Hi,
I downloaded and installed OpenSUSE 11.2 but only screen I see is console, SUSE won’t even open.
I assume that is an error of graphics card (ATI Mobility Radeon HD3650) or Processor (Intel Centrino 2)
The error says that there is niether internet connection nor a driver for graphics card.
I was able to work the command “startx” while I was using Ubuntu 9.10 (Ubuntu was not able to install proper graphics card driver too)
Could you please help me?
Thanks.
For some openSUSE practical theory wrt graphic cards, take a look here, … especially at post#1: openSUSE Graphic Card Practical Theory Guide for Users - openSUSE Forums
… per that post, you could boot DIRECT to run level 3 and try the vesa driver as an interim, until you get internet working and get the proprietary driver installed.
I tried it while connected internet but no results again…
Interesting point is, terminal is working on proper resolution but startx does not work.
I hope new updates would solve this problem. NO linux is working on my computer 
Apologies, but I can not tell WHAT you tried. Am I correct that you can boot to run level 3 ? I assume you can since you state “terminal” is working.
If so, did you try the fbdev driver? The vesa driver ? The radeon driver ? The radeonhd driver ? It was described in the link I provided as to how this can be done.
Did you try updating your drivers to the X11 : XOrg versions as suggested in post#11 of the link I provided ?
Did you try the fglrx drivers (where a custom driver build/load is needed) as also noted in the Link I provided ?
Did you try failsafe boot ?
Apologies for all the questions, but when you say you “tried again” I have no idea as to what that means.
I am writing this post via OpenSUSE 11.2 
But screen resolution is fixed. My graphics card model is recognized by SUSE but driver is unknown.
Please help me with this situation
You can check to see what driver is in use by opening (with root permissions) the file: /var/log/Xorg.0.log, and look for things like: RADEON(0) [indicating radeon driver] or RADEONHD(0) [indicating radeonhd driver] or VESA(0) [indicating vesa driver], or FBDEV(0) [indicting frame buffer driver]
As noted, post #1 and #11 in this thread give guidance: openSUSE Graphic Card Practical Theory Guide for Users - openSUSE Forums … where post#11 in particular is needed to fix some radeon and radeonhd driver bugs … and ultimately for your ATI hardware you may wish to use the superior fglrx (proprietary driver) which requires more work to install.
Edit - and if that is all too complex for you, please advise so we can walk you through this slower.
Hi all!
choldax, could you tell us, what exacly you did?
Becouse I have the seem problem with my Toshiba and linux.
Sorry for my eng.
Hfastmet, welcome to openSUSE Linux and welcome to our forum !!
Reference your problem with your Toshiba, please, can you advise us as to what graphic hardware is in your Toshiba, and also advise us as to what openSUSE version you are using?
If you type in a terminal with root permissions:
sax2 -p
you should get a good indication as to what graphic hardware is present.
I provided advice in an above post as to how you can tell what graphic driver openSUSE is attempting to load. Looking at /var/lib/Xorg.0.log is a good (albeit painful) technic that is applicable to almost all Linux distributions.
Thank you for your interest!
I have on board ATI Mobility Radeon HD3470, 256 MB RAM and trying OpenSuse 11.2
I found similar topic:
Toshiba Support Forums: Satellite A350-13 B (20x) and Linux …
Here sollution is remove 2GB memory but I an any case, don’t want to do. My BIOS is also latest.
This reads to be a nice card. It should work in openSUSE-11.2 and it should not be necessary to reduce the memory from 4GB to 2GB to get it to work.
I have a laptop with an ATI Mobility Radeon HD3450 and with 4GB of RAM and I did not have to reduce memory to get it working with openSUSE-11.2 (albeit my Radeonhd card is a bit different).
I installed openSUSE-11.2 Linux on this laptop 2 weeks ago. I noticed some things that might be of interest. I originally had openSUSE-11.1 on this laptop with KDE4 and special desktop effects enabled with the proprietary ATI graphic driver. So when I installed openSUSE-11.2 on the laptop (keeping my previous /home ) the laptop froze when trying to boot KDE. This was because my previous settings in KDE4 (under openSUSE-11.1) using special desktop effects with the proprietary ATI graphic driver, were not compatible with KDE4 under openSUSE with the radeonhd graphic driver.
I discovered that by booting to run level 3 (full screen text mode), and using “yast” to create a new user, I was then able to boot to this new user. But as soon as “special desktop effects” were enabled in the new user account, KDE would freeze and no longer boot to the new user.
I solved this by installing the proprietary ATI graphic driver, and then both old and new user accounts worked ok with special desktop effects. It was NOT necessary to remove 2 GB of RAM.
So I recommend you do either one of two things. Either:
There are various guides on how to do this:
I also wrote a “practical theory guide” with post#1 explaining some basics: Post#1: openSUSE Graphic Card Practical Theory Guide for Users - openSUSE Forums
… and post#11 in the same thread Post#11: openSUSE Graphic Card Practical Theory Guide for Users - openSUSE Forums explaining how to install more cutting edge open source graphic drivers.
In my case, for my Radeon HD3450 I installed the proprietary ATI driver “the hardway” (which is not hard) as documented in this link ATI drivers - openSUSE that I also referenced above.
I wish you good luck in sorting this. Its actually very easy for an average openSUSE user who has been doing this for a while, but it can be daunting and frustrating for a new user.
If you stumble along the way, please post so some of our more knowledgeable forum users can try help you.
Sorry my bad, I don’t have ATI Mobility Radeon HD3470, but I have ATI Mobility Radeon HD3650.
On this page Radeon - openSUSE don’t find my card, my last chance is download and install drivers from ATI drivers - openSUSE
I don’t have any graphics only console, I’dont know how, am I do this?
"* To create an installer package using the ati tool in graphical environment and for that you need to start your file browser with super user rights. Type the following in a terminal/konsole:
gnomesu nautilus (for Gnome)
kdesu dolphin (for KDE)
* Browse to your download folder where you have ati-driver-installer-9-9-x86.x86_64.run (I had it on desktop)
* (double-)click and select run
o Select “Generate distribution specific driver package”
o Agree the license
o Select SuSE Packages and your distribution
* You should have something like “fglrx64_7_4_0_SUSE111-8.65-1.x86_64.rpm” on your desktop (your working directory) now
* Go back to your terminal and install 6 packages to be able to build the kernel module by typing
sudo zypper in kernel-source linux-kernel-headers kernel-syms module-init-tools make gcc
The graphical installer don’t show you any warnings, if the kernel module won’t compile, so that’s why we’re making it on command line too:
sudo rpm -Uvh /home/<username>/Desktop/fglrx64_7_4_0_SUSE111-8.65-1.x86_64.rpm
The kernel module can be also compiled with “sudo sh /usr/bin/fglrx-kernel-build.sh” but you shouldn’t need this if everything goes fine."
Type
cd Desktop
dir
do you see it ?
OK, but I still have *.run
I need *.rpm
How I replace this extension?
which .run do you have??
You can also install from the .run if you also have already installed kernel-source, kernel-syms (both of same version as your kernel), linux-kernel-headers, and the base development pattern (including gcc, make etc …).
If you run with root permissions (in the full screen text mode) the program “yast” (type that - no quotes) and then using the tab, arrow and space bar navigate to yast > software > software management you can add those applications.
And then you can run the .run command per the appropriate instructions ATI drivers - openSUSE
ok, next step. My Yast can’t see ati-driver-installer-10-2.x86.run
I hit search but nothing do. I have this file in home/hfastmet/
YaST is not supposed to see ati-driver-installer-10-2.x86.run.
Clearly you either did not read all of the link I provided or you did not understand it.
I do not know what to do. You either won’t read all of the link I provided or you do not understand it. http://en.opensuse.org/ATI_drivers#The_hard_way