OpenSUSE Install :: No Video After 11.4 Installation?
Aug 6, 2011
My issue is after having good video during installation of 11.4 Opensuse, I have bad video after installation. When 11.4 restarts I have an unreadable video pattern which renders the rest of the installation useless. It's strange that 11.4 loads the images at boot and installs with good video, but an unreadable video after installation. My previous installations of 11.4 have been flawless. On this system I'm using a Biostar MCP61 system board, AMD Athlon CPU dual core 64, on-board video(Nvidia), 1 TB hard drive, and an analog Viewsonic VA721 17inch LCD monitor.
I had Opensuse 11.1 running well on this system before I attempted an upgrade to 11.4. I tried, at initial install of 11.4, to adjust the resolution down to 1024*768 which had no effect on the installation. Then I entered "vga=0x31a" as a booting command at initial install with no good effect. After several install attempts with different configs I still get no viewable image on the display.
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Sep 24, 2010
I am a perfect linux noob user, i have an ati 5750 card, so when i try to install opensuse 11.3 KDE, i click "install" i see a loading then just a black screen with the monitors led blinking, i had this issue before with kubuntu, but i find on forums that i have to use command : xforcevesa, and it worked, i don"t know similar command for opensuse. i am switching to opensuse cause i had some problems with Kubuntu. note that i tried all options in installation's menu, no acpi, vesa, low resolution......
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Aug 16, 2009
While booting SUSE 11.1 64-bit I get these messages:
Code:
Probing EDD (edd off to disable)
Undefined video mode 346
Press Enter to see video modes available
And then a 30-second wait.
Is it advisable to set edd off? If so, how?
Would that get rid of the 30-second wait?
The video card (NVidia GeForce 6150 LE) and the monitor (ViewSonic VA2216W-4) seem to work fine with SUSE, so I don't understand the "Undefined video mode" message.
Having said that, I've seen much better text-rendering than, for instance, this messageboard. See attached image. Could that be a card/monitor problem? It looks better in Vista with the same hardware. So does Firefox in general.
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Mar 8, 2010
This is just a data point because these observations are semi-irreproducible results:
* sound. Sometimes the sound cuts out and no sound producing applications are able to use sound. I do not see any evidence for what happened in /var/log/messages. If there is something else I should look at, it would be nice to know. Nothing in the alsa stuff jumps out as a way to trace the activity, so I don't know how to provide any diagnostic info. After several reboots, it eventually restores itself and works correctly.
* video. Sometimes when I boot up, the secondary monitor has residual trash on the boot up/login screen. Other times, it is switched off entirely and I only get one monitor functioning when the desk top is finally up. Rebooting a few times clears this up, too.
The clear-up reboot requires a full shut down, not just a KDE restart. That is always ineffective when these problems present themselves, so these are likely driver level issues. I do not know where developers get their suggestions, but here's one: for each subsystem, have some well-named "I need diagnostics for this" thing available under the yast administrator stuff. That would turn on diagnostics for the subsystem. Then, I could turn it on for X and get something a bit better than the .xsession-errors (which showed nothing obvious for this problem) and for sound (aka "alsa" for those in the know).
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Aug 23, 2010
I am a newbie on Linux so please give me detailed answers! I am very pleased with OpenSUSE. I installed it without any problem on my desktop and it works very nice. At this time I use a dual boot system, because I still need Vista for some software but gradually I spend more and more in Linux and hopefully one day I will not need anymore Windows.
I desperately need to do some hardware upgrades. I simply want to add a new HDD, some more RAM and to replace my video card. I did this many time under Windows... could you tell me what I have to expect doing this in a dual boot system Vista + OpenSUSE 10.2 ?
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Jun 6, 2010
I am following the how to at ATI drivers - openSUSE and I am getting an error. I installed the opensuse 11.2 x64bit version and I have a Radeon x600 video card. When trying to install the propietary driver (which I guess I need to enable 3d HCL/ATI Video Cards - openSUSE) I get the following error:
administrator@linux-fsvg:~> su
Password:
linux-fsvg:/home/administrator # zypper in kernel-source linux-kernel-headers kernel-syms module-init-tools
[code]....
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Jan 3, 2010
Running OpenSuse 11.2 from live dvd. When it starts up, the screen gets filled with vertical green and black lines, with about a 1 inch square in the middle that moves as the cursor. Nothing else is visible.I've tried each of the video options, with the same result. Is there any solution to this?
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Mar 10, 2011
Just did a new install of 11.4 over top of my 11.3 and when I reboot into the OS it seems to boot just fine but the video is unreadable. When I boot into the failsafe the screen has a lot of gitter and the monitor tells me it's not in preferred mode of 1680x1050 at 60hz. All resolutions higher than 1280x1024 are unreadable. Tried booting nomodeset as I've read previous ... no luck. I'm still learning linux.
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Mar 28, 2011
Prior to updating suse was running slow. The desktop would act "weird" . It started after an update on 11.3. thought updating to 11.4 would fix everything. Last night Dled a copy of Suse 11.4 burned, checked for errors and did an update. Everything worked fine and booted to desktop. Nice shiny and new, was very happy for about a minute
Currently I get a terminal login screen when trying to boot Desktop, or failsafe ( network doesn't work on either of these 2). Xen will boot to desktop but toolbar is gone. Hit alt f2 to launch apps ( terminal, firefox, yast) and none show on screen. If I hit alt tab they show up in list.
With zen I hit CTRL+ALT+f2 and did zypper up thinking that would fix the problem. Updated successfully but same problem. Have a Nvidia 7950GTX so I selected zen, did ctrl-alt-f2 again. Launched yast, added the nvidia.com 11.4 repo and installed the 68xx newer driver. ran nvidia-xconfig and still it wouldn't boot to GUI. loaded zen again c-a-f2 - > yast found a second nvidia 68xxnewer driver, installed and now have 6 options to select at startup. 2 desktop, 2 failsafe, 2 xen.
Picked the first one and suse loaded. Yay. Ran nvidia settings to fix resolution, saved. Weird thing was only 2 of the desktops backgrounds would change, other 2 were white. Audio didn't work, usually a reboot fixes the problem so I rebooted and am back to none working except the xen login that gives me a crippled desktop ( can launch programs but none show up).
At first startup after update to 11.4 desktop backgrounds were changing really fast. Right clicked desktop went to click on desktop settings and that's when the tool bar down below disappeared ( it was working prior to that). That is when the desktop became crippled. Second tool bar at top from previous install is still there and can launch folders to open but none show on screen but show in alt - tab.
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Jun 13, 2010
OpenSuse 11.2
linux 2.6.31.12-0.2-desktop x86_64
ATI fglrx video driver v10.4
ATI radeon hd3200 video adapter
VirtualBox (any version) crashes at startup if the video acceleration options are enabled. This was not a problem before installing fglrx. The crash occurs when VirtualBox queries the video driver about OpenGL, I am guessing from the log file.
To (supposedly) have access to all of the features possible in the video adapter I installed the ATI fglrx video driver. I (apparently foolishly) chose the custom, installation-specific path rather than the more general default path.
After installing the driver I saw no observable improvement in performance or feature set. Worse, there are couple of new features that are decidedly undesirable, and cannot be disabled. At least one pre-loaded font simply disappeared.
So I reverted to the original (open source?) radeon driver ("sax2 -r -m 0=radeon" at runlevel 3). All seemed welluntil I ran VirtualBox.
One thing I have not tried is to run the fglrx default installation. I fear making things worse.
Can anyone suggest what might have happened with the fglrx installation, and how to fix it?
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Mar 30, 2011
My old desktop had a power supply that was going bad, so instead of replacing it again I decided to buy a new PC Desktop. So I ordered from TigerDirect.com and got a grodd AMD computer without a operating system on it as I didn't want that Windows 7 scheisse on it. So I downloaded SuSe 11.4 64 bit, and installed it last night.
At this point I will tell you the new PC has an NVIDIA GeForce 61100 GPU for graphics with 128 mb memory. Also I use an HP W2007 wide display monitor running 1680 by 1050 resolution, that I got over 3 years ago when I was running SuSe 10.2.
So during installation last night of 11.4 when it did the first boot after install, is when I first saw the symptom which is an illegible white screen, with about 100 3 mm lines on it. So I shut down, rebooted and brought it up safe mode and all is fine. The error screen only appears if I boot GRUB with the Desktop or Xen option and only when the boot would switch to display my desktop.
I recall a similar illegible video monitor issue when I first got the display over 3 years ago, and fixed it by changing a SuSe video configuration option, but being I am getting old and I didn't write down what the configuration file was I am at a loss. All my previous SuSe installations never had a problem as I would always choose the Update rather than new install option thus that configuration file was brought across the many releases installations. This video configuration parameter had the monitor resolution sizes in it.
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Since i have bought a new monitor, i get a boot error (opensuse 11.2). It tells me "undefined video number 375".
Then I can choose between "enter" or "scan". When I choose "enter" everything works perfectly.
My hardware:
Monitor:
ViewSonicVX2260 (full hd) connected with a hdmi cable
Video card: ATI 4670hd
Files:
This is the "menu.lst" file:
The xorg.conf file:
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openSUSE 11.2 (i586)
VERSION = 11.2
on an IBM x3250
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Can I make the blank VGA options permanent?
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With zypper refresh I get this Repository 'openSUSE-11.4-Debug' is up to date. Repository 'openSUSE-11.4-Non-Oss' is up to date. Repository 'openSUSE-11.4-Oss' is up to date. Repository 'openSUSE-11.4-Update' is up to date. Retrieving repository 'libdvdcss' metadata [error] Repository 'libdvdcss' is invalid. Download (curl) error for 'http://opensuse-guide.org/repo/11.4/content': Error code: Connection failed Error message: Couldn't resolve host 'opensuse-guide.org' Retrieving repository 'packman' metadata [error] Repository 'packman' is invalid. Download (curl) error for 'http://packman.inode.at/suse/openSUSE_11.4/content': Error code: Connection failed Error message: Couldn't resolve host 'packman.inode.at'
I was able to add other repos and install applications and upgrades (new install Gnome 11.4 64 bit on friends laptop), and Packman and Video lan are the only repos I can't refresh, any ideas?
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i7 extreme 920xm
quadro fx 1800m
am tired of windows 7 and it's deficiencies and would like to continue using this great operating system on my new computer.
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Building
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/jan-bart/Download/easycap_dc60.0.4/src'
make -C /usr/src/linux-headers-`uname -r` M=/home/jan-bart/Download/easycap_dc60.0.4/src modules
make: Entering an unknown directory
make: *** /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.31.8-0.1-desktop: No such file or directory. Stop.
make: Leaving an unknown directory
[Code]...
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I was wondering if anyone else ran into and issue with 11.3 with an IBM x3650 server using the embedded graphics card. As a reference this exact machine was working under 11.2. I am aware that there were significant changed in how video works in 11.3.
While installing and during the initial start of the operating system I can see graphical output, OPEN SUSE logo and such.
During the boot process the screen goes blank. The server is still running and I am able to ssh to the machine, but there is no access to the console.
Below is a segment of the /var/log/boot.msg that shows some errors. I can provide more logs if that would assist in tracking this down.
I did a quick google search on ES1000 and i2c and saw the same errors reported with Ubuntu version but nothing for OPENSUSE. There seemed to be a bug that was fixed in that kernel.
<6>[ 2.277737] [drm] radeon: cp idle (0x00008080)
<6>[ 2.277767] [drm] Loading R100 Microcode
<6>[ 2.277770] platform radeon_cp.0: firmware: requesting radeon/R100_cp.bin
<6>[ 2.279454] [drm] radeon: ring at 0x00000000B0000000
<6>[ 2.279476] [drm] ring test succeeded in 1 usecs
code....
This is a new install and the machine is not yet in production so I have the option to experiment with it a bit.
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