Hi there, I just installed Suse 11.1 on my system. After first installation game the first boot, but then it’s over. The screen only gives the comment “unknown video format”. This message is from the monitor itselfs (Philips 42" flatscreen). I’m using a ATI 4650 video card.
If have tried to repair the installation but that doesn’t help.
Someone outthere with some good advise?
If you have already installed and the installation finished finding your display and other hardware, use the failsafe boot option that comes up on the boot menu.
If the install never finished and fails on the first reboot, install again but set the video resolution to 800x600 using the f keys as per the options at the bottom of the screen.
After the first boot, you can add the ati repo to install the video driver for the card.
I had so many problems with the ATI cards, and the one I had was a radeon 4870, pretty high end. I got an NVIDIA card instead and it works great, as has been the case with multiple linux machines. However, that may not help you, I was spending company dollars to get the new card.
I did found indeed the failsafe solution. Now it is working great! Thanks.