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Inspiron 1501 - Display Problems
Hello, I have just installed openSUSE 11.0 on my laptop and whenever I boot into normal mode, when turning on the X-Window system, the LCD display turns off. When going into the safe mode feature, it incorrectly displays the video card information. I do consider myself experienced at Linux and have been using it for many years so if any one has a solution if they can please tell me it. Thanks!
Message Edited by CyberXZT on 07-02-2008 09:56 AM
PhillyFloyd
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July 2nd, 2008 14:00
What do you mean by, "the safe mode feature."?
What does the PCI bus report your video card as: lspci
(your cmd might differ depending on distro)
Also, what does /var/log/Xorg.0.log show when the X server starts up?
Finally, post /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Thanks
CyberXZT
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July 3rd, 2008 01:00
Hope its ok to post links, but here...
http://zineserver.com/files/linux/Xorg.0.log
http://zineserver.com/files/linux/xorg.conf
http://zineserver.com/files/linux/lspci.txt
It displays my display adapter wrong, but trying anything else screws it up more.
Edit: Its actually "FailSafe" and it runs a bunch of command lines to make sure it at least starts.
PhillyFloyd
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July 3rd, 2008 15:00
Ugh I stink with ATI cards ... you may want to try:
http://slashhome.wordpress.com/2007/10/24/fglrx-ati-drivers-842-on-opensuse-103/
not sure what driver raedon is, you may wish to change that with fglrx driver as it seems to be the choice for those with your card.
CyberXZT
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July 3rd, 2008 23:00
PhillyFloyd
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July 4th, 2008 15:00
excellent ... the FOSS drivers for ATI cards aren't as fleshed-out as the NVIDIA ones...the fglrx is the proprietary version (closed-source) from ATI so it should almost *always* work with some tweaking of xorg.conf
enjoy