Re: [opensuse] OpenSuse10.3 will not boot into KDM with ATi graphics card - SOLVED

2007-10-31 Thread Jim Flanagan
Rajko M. wrote: On Saturday 27 October 2007 08:17:31 am Jim Flanagan wrote: Rajko M. wrote: ... It will be interesting to see what nvidia Xorg.0.log tells. BTW, do you have any other Xorg logs in /var/log/ I used as root in runlevel 3 command: X -configure which produced

Re: [opensuse] OpenSuse10.3 will not boot into KDM with ATi graphics card

2007-10-27 Thread Jim Flanagan
Rajko M. wrote: On Saturday 20 October 2007 11:38:16 pm Jim Flanagan wrote: ... So, thinking that it must be a 10.3 issue, I installed 2 different distros (something I had never done before). Pclinuxos and zenwalk both run fine in gui, pclinuxos is running at 1280x1024 at 60hz. I don't

Re: [opensuse] OpenSuse10.3 will not boot into KDM with ATi graphics card

2007-10-27 Thread David C. Rankin J.D. P.E.
Jim Flanagan wrote: Rajko M. wrote: On Saturday 20 October 2007 11:38:16 pm Jim Flanagan wrote: ... So, thinking that it must be a 10.3 issue, I installed 2 different distros (something I had never done before). Pclinuxos and zenwalk both run fine in gui, pclinuxos is running at

Re: [opensuse] OpenSuse10.3 will not boot into KDM with ATi graphics card

2007-10-27 Thread Jim Flanagan
David C. Rankin J.D. P.E. wrote: Section Device BoardNameRV250 If ^^^ BusID2:0:0 Driver radeon Identifier Device[0] Option AGPMode 4 Screen 0 VendorName ATI EndSection Now I'm not certain that this is your problem, but I

Re: [opensuse] OpenSuse10.3 will not boot into KDM with ATi graphics card

2007-10-27 Thread Rajko M.
On Saturday 27 October 2007 08:17:31 am Jim Flanagan wrote: Rajko M. wrote: ... It will be interesting to see what nvidia Xorg.0.log tells. BTW, do you have any other Xorg logs in /var/log/ OK guys, sorry for the delay, its been a busy week. (I don't know if its best to keep posting here

Re: [opensuse] OpenSuse10.3 will not boot into KDM with ATi graphics card

2007-10-21 Thread Jim Flanagan
Felix Miata wrote: On 2007/10/20 23:38 (GMT-0500) Jim Flanagan apparently typed: (EE) No devices detected. No devices, no video. Need to focus on why it can't find devices. If you still have a functional xorg.conf file from 10.2 around, I'd start evaluating differences from

Re: [opensuse] OpenSuse10.3 will not boot into KDM with ATi graphics card

2007-10-21 Thread Rajko M.
On Sunday 21 October 2007 10:11:04 am Jim Flanagan wrote: Why would sax run in yast, but not in command line? I guess in yast it is reading in current config. That means there is something about my system that it is not picking up. Will keep investigating. To tell sax2 to use current

Re: [opensuse] OpenSuse10.3 will not boot into KDM with ATi graphics card

2007-10-21 Thread Rajko M.
On Sunday 21 October 2007 12:50:32 am Rajko M. wrote: On Saturday 20 October 2007 11:38:16 pm Jim Flanagan wrote: ... So, thinking that it must be a 10.3 issue, I installed 2 different distros (something I had never done before). Pclinuxos and zenwalk both run fine in gui, pclinuxos is

Re: [opensuse] OpenSuse10.3 will not boot into KDM with ATi graphics card

2007-10-20 Thread Jim Flanagan
Joe Morris (NTM) wrote: On 10/19/2007 11:54 PM, Jim Flanagan wrote: My main issue is that during boot of a clean 10.3 install, I see the splash screens, and can press esc to see the boot txt scroll by, OK, this is using the video card's frame buffer. but when the system reached

Re: [opensuse] OpenSuse10.3 will not boot into KDM with ATi graphics card

2007-10-20 Thread Felix Miata
On 2007/10/20 23:38 (GMT-0500) Jim Flanagan apparently typed: (EE) No devices detected. No devices, no video. Need to focus on why it can't find devices. If you still have a functional xorg.conf file from 10.2 around, I'd start evaluating differences from the 10.3 versions you've tried so

Re: [opensuse] OpenSuse10.3 will not boot into KDM with ATi graphics card

2007-10-20 Thread Rajko M.
On Saturday 20 October 2007 11:38:16 pm Jim Flanagan wrote: ... So, thinking that it must be a 10.3 issue, I installed 2 different distros (something I had never done before). Pclinuxos and zenwalk both run fine in gui, pclinuxos is running at 1280x1024 at 60hz. I don't recall what zenwalk

Re: [opensuse] OpenSuse10.3 will not boot into KDM with ATi graphics card

2007-10-19 Thread Joe Morris (NTM)
On 10/19/2007 11:54 PM, Jim Flanagan wrote: My main issue is that during boot of a clean 10.3 install, I see the splash screens, and can press esc to see the boot txt scroll by, OK, this is using the video card's frame buffer. but when the system reached runlevel 5 it won't run kdm. This is

Re: [opensuse] OpenSuse10.3 will not boot into KDM with ATi graphics card

2007-10-19 Thread Joe Morris (NTM)
On 10/19/2007 10:40 PM, Jim Flanagan wrote: Joe Morris (NTM) wrote: On 10/19/2007 06:34 AM, Jim Flanagan wrote: So I re-installed the 9200, and my monitor says mode out of range, which happens with this card during default res installation, Don't even see the command line running by on

Re: [opensuse] OpenSuse10.3 will not boot into KDM with ATi graphics card

2007-10-19 Thread Jim Flanagan
Joe Morris (NTM) wrote: On 10/19/2007 10:40 PM, Jim Flanagan wrote: Joe Morris (NTM) wrote: On 10/19/2007 06:34 AM, Jim Flanagan wrote: So I re-installed the 9200, and my monitor says mode out of range, which happens with this card during default res installation, Don't

Re: [opensuse] OpenSuse10.3 will not boot into KDM with ATi graphics card

2007-10-19 Thread Jim Flanagan
Joe Morris (NTM) wrote: On 10/19/2007 06:34 AM, Jim Flanagan wrote: Ok, I tried the ati driver with the radeon 9800 pro card. Makes no difference, does not work either. Then I tried setting agpmode to 4x, but that did not get me to a destop either, with 4 different drivers, vesa, radeon,

Re: [opensuse] OpenSuse10.3 will not boot into KDM with ATi graphics card

2007-10-18 Thread BandiPat
On Thursday 18 October 2007, Jim Flanagan wrote: Have you guys tried the ati driver instead of the radeon?  I know both seem to work for me, but the differences were usually the cards they worked with, which may be the case with you. Either run sax2 with ati sax2 -m 0=ati or just

Re: [opensuse] OpenSuse10.3 will not boot into KDM with ATi graphics card

2007-10-18 Thread Jim Flanagan
BandiPat wrote: On Tuesday 16 October 2007, Jim Flanagan wrote: Joe Morris (NTM) wrote: On 10/16/2007 11:02 AM, Jim Flanagan wrote: OK, you are most correct, the driver was radeon. I changed it to vesa, then rebooted, but no change in behavior, not GUI at all. I only get

Re: [opensuse] OpenSuse10.3 will not boot into KDM with ATi graphics card

2007-10-18 Thread Joe Morris (NTM)
On 10/19/2007 06:34 AM, Jim Flanagan wrote: Ok, I tried the ati driver with the radeon 9800 pro card. Makes no difference, does not work either. Then I tried setting agpmode to 4x, but that did not get me to a destop either, with 4 different drivers, vesa, radeon, ati, and flgrx. So I

Re: [opensuse] OpenSuse10.3 will not boot into KDM with ATi graphics card

2007-10-16 Thread Joe Morris (NTM)
On 10/16/2007 11:02 AM, Jim Flanagan wrote: OK, you are most correct, the driver was radeon. I changed it to vesa, then rebooted, but no change in behavior, not GUI at all. I only get to command line. FWIW, I also have a 9200 (SE) using the radeon driver. Selecting 3D did not work

Re: [opensuse] OpenSuse10.3 will not boot into KDM with ATi graphics card

2007-10-16 Thread Jim Flanagan
Joe Morris (NTM) wrote: On 10/16/2007 11:02 AM, Jim Flanagan wrote: OK, you are most correct, the driver was radeon. I changed it to vesa, then rebooted, but no change in behavior, not GUI at all. I only get to command line. FWIW, I also have a 9200 (SE) using the radeon

Re: [opensuse] OpenSuse10.3 will not boot into KDM with ATi graphics card

2007-10-16 Thread Jim Flanagan
BandiPat wrote: On Tuesday 16 October 2007, Jim Flanagan wrote: Joe Morris (NTM) wrote: On 10/16/2007 11:02 AM, Jim Flanagan wrote: OK, you are most correct, the driver was radeon. I changed it to vesa, then rebooted, but no change in behavior, not GUI at all. I only get

Re: [opensuse] OpenSuse10.3 will not boot into KDM with ATi graphics card

2007-10-15 Thread Aniruddha
On Sun, 2007-10-14 at 22:03 -0500, Jim Flanagan wrote: Hi all, I've done several test installs of opensuse 10.3, but none will boot into KDM. I formatted over my old 9.3 install in did an clean install there, with /home there as well. I always try a test install before I move to the new

Re: [opensuse] OpenSuse10.3 will not boot into KDM with ATi graphics card

2007-10-15 Thread Jim Flanagan
Aniruddha wrote: On Sun, 2007-10-14 at 22:03 -0500, Jim Flanagan wrote: Hi all, I've done several test installs of opensuse 10.3, but none will boot into KDM. I formatted over my old 9.3 install in did an clean install there, with /home there as well. I always try a test install before I

Re: [opensuse] OpenSuse10.3 will not boot into KDM with ATi graphics card

2007-10-15 Thread Jim Flanagan
Aniruddha wrote: On Sun, 2007-10-14 at 22:03 -0500, Jim Flanagan wrote: Hi all, I've done several test installs of opensuse 10.3, but none will boot into KDM. I formatted over my old 9.3 install in did an clean install there, with /home there as well. I always try a test install before

[opensuse] OpenSuse10.3 will not boot into KDM with ATi graphics card

2007-10-14 Thread Jim Flanagan
Hi all, I've done several test installs of opensuse 10.3, but none will boot into KDM. I formatted over my old 9.3 install in did an clean install there, with /home there as well. I always try a test install before I move to the new version. I've tried 2 different video cards but neither