I just installed openSUSE 11.4 on my Acer Aspire One 722. It has n ATI HD6250 card and for the love of all that is sweet, openSUSE will not display the correct resolution. I am refraining for using the proprietary drivers as they caused problems when restarting the computer.
When I run
sudo /sbin/lspci
all I get for my display is VGA Compatible Controller: ATI Technologies Inc Device 9807.
I even edited the /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-device.conf file and tried:
Device “radeon”
Device “radeonhd”
Device “vesa”
All were unsuccessful as I never even make it into the GUI upon reboot.
I’ve reached the end of my rope here, can anyone help me out?
If neither ‘radeon’, nor ‘radeonhd’, nor ‘vesa’, will give you a GUI, what driver, if any gives you a GUI (with the wrong resolution) ? FBDEV ? Thats rather critical information needed to help, that is not clearly stated in your post.
What we need, is preferably once you have booted successfully to the GUI, is that you copy the contents of the log file /var/log/Xorg.0.log and post it to SUSE Paste and press ‘contribute’ so that it is posted on that paste site, and then take the website/address URL that it will give you, and post that here, so that our graphics resolution experts can look at it.
The HD6250 is fairly new, so its not surprising to me that the support from radeon and radeonhd drivers is not good. I’m surprised thou, that vesa does not give a GUI.
Did you try with EACH of the ‘radeon’, ‘radeonhd’, and also ‘vesa’ (in the 50-device.conf) also adding the boot code ‘nomodeset’ in the boot/grub splash menu ? The idea here is for ‘nomodeset’ to turn off the Kernel Mode Setting automatic driver selection, and instead rely on the /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-device.conf settings of the driver to force the driver selection. If you leave mode setting in place (by not applying that boot code), you risk not getting a GUI when yu specify the driver in the 50-device.conf.