for the first time i use Linux and in this case Opensuse 11.1 installation was correct no errors or something strange. After the forst boot the desktop gnome or kde willnot start i have choosen for Gnome, the system boots correct but after loading a lot of things i get the question username and password i give it and it is accepted and then i get an prompt and not gnome. I have an Asus motherboard with pci express, it is an nvidia board with raid the model of the motherboard is an Asus KN8E-4 De Luxe with an NVidia N4 chipset. How to fix this problem must i start as root the desktop but how all other Linux systems fails to install or give other problems.
after login type
startx
see if that gets you going
if not, re-boot and add vesa to the kernel boot arguments, you may need to remove vga=??
or do this
Pause the boot by moving the down arrow, then back up to the default boot. But now press backspace, it should delete any text where you can see VGA.
Remove all text and now type just the number:
3
and hit enter
at the login type your user name and then password
now type:
su
then the root password
now type this:
sax2 -r -m 0=vesa
(N.B. the 0 is a zero not a letter)
now reboot
if you don’t get a gui login
login as user and try this at the cli
startx
thank you the desktop is now starting automaticly but the screen resolution is not correct i can only choose for 800 x 600 and 16 bit color the nvidia card is wrong detected its not an 6600 type but an pci express nforce 4 series how to fix this vesa doesn’t work.
thanks befor i do this i saw that that the videocard is plugged in an AGP 4/8 expansion slot and on the videocard i saw only ASUS but Opensuse detects it as an NVidia and thats right so i will try your solution. I have also an another problem no sound the soundchip is an Realtek ALC850-8 channel codec but the most happy thing is that the desktop starts automaticly and when i am home i should try the nvidia solution thanks for your great help.
the solution doesn’t fix the problem i get still the message framebuffer not supported and i get the message the choosen resolution or colorsettings are not supported by the framebuffer of the card. I get mine screen only in 1280x1024 and 16 bit color i can’t choose any resolution, mine monitor is an AG Neovo F-419 Flatpanel how to fix these proble i think some config file must be changed. Please urgent help is needed. The card is detected as Nvidia Geforge 6600 GT.
xorg.conf
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SaX generated X11 config file
Created on: 2009-01-06T19:42:07+0100.
Version: 8.1
Contact: Marcus Schaefer <sax@suse.de>, 2005
Contact: SaX-User list <https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/sax-users>
Automatically generated by [ISaX] (8.1)
PLEASE DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE!
Section “Files”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/misc:unscaled”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/local”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/Type1”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/URW”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/Speedo”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/PEX”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/cyrillic”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/latin2/misc:unscaled”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/latin2/75dpi:unscaled”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/latin2/100dpi:unscaled”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/latin2/Type1”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/latin7/75dpi:unscaled”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/baekmuk:unscaled”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/japanese:unscaled”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/kwintv”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/truetype”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/uni:unscaled”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/CID”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/ucs/misc:unscaled”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/ucs/75dpi:unscaled”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/ucs/100dpi:unscaled”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/hellas/misc:unscaled”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/hellas/75dpi:unscaled”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/hellas/100dpi:unscaled”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/hellas/Type1”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/misc/sgi:unscaled”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/xtest”
FontPath “/opt/kde3/share/fonts”
InputDevices “/dev/gpmdata”
InputDevices “/dev/input/mice”
EndSection
Section “ServerFlags”
Option “AllowMouseOpenFail” “on”
Option “ZapWarning” “on”
EndSection
Section “Module”
Load “freetype”
Load “dbe”
Load “dri”
Load “glx”
Load “extmod”
EndSection
Section “InputDevice”
Driver “kbd”
Identifier “Keyboard[0]”
Option “Protocol” “Standard”
Option “XkbLayout” “us”
Option “XkbModel” “microsoftpro”
Option “XkbRules” “xfree86”
EndSection
Section “InputDevice”
Driver “mouse”
Identifier “Mouse[1]”
Option “Buttons” “9”
Option “Device” “/dev/input/mice”
Option “Name” “ImExPS/2 Generic Explorer Mouse”
Option “Protocol” “explorerps/2”
Option “Vendor” “Sysp”
Option “ZAxisMapping” “4 5”
EndSection
Section “Monitor”
DisplaySize 377 301
HorizSync 30-95
Identifier “Monitor[0]”
ModelName “109S”
Option “PreferredMode” “1280x1024”
VendorName “PHILIPS”
VertRefresh 50-160
UseModes “Modes[0]”
EndSection
Section “Modes”
Identifier “Modes[0]”
EndSection
Section “Screen”
DefaultDepth 16
SubSection “Display”
Depth 15
Modes “1280x1024”
EndSubSection
SubSection “Display”
Depth 16
Modes “1280x1024”
EndSubSection
SubSection “Display”
Depth 24
Modes “1280x1024”
EndSubSection
SubSection “Display”
Depth 8
Modes “1280x1024”
EndSubSection
Device “Device[0]”
Identifier “Screen[0]”
Monitor “Monitor[0]”
EndSection
Section “Device”
BoardName “GeForce 6600 GT”
Driver “vesa”
Identifier “Device[0]”
Screen 0
VendorName “NVidia”
EndSection
Section “ServerLayout”
Identifier “Layout[all]”
InputDevice “Keyboard[0]” “CoreKeyboard”
InputDevice “Mouse[1]” “CorePointer”
Option “Clone” “off”
Option “Xinerama” “off”
Screen “Screen[0]”
EndSection
Section “DRI”
Group “video”
Mode 0660
EndSection
Section “Extensions”
EndSection
This section
Section “Device”
BoardName “GeForce 6600 GT”
Driver “vesa”
Identifier “Device[0]”
Screen 0
VendorName “NVidia”
EndSection
Change:
Section “Device”
BoardName “GeForce 6600 GT”
Driver "nvidia"
Identifier “Device[0]”
Screen 0
VendorName “NVidia”
EndSection
maybe an stupid question how can i as root edit xorg.conf i don’t have nano installed i use kde when trying to installing nano it says mismatched package so how can i with sudo or su edit mine xorg.conf please show what i must type. Thanks for the great support.