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I got the driver for the Diamond Viper 330 from Suse. After starting X
my screen turns black, although a mode is selected that is supported by
my Philips Brilliance 107 monitor (Autosync, Hor. 30-95 Khz, Vert
50-160).
Judging from the On Screen Display of the Monitor, the mode is
52.9Khz/99Hz.
I cannot recover from this condition: I have to reboot.

The driver from Suse seems to work in other PC's (when looking through
the news archives), so I think it has something to do with the
combination of this video card and monitor.
Has anyone run into similar problems?

Regards,
Gijsbert

: I got the driver for the Diamond Viper 330 from Suse. After starting X
: my screen turns black, although a mode is selected that is supported by
: my Philips Brilliance 107 monitor (Autosync, Hor. 30-95 Khz, Vert
: 50-160).
: Judging from the On Screen Display of the Monitor, the mode is
: 52.9Khz/99Hz.
: I cannot recover from this condition: I have to reboot.

: The driver from Suse seems to work in other PC's (when looking through
: the news archives), so I think it has something to do with the
: combination of this video card and monitor.
: Has anyone run into similar problems?

I have gotten the same problem with using SuSE's Permida2 driver on
a FireGL1000pro.  The startx output said that it got a signal 11
(that's a segmentation fault) just after starting up - the X server
died just after setting the mode.  For me, when this happens, the
keyboard is still working for the console terminals, I just can't
see anything.  So I can run some SVGA app to reset the screen without
needing to reboot.

Try this, when you start:
   startx > /tmp/startx.out 2>&1  # assumes bourne, korn, or bash shells

Then, after it messes up and you reboot, look at that /tmp/startx.out
file to see what happened.
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