[ale] opensuse 10.2

[James Taylor]

If you run sax2 in runlevel 3 as root it should bring up a graphical x configuration utility.
99% of the time all you have to do is take the defaults.

The only time I've had issues is when the monitor is not properly identified, and normally that just causes a less than optimal display rather than none at all.

Once you get the opensource driver working, I would highly suggest you check out the NVidia site for their closed source driver. It works great and there are specific instruction for installing on openSUSE.

You're actually supposed to be able to install via YaST update, but I've never spent any time setting that up.

-jt


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>>> On Sun, Aug 19, 2007 at  9:24 AM, in message
<a27cb2010708190624u3b59d737p92d5443bf355517a at mail.gmail.com>, "mike barnes"
<mdb3624 at gmail.com> 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?
> 
> 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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