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by **Markus Grei** » Mon, 23 Sep 2002 10:29:07

Hello !
I got some probs with my freshly installed Suse 8.0 system : I got as far as
past the NIC configuration etc. The system did a reboot as expected and went
up alright, until it came to starting the X server. YaST2 had proposed a

card cannot handle this : All I get is a screen full of funny colored pixels
(you cannot see a thing!). So, I thought I just go back in and set it to 256
colors an a lower frequency. And that's where I'm stuck : HOW ? do I get
back to a place where I can run SaX or so ? Have tried boot option
"vga=normal" - but that gave me the same thing. Ctrl+Alt+F1 does not give me
a text session either. In other words : Heeeeeelp ! ;-)

Thanks a lot in advance !
cheers,
Markus

by **mjt** » Mon, 23 Sep 2002 10:49:06

Quote:> colors an a lower frequency. And that's where I'm stuck : HOW ? do I get
> back to a place where I can run SaX or so ? Have tried boot option

here's what i do - and i always get a running system (avail to be
tweaked if need be). write down the make/model of your video card
and monitor including its horiz & vert frequency ranges, mouse,
and kybd. get to runlevel 3 - change to the /etc/X11 directory
and make a backup dir (something like 'save') and copy the config
files to it, then:
[bash] xf86config
answer all the questions (at the monitor ranges screen, i always
prefer to enter them manually). when finished, do a:
[bash] startx
and see what happens.

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by **Ralf Bade** » Mon, 23 Sep 2002 11:52:51

> On Sun, 22 Sep 2002 03:29:07 +0200, "Markus Grein"

>> colors an a lower frequency. And that's where I'm stuck : HOW ? do I
>> get back to a place where I can run SaX or so ? Have tried boot
>> option

> here's what i do - and i always get a running system (avail to be
> tweaked if need be). write down the make/model of your video card
> and monitor including its horiz & vert frequency ranges, mouse,
> and kybd. get to runlevel 3 - change to the /etc/X11 directory
> and make a backup dir (something like 'save') and copy the config
> files to it, then:
> [bash] xf86config

That is one way to do it. The most basic one is to edit
/etc/X11/XF86Config manually (there is a manpage, man XF86Config),
and the other extreme is sax2, which can be invoked from the command
line but doesn't always give satisfactory results.

BTW, the vga=normal boot option has nothing to do with X, but with the
resolution of the text consoles.

R.B.

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