Help with 10.3 guys

[Leveecius]

ok guys, I'm quickly finding out that my laptop hates Linux and is fighting me every step of the way. I downloaded 10.3 and checked the md5 sums on the iso and it's identical, but here's the problem. It won't read the CD's or DVD's. It will load the installation screen, I tell it to install, then it gives me the loading kernel diaglog, then it just puts the computer in suspend mode and shuts off. Is there ANY way for me to install 10.3 using my buddies computer on my network if he has the iso on his computer or no?

[gogalthorp]

What laptop?? maybe someone else has had this struggle.

[Leveecius]

What laptop?? maybe someone else has had this struggle.

My bad, my latptop is a Toshiba Satallite A215-4697S, 64bit.

[Cool01]

On some computers you have to turn off ACPI in the BIOS. If not then the loader fails. I guess this is a problem on your computer. It is a problem between the loader and the BIOS.

[Leveecius]

Got it all to work. Had a bad iso burn to the DVD. Re-burned it and everything worked peachy. Now I'm having problems with the Sound and Video. Only problem I'm having with the sound is my headphone jack still isn't working, and the video doesn't have 3D support for it so I downloaded the driver (the one from ATI's website), then it won't let me run it from terminal. So, anyone have any ideas? Also, I'm not getting a Framebuffer error anymore, that's good!

[Cool01]

Good to hear that you have it loaded.

. . . Now I'm having problems with the Sound and Video. Only problem I'm having with the sound is my headphone jack still isn't working, and the video doesn't have 3D support for it so I downloaded the driver (the one from ATI's website), then it won't let me run it from terminal.
. . .

I do not understand what you mean by the last comment. Are you saying that you cannot open a console? If not, then on the boot screen, enter a "3" which will stop the startup at the text screen (which is "run level = 3" or "elevator=3") and give you a login prompt.

[gogalthorp]

You need to be rootbefore installing any driver.

at a console prompt type

su
then the root password (note the pass word does not echo to the screen!)

Then try the install.

[Leveecius]

You need to be rootbefore installing any driver.

at a console prompt type

su
then the root password (note the pass word does not echo to the screen!)

Then try the install.

Yep got that. after that I get my current directory and user in red font. Then I change to the directory to the file that I downloaded. enter in ./filenamex86_64.run, and it tells me my permission is denied. Kinda weird, and I have never been denied permission as root or su. So that's what I mean by it won't let me run it in Konsol.

[bigtomrodney]

In this case you are being denied permission because the file is not executable. You can either run it with sh

sh ./filenamex86_64.run

Or give it execute permissions first

chmod +x ./filenamex86_64.run
./filenamex86_64.run

[Leveecius]

Ok, so, I finally installed my driver and did the aticonfig --initial command, it configured, and when I go to my Graphics card in YaST, it gives me the SaX2 Error: SaX2 cannot offer the activation of the 3D subsytem because your graphics card/driver doesn't support 3D. Yet I have 3D support in Windows. I tried going through the aticonfig cmmand and there is nothing in there that has anything to do with the Activation of 3D graphics. Any suggestions guys? I'd like to get this figured out ASAP. Thanks in advance guys.