[ale] opensuse 10.2

[James P. Kinney III]

On Sun, 2007-08-19 at 09:24 -0400, mike barnes wrote:
> James, 
> Thanks for the advise. I have modified the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file and
> change the driver to use "nv" with not effect. Is there a plain
> vanilla driver that I can try?

The driver of last resort is "vga". But you will need a low resolution
mode for it. 640x480 and 8 bit and 16 bit color.

If you set /etc/inittab runlevel to 3 instead of 5 you will not run X
from a boot. Then running startx manually will allow some more info on
the screen. Also /var/log/Xorg.<screen #>.log will have details on what
was run and what failed.

In theory, running the NVIDIA...sh (if you have the kernel source for
the running kernel) will create a working nvidia driver and modify the
xorg.conf file and make a working setup. If you run the common and
append -A --help |less you get loads of other tweaking options.
> 
> As for the USB stick,  I will have to try your suggestion. 
> 
> Thanks
> Mike Barnes
> 
> On 8/18/07, James P. Kinney III <jkinney at localnetsolutions.com> wrote:
>         I'm not a suse user but I have some ideas that may help:
>         
>         1. Get X running by hook-or-crook. By this I mean edit the
>         xorg.conf and
>         change the driver from the nvidia driver to a nv driver. The
>         nv driver
>         is in xorg and it works. You won't get the spiffy hardware
>         accellerated
>         OpenGL but you wil get X and multiple term windows. 
>         
>         It is possible that if the USB stick has no partition that
>         Linux hotplug
>         may not see it. plug it in and wait about 3-5 seconds (or
>         until the
>         light blinks on it) and run dmesg. That should tell you
>         the /dev device 
>         that is seen. Now run fdisk -l /dev/<above> to see the
>         partitions. If
>         there are none, that would explain the no automount.
>         
>         So mount it manually with mount -t
>         vfat /dev/<above> /<mountpoint> 
>         
>         On Sat, 2007-08-18 at 22:31 -0400, mike barnes wrote:
>         > I need help setting up my daughter's system. I have
>         installed 10.2 of
>         > opensuse and now need to set up the wireless card. The
>         problem is that 
>         > I do not have easy access to a ethernet connection since
>         that
>         > connection is downstairs.
>         >
>         > As far as I can tell I have 2 tasks that I need to do:
>         >
>         >    1) Install wireless driver. BTW, this is an Athreos
>         chipset. 
>         >    2) Install NVIDIA driver. Currently, I have not been able
>         to get
>         > the X dispaly working and it appears to be a driver issue.
>         But until I
>         > can get to website from her system. I can not install the
>         new driver. 
>         >
>         > I have downloaded madwifi onto a 1 GB usb stick. What I can
>         not figure
>         > out is how do I see this stick on by openSuse system so that
>         I can
>         > transfer the rpm over. BTW, I have been using the USB stick
>         on windows 
>         > systems, if this makes any difference.
>         >
>         >
>         > Thanks for any guideance and help
>         >
>         >
>         > Mike Barnes
>         >
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