monitor goes black with one bar of white with suse 10.2

[hosehead221]

I have a dell inspiron 5150 with 512mb of ram and a 32mb video card. Everything goes fine until i get to the last step were it shows you the configurations for the monitor and the resolution. What happens is that if i hit the next button the screen will go black with a white bar, or it will go black, i have tried changing to a vesa driver and also i have tried a lower resolution. Also suse 10.0 works fine with my laptop.

thanks,

DP

[AlexK]

try choosing a generic monitor instead of the default monitor SUSE chooses.

[hosehead221]

I have tried using several different monitors, including the ones under the dell selection that are listed as laptop monitors, also i tried using the generic lcd selection. With each different monitor i selected i got the same results.

[AlexK]

strange... is there any way you could look in 10.0's xorg.conf and grab the monitor details from there? Also is there any logfile or error file which is created, if there is, then could you post it? Also what graphics card do you have?

[hosehead221]

Ok the suse 10.0 use vesa frame buffer for my video card, the video card that shows up when i install 10.2 is a XGI Volari XP5 which is what windows uses. Also the monitor that 10.0 uses is the same one that 10.2 detects. I'm now wondering if it has to do with the video card and maybe the drivers for it in 10.2 since 10.0 is using the vesa driver. Right now i have been able to get it running by reinstalling 10.0 and then using the update method when installing 10.2 but i would like to figure out whats going on so that in the future i can install 10.2 without a problem as i think the update method screws with the performance. Just like in windows where its better to do a fresh install instead of a update.

[AlexK]

Hmm, looks like that card is based on a Trident chip. Perhaps you could try a different Trident driver or maybe tryout vesa + less than 1024x768 resolution for time being.

Also, did you install XGL + compiz in 10.2? If so, try installing without those.

[vista2006useer]

heey I have the same problem I have a open suse 10.2 ..
I installed suse .. regulary and when I try to log in I have see the black screen and I can't do anything .. my friend said that is from my display screen ..
so I reformatted and installedd .... ... ....
when installing all goes fine after I reached to the hardware configuration in last step in the installation .. I click test and I have the black screen ..

I have a lcd - LG FLARTON L1950B

so if any one know how can I reach to my hardware configuration please help me .. I want to try change to other display setting so please help me to reach to this place and I will be sure I will make this black screen get off ..

my hardware in my computer :
intel dual core 3.0Ghz pentium D
1024mb - ram 667 - kingstone
nvidia Geforce 6600 LE 256 mb
and s-ata2 160Gb

please I am verry hurry and need the linux .. if anyone know how can I change the linux hardware configuration without formating and reinstalling so please help me
and thanks for any advance ..

[AlexK]

@ vista2006useer,
1. boot into failsafe mode
2. login as root
3. run sax2
4. configure the monitor
5. try not to hijack threads in future

[vista2006useer]

I can't log in my safe mode too ..
it first loads and then I see a black screen
if you can help me how to login in the root .. ( because I am new to linux )
I think my problem is with my monitor configuration in the setup so what I should put my monitor ?
I have LG FLARTON L1950B - LCD -19

I have tried a lot of monitors in the setup of the linux .. ( I have installed it a lot of times ) when I click test monitor I see black screen and I am waiting and waiting and there is anything move ..
but in a chance it loads but I don't remember what the monitor and the setting I have put ..

[AlexK]

vista2006useer,
when your computer turns on what happens? Do you get a screen which allows you to choose which OS to boot? If that screen comes up, select Failsafe. Then follow my previous post.