as
>> 1280x1024 like it should. going into Sax the test screen still shows
>> 640x480.
> You know failsafe and the regular boot are basically the same, except
> failsafe has a bunch of extra boot codes. You could do a regular boot,
> and apply the boot codes from fail safe, one-by-one, and keep rebooting
> trying one at a time until you figure out the one that prevents the
> problem from occuring. My guess is it is “highres=off” …
>
> What graphic hardware do you have?
>
> Try this:
> - boot to run level 3 (you do that by typing “3” (no quotes) in the
> grub boot menu when it appears, such that “3” is a separate option" ).
> - log in as a regular user to the text log in prompt
> - ::su -c ‘cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.oldback’::
> - ::su -c ‘cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf.install /etc/X11/xorg.conf’::
> and in each case enter your root password when prompted.
> - reboot and test your graphics.
>
> You still need to write a bug report, but that might get you started
> with better graphics.
>
> If that doesn’t work, there are other things we can try go get your
> graphics working better.
>
>
Thanks for the quick reply. When I first installed 11.2 fail safe was
coming up in GUI mode like you say, sometime yesterday it all of a sudden
started coming up in command line. I made no changes to the start up stuff.
I will look at the original menu.lst menu and make sure nothing has changed.
When fail safe was coming up in the GUI mode the screen was correct. Both
modes have VGA=0x31a. I will have time latter today to test this. I saved
the SAX log yesterday but it is quite log, saw no errors I understood. also
saved xorg.conf. It looks the same as my 11.1 systems version. Both show the
higher resolution. I’ll reboot and save both again. I ran the repair on the
11.2 system yesterday when I detected some errors in the partitions, all
were successfully repaired. Reason I ran it is with 640x480 screen I cannot
get to the functions, window will not move around screen. During install the
bootloader did not set up my other disk with 11.1 on it.
>
> upscope;1981322 Wrote:
>>
>> 1. When I log on as User 1, I get a VGA 640x480 screen. It is almost
>> impossible to use it because I cannot shrink it to fit on screen.
>>
>> 2. on start up get message their is no active update repo. YaST →
>> repo’s
>> shows a update repository.
>
> Same problem here. It appears the NVIDIA support in 11.2 is somewhat
> incomplete. The solution I found was to download the latest NVIDIA
> driver (185.19) and install it. Not difficult, but a bit intimidating
> for a new users. There’s a web page someplace that describes how to do
> this and it’s pretty easy to follow. It does require an internet
> connection which, for me, wasn’t possible under 11.1 given the broken
> support for my ethernet in that version which is thankfully fixed in
> 11.2!
>
> I also saw the second problem on my system but it’s working now. I
> don’t recall exactly what I did but I do remember clicking on something
> that configured the active update repo but there’s nothing in there yet
> so that might be the cause of the error. I also added Factory to the
> list of Repositories.
>
>
Glad you posted this, I was wondering which version of Nvidia to download
and install. Where did you find the 185.19. I have the http://download.nvidia.com/opensuse/11.1 enabled but when I try changing it
to 11.2 it says it does not exist. I was suspecting nv had a problem. I’ll
look again for the version you mention.
I don’t believe Nvidia has anything for the factory versions. You can keep checking the ftp equivalent of http://download.nvidia.com/opensuse/ for changes though:
Maybe I should clarify what I said earlier about no updates. The developers don’t set up an update server for the updater applet while it’s in Milestone stage. There may be some updates posted to the factory repos.
There’s another thread in this forum that talks about the new NVIDIA driver, unfortunately the poster got the URL wrong (off by one digit). The correct URL should be:
I don’t recall where I found the build/installation instructions, but they’re something like:
kill the Xserver (Control-Alt-Delete)
go to run level 3 - “init 3” (might need to go Single user first - “init S”)
login as root
sh NVIDIA… (the name of the NVIDIA file you downloaded above). You need to have the kernel-source, gcc and make installed which you can do with YaST2 beforehand
when the build completes, reconfigure the Xserver with the command “sax2 -r -m 0=nvidia” (that’s a zero= not an oh=)
shutdown and reboot
You should be up and running and all the resolutions should be available.
I’ve been getting weekly updates
theyre snapshots by zypper dup or zypper up or running yast and updating all newer packages
but be warned the snapshots are unstable and might break your system
>
> upscope;1981815 Wrote:
>> pilotgi wrote:
>>
>> >
>> > Milestone 2 is due May 28.
>> >
>> >
>> Thanks, do you no the repo for the factory versions since this is my
>> test
>> installation.
>> –
>> Russ
>> openSUSE 11.1 (2.6.27.21-0.1-default [x86_64) KDE 4.2 release 106,
>> Intel
>> DX48BT2 Core 2 Dual E7200. 4 GB DDR III GeForce 8400 GS, 320GB Disc (2)[/color]
> I’ve been getting weekly updates
> theyre snapshots by zypper dup or zypper up or running yast and
> updating all newer packages
> but be warned the snapshots are unstable and might break your system
>
>
Thanks . My system is broke anyway. I have aan issue with the graaphics that
I’m trying to get resolved. It is only appearing a 640x480 and you cannot
all the window. Trying to find a Nvidia driver that hopefullt will fix.
I just recently upgraded from 11.0-11.1-11.1 milestone and had to downgrade back to 11.1. In general everything went smooth except for the xserver, I have a Radeon 4850 card and after the 11.1 install was unable to get vesa, or fglrx working. Onces I removed the factory repo, and updated again everything worked.
I did a few searches, and it seems that the milestone version of xorg did not play well with my card. When I checked out the Xorg file I seen errors such as could not find keyboard, and did not see any reference to fglrx. I think it was a problem with the ATI driver and that version of Xorg server. This also might be related to dirty system, as it was an upgrade from 11.0-11.1 to milestone and even though I did a clean cache it is not a complete clean install.
I also noticed that I would get hard locks, and kernel panics while playing with xorg while using milestone. For example trying to use saX2 while not having a xserver running would hard lock the system. And if I edited the xorg.conf file by hand sometimes it would hard lock as well. The keyboard would go dead, and I had no input device, the only way to solve the problem was to reboot. I might give it a try in a few weeks under a virtual server which I should of done anyway. I was so used to have factory under 11.0 that when I initially had 11.1 I activated it thinking it would not pull the milestone down. Anyway I am happy to give any feedback available.
>
> upscope;1981815 Wrote:
>>
>> Thanks, do you no the repo for the factory versions since this is my
>> test
>> installation.
>>
> The factory repo is here:
>
> ‘Index of /factory/repo’ (http://download.opensuse.org/factory/repo/)
>
> You need the oss and non-oss from suse.
>
> Maybe I should clarify what I said earlier about no updates. The
> developers don’t set up an update server for the updater applet while
> it’s in Milestone stage. There may be some updates posted to the factory
> repos.
>
>
Thanks I’ll add this repo. My problem with screen has been solved, I post
that as a seperate item.
> This is a fresh install of Milestone 1. I formatted all the partitions
> except Swap on the drive. Did not format swap because my production system
> uses it. Swap and Test on sda and production (11.1) on sdb.
>
> 1. When I log on as User 1, I get a VGA 640x480 screen. It is almost
> impossible to use it because I cannot shrink it to fit on screen. Going
> into YaST → Hardware → Graphics Card & Monitor shows the correct size
> but testing before exit and save comes up as a 640x480 screen and none of
> the adjustments work. I do not have the Nvidia driver installed yet since
> it is asking for a dependency that is apparently missing. Something to do
> with a kernel trace file.
> Weird part is if I go into the OS as failsafe the desktop comes up as
> 1280x1024 like it should. going into Sax the test screen still shows
> 640x480.
>
> 2. on start up get message their is no active update repo. YaST → repo’s
> shows a update repository. When I try to use it it asks me to register.
> But I cannot register since there is no product code to input. What repo
> do I use for updates, I here Milestone 2 was released… Neither YaST on
> Line Update or the updater applet will work.
>
> Other than the above two I have not test much yet. I do get a failure
> message on my Intel sound saying its dropping back to pulseaudio and the
> sound does work there. I have not check this out yet.
>
> I assume I can report these bugs on Bugzilla, once I verify they are not
> my config.
>
> Any help on items 1 & 2 work be appreciated.
Item 1. has been solved. It required editing xorg.conf manually to set the
monitor to the right sync Frequencies. See Bugzilla 500691 for the details.