Hi all,
I have installed openSUSE 11.4, and I really like it compared to other linux versions I’ve tried, but I find it requires a bit more linux know-how.
Being fairly new to linux, it has been quite the effort to learn but I started getting the hang of things via online support and such. Lately I’ve been having some problems.
I’ve tried searching these forums for help but couldn’t resolve my issues.
I need linux to run a TCAD program, and it requires some openGL functionality and was giving me errors when I tried entering the software related modeling GUI.
Anyhow, I thought it had to do with my graphics drivers, so I decided to update them via ATI proprietary driver. After doing this, the system booted me into the console rather than X.
I tried numerous online guides on how to fix the issues, by running all sorts of boot commands (nomodset), and I read the graphics driver theory, as well as trouble shooting ATI graphics.
In the process, I also installed a radeonhd-xorg11-something through YAST, and that caused a black screen altogether upon boot. I managed to boot into failsafe with x, and from there I removed it via YAST, however this did not resolve issues.
I also deleted any xorg.cionf files in hopes that the system will default back to the radeon driver.
As it stands right now, I can only boot into my system via failsafe mode. I’m keeping the unit off for now as it’s probably tired from all the hard reboots I had to do :P. If someone can help me resolve this issue, I can turn it on and enter any commands required, such as finding out the graphics card, the kernel, the driver currently running, etc and I can post it here.
After installing the ati driver did you try running as root the command: aticonfig --initial
If not and you still have the driver installed, try running the command, if you’ve uninstalled the driver reinstall it and try the command, then reboot
Hi all,
Thanks very much for the quick response. aticonfig --initial was one of the things I tried, however it did not help me before
I haven’t tried the ati-upgrade method (I need to download it), but I have a different issue now, and that is upon boot the PC no longer has internet connectivity, so I’m trouble shooting that now.
I have an IP address but can’t ping extrnal or internal PCs on the network.
-Dave
I don’t know what you did exactly but you would probably save time by reinstalling (if you just installed). Do not try to install any graphic driver. Once you’re done with the installation, open a terminal and type that:
su -l
zypper ar [noparse]http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/please_try_again/openSUSE_11.4/ PTA[/noparse]
zypper refresh -r PTA
zypper in atiupgrade
/usr/bin/atiupgrade
Then reboot. You’re done. No need to run aticonfig --initial. The script does that for you. This method works in most cases. Of course, there are always exceptions…
Reading the article first won’t hurt though.
Hi,
I think re-installing isn’t an option for me at the moment since the software I need is on the PC and I can’t reinstall it myself.
If anyone has any ideas, please share, I guess if all else fails I’ll re install the OS.
Thanks again
Have you searched your model and the keywords “Custom EDID”? Because your symptoms are like what I get with a Nvidia card that requires a EDID. But like I said, that’s a Nvidia thing and not necessarily ati.
It’s a rare case that you have to mess around with edid’s and I’ve not seen anyone recommending/requiring it for quite some time on this forum, not since the changes to xorg first came about when stuff was still being worked out
Never had to myself through lots of opensuse installs on lots of different graphics cards, if detecting the necessary modes/settings for a monitor is a bit fiddly there is the cvt tool for that as mentioned in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-monitor.conf, but even that is only something I’ve only ever had to use on old agp cards IIRC
Vaio Fs have to mess with EDIDs even with the new X. My symptoms were the same as the above even though I’m Nvidia so I thought I’d suggest it just in case.
Typically in the /var/log directory, one will find the file Xorg.0.log and also Xorg.0.log.old, where Xorg.0.log is the log file from the current boot, and Xorg.0.log.old is the log file from the previous boot.
To obtain information on a failed boot of X, one can attempt a boot without fail safe (which from this thread we know X fails for the user). Then reboot to safemode (possibly if one has a text mode in the failed X boot one can type ‘shutdown -r now’ to avoid having to press a hardware restart) and then do the fail safe boot. One should then have the two log files appropriately populated.
The contents of Xorg.0.log.old can then be posted to a site such as SUSE Paste and the URL posted in a help thread for other users to look at and provide their assessment (based on log file contents) as to why a boot may have failed.