Acer Aspire 1355 LC - Fatal Error: No Screens Found

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#1

Hi,

Wanted to try OpenSUSE11, so installed it on my old Acer Aspire 1355 LC. However, whilst booting up, it starts reporting issues with X server - Fatal Error: no screens found. Had a dig around and did the “sax2 -m 0=vesa” just get some kind of gui - this worked, but this is unusable. Not sure what to do now though - went into YaST to configure the display, but no idea which options to select…

Any help gratefully received…

Thanks.

#2

Hi
What video card do you have? If your not sure the following should
identify;


/sbin/lspci -nnv | grep VGA

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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
openSUSE 11.0 x86 Kernel 2.6.25.16-0.1-default
up 10:28, 3 users, load average: 0.01, 0.20, 0.36
GPU GeForce 6600 TE/6200 TE - Driver Version: 173.14.12

#3

Hi Malacom,

ran the code and it returned as follows:

01:00.0 0300: 1106:7205 (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])

Thanks for replying!

BM

#4

Hi
The 1106:7205 googles a VIA/S3G UniChrome. So instead of vesa try
via (unichrome).

You could try the openchrome drivers; http://www.openchrome.org/ or
have a search here; http://software.opensuse.org/search on openchrome

And maybe a read here; http://en.opensuse.org/VIA

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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
openSUSE 11.0 x86 Kernel 2.6.25.16-0.1-default
up 1:50, 0 users, load average: 0.12, 0.11, 0.24
GPU GeForce 6600 TE/6200 TE - Driver Version:

#5

Hi Malcom,

I’m afraid I need real ‘back to basics’ help on this…

From that second link <Software.openSUSE.org >, I searched for openchrome, found a 1 click installfor
xorg-x11-driver-video-openchrome. This installed, but what do I need to do now…?

As you can tell, this is all new stuff to me…

Thanks in advance

#6

Hi
It should have installed the driver called via, so you just run the
sax2 command at runlevel 3;


ctrl+alt+F1

login as your user then;

su -
init 3
sax2 -r -m 0=via

This should let you run the setup of the video card a monitor, save and
exit. If it doesn't work try;

sax2 -r -m 0=vesa

init 5 && exit
ctrl+alt+F1
exit
ctrl+alt+F7

The last command ctrl+alt+F7 gets you back to the GUI.

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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
openSUSE 11.0 x86 Kernel 2.6.25.16-0.1-default
up 4:38, 0 users, load average: 0.48, 0.47, 0.52
GPU GeForce 6600 TE/6200 TE - Driver Version:

#7

Worked a treat thanks Malcom!

Thanks for your help and patience…

:slight_smile: