Graphic problem when installing openSUSE

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Hi, trying to install openSuse 13.2 on my old HP ProLiant DL320 G5 from 2007. It seems the motherboard integrated VGA is not sufficient to show the Gnome GUI. I get to the point where the GUI background is starting to show up but then the screen starts to blink and it all turns black. I have bought an external USB graphic card Deltaco USB-DVI1 with attached Linux driver file called libdlo-0.1.2.tag.gz so to my question:
How can I install the driver via USB stick, not being able to boot via the GUI interface? Kindly give me a detailed instruction as I am a newbie to Linux and not familiar with the Terminal. Appreciate any help!
//Mats

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  1. exactly what onboard graphics chip. We probably could get that to work if we know what it was.

  2. using a USB graphics adapter is far out I doubt many have even tried it. Does the USB device not come with full instructions?? Maybe if you tell/show/link to the instructions we could help

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Thx gogalthorp,

  1. Onboard graphics is “Integrated ATI ES1000 Video Controller with 16 MB SDRAM video memory”

  2. This is the link to the zip-files with the Linux drivers to the USB graphics card: http://www.deltaco.se/omega/support/driver/download.ashx?guid=40b6618e913844749a5b3a533a44e999
    Deltaco is a Swedish company but I guess it is just a PrivateLabel. Some claim the manufacturer might be a US company called DisplayLink but I have no proof of this, but I can always find out.

//Mats

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Are you using this machine as a server? If you boot with the nomodeset option it should use older less drivers that should work with about anything. But the graphics won’t be super.

At boot press e find line starting withlinux. Note it is long and wraps. Go tothe total end of that line enter a space and nomodeset press F10 to continue boot

If that works we can set thing permanent

Looking at the specs it seems this shipped in a rake mount But th MB actually has slots so you could have a real card if in a better case…

For the USB video dongel this is the best I can find.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DisplayLink

It is for arch but don’t see ant reason it would not work for openSUSE.