Hi
11.3 will not load after the first reboot during install, after the reboot the screen just goes blank and that’s all.
This is a single setup no dual boot, from openSUSE-11.3-DVD-x86_64, on brand new Latitude E6510 laptop.
Is there any hints?
THX
You mean no grub boot menu?
There were major changes in 11.3 impacting graphics and the release notes provides some (rather heavy technical) information on this. What happens if you try booting with the boot code:
nomodeset
… also, a wild speculative concern, in your PC’s BIOS, what is the SATA drive set to ? Raid? AHCI ? IDE ? I’ve recently read that for both win7 and Linux compatibility it is best set to AHCI.
I’m thinking this is too speculative and not likely the issue. The Dell Latitude E6510 is even available with Ubuntu pre-installed, and hence this should ‘just work’. More likely problems are a bad openSUSE installation CD or you simply need to specify:
nomodeset
For example I note this thread for a ubuntu install: Fix Dell Latitude E6410 Black Screen During Ubuntu 10.04 Installation - Free device drivers Download where Ubuntu users need to specify “nouveau.modeset=0”. Well openSUSE does not use “nouveau.modeset=0”, but instead one needs to specify:
nomodeset
by itself in the grub menu.
I’ve tried both AHCI and IDE the result is the same.
I am able to boot into safe mode 1280x1204. My suspicion it is graphics, I have Intel integrated 1920x1080.
I am quiet new to Linux, could you point me to how exactly do I use “nomodeset”
At first just type nomodeset at the grub boot menu. If this works we can show you how to make it permanent.
I’ve been told so as to not lose win7 you need to keep it at AHCI ? …
If it is the graphics, then ‘nomodeset’ should address that. It may force an initial reboot to the ‘FBDEV’ driver and after you obtain a proper desktop/gui you can then go about tuning the driver to be better.
How do I do that, if I hit Esc during boot I get into a screen with Normal boot, Safe boot, Diskette,
where do I type nomodeset?
Sorry guys I am new to Linux. Thank you!
I figured, never mind.
However it now boots into 1280x1024 resolution but my screen is 1920x1080.
How do I set the right driver and native resolution?
To answer this, YOU need to help us. Surfing to me suggests the Dell Latitude 6510 comes with either NVIDIA® NVS 3100M 512MB DDR3 or Intel® HD Graphics. Which do you have ? And if it is Intel® HD Graphics which do you have?
You could try typing:
su -c 'lspci -nnk | grep VGA'
enter root password when prompted, and see if that provides anything useful (it may not if Graphics are Intel).
There may also be a “my computer” icon on your desktop, and if you click on that it may give you the information we have requested.
There may be more complexity, but lets start with the above 
Had you been using XP before installing Opensuse 11.3??
if so,u can try this:
Boot your PC from the live CD
After booting,open terminal and become root by : su -
type : “grub” and hit enter
type : " find /boot/grub/menu.lst" hit enter
Note this line here : (hd0,4) it may be different for your system i.e (hd0,1)
Now type this by using this from above for me is (hd0,4)
type root (hd0,4) and hit enter
type setup (hd0)
type quit
then reboot. and there u go hope i was for some help 
Actually, const451 noted in a subsequent post they were able to boot to get their graphics working and their install to complete. Hence I don’t think it necessary to follow that advice.
But thanks for the contribution!
It’s Intel Integrated HD - the one that comes with Arrandale CPU.
that command gave me: VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controrller [8086:0046] (rev 02)
The Thinkwiki is often a good source of information on graphic’s compatibility with laptop’s as they keep it reasonably up to date. Searching on the Arrandale and the Integrated Graphics that come with it, I get this hit: Intel HD Graphics - ThinkWiki which notes:
Chipset: Arrandale (GMCH Ironlake)
* PCI ID: 8086:0046
* PCI-E**NOTE!
**While almost all new ThinkPads have integrated Intel HD Graphics, on those ThinkPads with a Descrete NVIDIA GPU, the Intel GPU is disabled and cannot be enabled. There is no support for Switchable Graphics.Linux support
A very recent Linux distribution with kernel 2.6.33 and Intel Xorg driver 2.11 or newer is recommended.
Note that XVideo (Xv) playback at certain frame sizes does not work properly unless you have at least version 2.12 of the Intel Xorg driver.
Since you are using openSUSE-11.3, it comes with the 2.6.34 kernel and the 2.12 Intel driver, so this should work without having to use ‘nomodeset’ as a boot code. Is nomodeset what you ended up using in order to successfully boot ?
What do you get if you type:
xrandr
. Post that here
Also, can you please open up the file /var/log/Xorg.0.log with a text editor (kwrite in KDE or gedit in Gnome) and copy the contents of the file and paste it to Pastebin.com - #1 paste tool since 2002! and press submit on that site, and post here the URL it provides.
I want to see (1) what driver is loading, and (2) what error messages are present in that file.
xrandr says: “Screen 0: minimum 1280 x 1024, current 1280 x 1024, maximum 1280 x 1024 default connected 1280x1024+0+0 0mm x 0mm 1280x1024 77.0*”
here is the link to the log file:
Thanks. Your PC is not using the Intel graphic driver, but has fallen back to the FBDEV graphic driver, which is very limited.
Unfortunately, there appears to be a bug here impacting all Linux distributions and not just openSUSE. Note this bug report: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29278
At the moment I don’t know of a fix, although its possible someone has come up with a patch somewhere. You could search openSUSE bugzilla to see if this has been reported, and if it has what is the progress.
Thank you for your help.
On 2010-10-27 23:36, oldcpu wrote:
>
> const451;2244845 Wrote:
> Unfortunately, there appears to be a bug here impacting all Linux
> distributions and not just openSUSE. Note this bug report:
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29278
Then it would be perhaps better for him to install 11.2 instead.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.2 x86_64 “Emerald” at Telcontar)