Hi good people
Please help me solve the following problem:
For 1 week I was trying to install any version of Ubuntu or Debian but I had problems with my monitor turned off (standby) or just blank screen. Tried various boot options but with no success.
So yesterday I decided to try openSUSE 11.3 64bit and I got (again) blank screen after pressing “Install”. Then I set Display=VESA and KERNEL=?safeconfig and it gave me message that my “video ram is < 96MB (it’s 128) or X was unable to start”. So I continued with text install. Everything went pretty well until the installation progress bar was stuck at 42% (last packet was openoffice I think). I can choose “help” of “abort” buttons using Tab though… I repeat the experiment and this time it reached 32%.
Some HW issue? My PC is:
Athlon64 X2 5400+
Asus M2V-MX (1202 bios)
2+1GB DDR2 800
GeCube Radeon x800GTO
500GB WDigital SATA2 (connected to JMicron jmb36x connector)
I have one old Ubuntu 8.04 installed before 1.5 years on my old HDD and the system is working fine with it. And (I hatet to say it) but ****ed WinXP work with no problems too.
I’m really freaking out! >:( I’m unable to install any Linux distro so far…
If I know which exact HW part is the problem I can try to replace it.
Sorry again. I feel stupid
So…there was something with the speed on which I burned. Everything else was fine. So I created new DVD and was able to install with TEXT mode because of tthe blank screen issue. Anyway I have same other noob questions:
If my HDD is on JMicron SATA2 connector GRUB can find the disks. If I switch to normal SATA connector it’s OK. Can’t understand why…
I enabled GRUB to load from MBR so I guess that’s why it overwrote WinXP bootloader, rigth? I can’t see my WinXP in GRUB now. I think it’s easy to fix though.
When I boot in desktop mode there is no X… I log into the console… I followed some guide from the forum and tried with “Xorg -configure”
The “X -configure /roo/xorg.conf.new”. I saw “no screens found”. After reboot the result is the same.
Also you can try with boot with nomodeset, login as root and typ yast and get the latest updates.
If you then get a GUI after reboot go into yast bootloader. I am sure if there are some help options including window…but you will find the config line somewhere on this forum. I do not running windows any longer. As far as I know windows xp is using a “chainloader” ?!? you will find this in yast bootloader add.
I can boot both Failsafe and Desktop (but without X … only console).
“nomodeset” doesn’t work for me The result is the same.
So…I setup my network connection then updated openSUSE using Yast. Still no X.
Then downloaded and tried to install ATI 9.3 x86_64 Linux driver (they say that my Radeon x800GTO is legacy and 10.6 will not support it) following “The hard way”](http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:ATI_drivers).
I got this error: Which: no XFree86 in (…)
Error: ./default_policy.sh does not support version
So 10.3 doesn’t support legacy drivers but 9.3 doesn’t support newer kernel?
WTF? >:( This can’t be true…
Also I tried to install Radeon driver following X.Org Wiki - radeonBuildHowTo.
However I’m stuck at ./autoconfigure.sh --prexif=/opt/xorg with the following error: Syntax error near unexpected token “XINERAMA”…
So far I couldn’t find any solution. Also 99% sure that “–prefix” is not right…
// Maybe the thread should be renamed/started again… The title is not relevant. Don’t know how to proceed/fix the thread…
Hmm, I am not experienced, but did you try a 32 bit live cd, installation, or whatever, just to be sure your graphics card is working 100% ?
Since you did not write about any working configuration, only about not working.
So far there were no working configuration
I tried Debian, Ubuntu and now SUSE. Seems like the new kernel don’t like my HW config… not that there is something special about it…
I have old HDD with functional Ubuntu 8.04 installed before an year. No problems with it but I really don’t remember with what HW it was first installed.
Bought new HDD and tried to install some new distro…2 weeks of hell so far.
Just to check, try booting with another screen. Best would be to use (borrow from someone, if necessary) modern one with good quality cable, which supports EDID. If it doesn’t help, then probably graphics card is the culprit.
My monitor is kind of new… LG W1941S TFT. You think it’s about the monitor config (xorg.conf)?
BTW I just found one install cd of Ubuntu 9.04, tried it and X worked (9.10 will work too I guess)! ARGH! >:(
OK someone help pls?
Since I can’t use ATI 9.3 drivers on SUSE 11.3 how can I install latest Radeon driver from Xorg? I followed the instructions but got some error (see above).
Sorry I’m noob but want to use SUSE
yes i have problem with opensuse 11.3 , working only on failsafe mode only , i try copy options in failsafe mode to desktop mode is working , any one here know what the mean every option in failsafe mode ?
i using LG LCD for monitor and IBM x3250 M2
last time working fine with opensuse 11.2 + XEN
I see you have 2 kernel selections (xen and desktop). Does this problem exist with both?
Note your failsafe only uses the deskop kernel.
As you noted, failsafe has different options: apm=off noresume nosmp maxcpus=0 edd=off powersaved=off nohz=off highres=off processor.max_cstate=1
I recommend you do many many reboots, using the desktop kernel, and in each reboot try one of the fail safe options, to see if you can determine which one allows the boot to succeed.
This thread has been entirely helpful, my install of linux has been nearly identical.
However, my openSuse boots on the failsafe mode every time, and only blank screens on regular boot mode.
My question first question is–is this ok to run a mediawiki server in?
" " 2nd " " – is there an easy fix? or is #1 ok 'cuz I have about a billion other things to do…
System:
AMD64 Athlon (single processor)
4G ram
800G HD (green caviar, w/64MB cache)
on board nVidia
As a note my previous other installs were Slackware and Debian. Slackware ran fine by itself, but i couldn’t install mediawiki. Debian failed miserably. All the same Linux kernal.
