Hello
I have a Dell Vostro that have a 1920 x 1080 pixels screen. I booted with OpenSUSE DVD and have tried all VGA modes, even text mode, but after that, screen go black and remains in that way. I tried VESA mode too. In any way I can see more but grub options screen.
Is there any solution to this?
Thank you
So, you need to tell us more about the video in this laptop but in the meantime, why not give the kernel load option “nomodeset” which you can type in in the grub OS selection menu before you press enter to select the standard openSUSE startup. Also, did failsafe work for you?
Thank You,
My guess is the Dell Vostro 360 has “Sandy Bridge” processor with integrated HD 2000 graphics, and possibly also with a nVidia device/card, possibly making this a hybrid device ? … again, speculation on my part.
Have you tried to boot to a liveCD / liveUSB to confirm compatibility ?
I forgot to include my reference for some (not all) of my speculation: The world according to GRP: Ubuntu 12.04 Beta 1: Still no full HD on Dell Vostro 360
In that article they noted they could get 1280×1024 with the “nomodeset” or the “i915.modeset=0” parameter.
Once one gets openSUSE installed, then it ‘may’ be possible to further improve the resolution.
I’m afraid we have yet another Optimus problem, Nvidia Synergy a.k.a. Optimus for desktops. No solution today from what I can see.
[Hybrid-graphics-linux] nvidia Synergy (a.k.a. Optimus for desktops)](http://www.mail-archive.com/hybrid-graphics-linux@lists.launchpad.net/msg01966.html)
If it’s an optimus problem … then the only way to get around this is to disable it in the BIOS.
I’ve got a new laptop with this configuration (Dell M6600) … with optimus disabled (and hence ONLY using the nvidia drivers) everything works as expected.
On 04/23/2012 11:56 PM, faleloncio wrote:
>
> Hello
>
> I have a Dell Vostro that have a 1920 x 1080 pixels screen. I
> booted with OpenSUSE DVD and have tried all VGA modes, even text mode,
> but after that, screen go black and remains in that way. I tried VESA
> mode too. In any way I can see more but grub options screen.
>
> Is there any solution to this?
I can’t seem to login to the regular forum today, so I’m trying the NNTP
post approach.
One thing you could clarify is your openSUSE version. There is no
openSUSE-14.2. At least not yet.
The current version is 12.1. And version 12.2 is still in the ‘alpha’
development stages (with milestone-3 being the most current).
Perhaps in addition to advising us what graphics you have, and in
addition to trying the ‘boot codes’ that were suggested, you could also
enlighten us as to the openSUSE version ?
Good luck in your efforts !
You are right about OpenSUSE version. I tried with latest stable version, 12.1 x64. I tried all option posible on pressing F3 to select “Text, VESA, …” and none of them worked after launching the install option.
Tomorrow, monday, I will try to put “nomodeset” and if that doesn’t work, I’ll try to deactivate “Optimus” in BIOS.
Thank you for all your messages.
I’ll give you my results
See you later
Hello to everybody
Finally, I got to install OpenSUSE 12.1 with “nomodeset”. However, OpenSUSE is not able to detect monitor resolution (1920 x 1080) and works at 1024x768 os something similar, not the monitor native resolution. Moreover, is not able to detect my two monitors. Dell Vostro is a “all in one” computer, so in the monitor are all hardware (hd, mb, DVD reader, etc). With Win 7, I can use the “native” monitor plus an external monitor, but there is a problem. Linux does’nt recognize the integrated monitor resolution and even is not able to detect more than that monitor (the external monitor is not detected).
Any ideas?
Thank you
We have users who contribute to our forum who are quite good at solving such problems, but the likelihood of them reading of this new development, given the original problem is solved, is unlikely. The old thread title is simply too non-descriptive as it refers to an installation problem, not a resolution problem. Nor a dual monitor problem.
You need to start a new thread on this.
This is an optimus problem. You either need to disable it in the BIOS, or look at Bumblebee.
This is solved, in my case, with “nomodeset” to let me install OpenSUSE. Now, I will create a new thread about using two monitor on this desktop pc.
Thank you to everybody who help me with any posible solution. I’ll try to disable “Optimus” in BIOS to solve the next problem.
See you