I have just installled SuSE Standard Server 8 on a AMD 1200 with 384 RAM. The installation told me it was successful. I previously had FC2 on this PC. I booted normally and go a black screen immediately after: "Starting httpd PERL SSL" Using 'Ctl-Alt-F1' I logged in and in text mode was able to shut down OK. I tried another video card and Yast detected it along with the onboard card (S3 Pro Savage DDR-K) I used originally. I checked out the SuSE Hardware database and the onboard card is fully supported. I removed the temporary card, plugged into the onboard card and this time SuSE booted into KDE! For about a week I booted into KDE and played around with the network settings but then one morning it went back to the black screen immediately after: "Starting httpd PERL SSL". Every time I boot, this is as far as it will go. Any help would be appreciated
On Fri, 2004-10-15 at 08:49 +1300, Gun Caundle wrote:
(SuSE Video pain)
Try booting into a non-gui runlevel - I think run level 3 is the default non-graphical runlevel in SuSE.
From there, log in as root and run yast. It should detect and test your graphics hardware before you boot into a GUI.
Once it's working, I suggest you disable automatic hardware detection (I think there's a yast setting for this, consult your docs) as your card, while supported, may be being incorrectly detected at boot time and thus causing grief. Regards, -- Greig McGill IT Partners Ltd. | DDI: +64 7 957 2654 PO Box 9361 | Fax: +64 7 957 2659 Hamilton, New Zealand | Mob: +64 21 753 026
Greig McGill wrote:
On Fri, 2004-10-15 at 08:49 +1300, Gun Caundle wrote:
(SuSE Video pain)
Try booting into a non-gui runlevel - I think run level 3 is the default non-graphical runlevel in SuSE.
From there, log in as root and run yast. It should detect and test your graphics hardware before you boot into a GUI.
Once it's working, I suggest you disable automatic hardware detection (I think there's a yast setting for this, consult your docs) as your card, while supported, may be being incorrectly detected at boot time and thus causing grief.
Regards,
Thanx for this Grieg. I'll give it a go.
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