Can't not get 11.2 installed on my Laptop

[foresthill]

In my case, the black screen was accompanied by the hard drive light continuously lit (with no activity) and the keyboard completely unresponsive. SO this tells me that it’s not merely an incorrect resolution, but rather some sort of kernel crash.

I got rid of the problem by logging in to the console in failsafe mode, logging in as root, running the command

init 3

Then I logged in as root again and ran

sax2 -r -m 0=ati

This fixed the problem for several reboots, but the problem mysteriously returned the next day. So I went through this procedure a second time and the problem again returned.

So I ended up installing the latest versions of Ubuntu and Kubuntu, which I am very happy with so far. I will keep an idea on this board and see if someone can get to the bottom of this problem. I’m pretty much at the end of my rope with it.

[vader95]

can your computer support 64 bit systems? that could be a problem.

[devil51]

Thanks!
I’ve found a solution to this problem. I installed the 64bit again.During installation, I chose not to install radeonhd which is xorg-x11-driver-video-radeonhd in Yast.NOw 11.2 works well with my X1300,and KWIN desktop effects works even without radeonhd or fglrx driver. Although there are some display problem in KWIN ,It’s really exciting! THis is the very first time that My ATI works in 3d,haha.

[devil51]

@oldcpu

Did you try installing with any of the other installation options?

Press F3 and select VESA install. If that does not work, select a TEXT install.

You can also go under another Fx buttom (I can’t recall which) and select a Safe Settings Install.

Did none of those work?

Also, before you burned your DVDs, did you compare the md5sum of the downloaded iso file against the md5sum posted on the Novell/SuSE-GmbH web site? Did you burn the DVD to a high quality DVD (not an RW) to the slowest speed your burner allows?

Thanks!
yes, I checked the MD5 before burning.
I’ve found a solution to this problem. I installed the 64bit again.During installation, I chose not to install radeonhd which is xorg-x11-driver-video-radeonhd in Yast.NOw 11.2 works well with my X1300,and KWIN desktop effects works even without radeonhd or fglrx driver. Although there are some display problem in KWIN ,It’s really exciting! THis is the very first time that My ATI works in 3d,haha.

[oldcpu]

@devil51

I’ve found a solution to this problem. I installed the 64bit again.During installation, I chose not to install radeonhd which is xorg-x11-driver-video-radeonhd in Yast.NOw 11.2 works well with my X1300,and KWIN desktop effects works even without radeonhd or fglrx driver. Although there are some display problem in KWIN

Did you have to deliberately deselect xorg-x11-driver-video-radeonhd ?

I think there is a bug report here on this:
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=548140

… its possible there is a fix in factory.

If one does a search for “radeonhd” in bugzilla, one gets a lot of hits.

[devil51]

@oldcpu

Did you have to deliberately deselect xorg-x11-driver-video-radeonhd ?

yes, I have to do that. I’ve tried every means I can think of. But all of them gave me black screens. Now my laptop works well without it.few days ago,I installed radeonhd from yast. after reboot my laptop hanged ,I thought that maybe radeonhd wasn’t compatible with the default xorg video driver.then I deselected xorg-x11-driver-video,and only left xorg-x11-driver-video-radeonhd .this time I saw the system info show that the driver is radeohd and I was very happy.however, It didn’t last too long .a black screen appeared again when I reboot it…very disappointing>:(…