Suse Booting Problem

[Thebin]

Hello everyone,
I found out about Linux a year ago, now I've bought Suse 10.1. I want to Dual boot with windows Xp for gaming (I'm only 12). I already had windows installed with 60gb unpartioned space, so I went ahead and installed Suse, all went well except when accepting settings for graphics card it said error, I tried changing it but all I could get was the error message. I carried on with the installation that all went well. Until i tried to boot... it loaded GRUB and I selected Suse, after 30 seconds of the loading screen it flashed the "check-list" page then returned to the loading screen and beeped 3 times at me and switched its self off. And it wont get any further, I can boot windows through GRUB that works perfectly (except its made by microsoft ). I can also boot into suse in to failsafe but i ave no idea how to use it . Does anyone know whats happening? Will be unsupported hardware? There's my spec if that helps:

Graphics: ichill Geforce 7900GS
Motherboard: MSI K9NGM-L UATX (AM2)
CPU: AMD AM2 Athlon 64 3500
RAM: 512m DDR2 667 PC5300
HD: Maxtor 6G160E0 [Hard drive] (160.04 GB)(SATA)

Thanks
Bin

[devils casper]

hi Thebin,

Welcome to the LinuxForums.

in GRUB screen, select SuSe title and press 3. press Enter key. SuSe will boot up in Command Line mode. log in as root and execute sax2 to configure graphics. execute 'startx' to check GUI.






Casper

[Thebin]

Thanks for the help devils_casper i tried doing what you said in failsafe mode as i couldn't get "3" working. I changed the settings and tested it it worked fine... but after restarting and booting into Linux it did the same thing again. AArrrrrr Help it isn't working!!! What shall i do now?
Bin

[devils casper]

what happend on pressing 3 after selecting SuSe title? machine should boot up in command line mode.

[Thebin]

nothing happened, but i could carry on in failsafe,

[devils casper]

nothing? thats weird. it should throw an error message atleast.
anyways, boot up in FailSafe mode and execute this

less /etc/X11/xorg.conf

post Video Card and Monitor sections here.

[Thebin]

Done but i couldn't see the "video cards" so here's the monitor:
Section "monitor"
Display size 360 270
Horizsync 30-96
Identifier "Monitor[0]"
Model Name "M991"
Option "DPMS"
Vendor Name "DELL"
Vert Refresh "50-160"
Use modes "Modes[0]"
End Section

Is the "video" really called video?,
Thanks for the help so far
Bin

[devils casper]

Monitor Section is OK.

Is the "video" really called video?,

its actually Section Device having Video Card configuration.

Section "Device"
  identifier "xxxc Video Card"
  boardname "xxxx"
  busid "PCI:1:0:0"
  driver "vesa"
  screen 0
EndSection

open xorg.conf file in nano editor, 'nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf' and set driver value to "vesa". save file and reboot.

[Thebin]

Done but i didn't change anything as this is what was already there:

Section "Device"
Boardname "vesa-Bios Graphics
Bus ID "2:0:0"
Driver "vesa"
Identifier "Device [0]"
Option "use vnc" "no"
Vendor Name "VESA"
End Section

Bin

[devils casper]

hmmm....everything is configured properly. back to square one....
a few queries...
is GUI working fine in Failsafe mode?
what happens on select SuSe title? at what point Screen goes blank?
move up/down arrow keys to Highlight SuSe title, press 3 and press Enter key. did you try exactly like this to boot up in command line mode?