[Scottish] SuSe 10 Installation

[Philip Ward]

I've never really tried Suse, but the following works a treat in
Debian and should work with any distro.

Get hold of Knoppix (www.knopper.net or ask here if someone going to
the meeting can provide a copy).
Knoppix usually does a good job of detecting hardware settings and
setting up a working graphics system.
Once you boot knoppix take a copy of the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file it produces.
Place this file into /etc/X11 (assuming Suse uses Xorg, rename the
file as XF86Config-4 if Suse is using XFree86) on Suse and restart
your display manager (probably kdm on Suse - /etc/init.d/kdm restart).

On 22/02/06, Robert Barbour <rlbarbour at castleventures.fsnet.co.uk> wrote:
>
>  Billy wrote:
>  If you log in as root you should be able to run "sax2" to set up the
>  graphics.  It's probably just setting the refresh rate to high for your
>  monitor.
>
> OK, I tried that ... and failed!
>
> I logged in as root, then typed SAX2 and got the blank screen, managed to read the brief message this time ...
>
> "H = 67 kHz, V = 83 Hz, Input signal out of range."
>
> I also tried "Yast2" from the root prompt, with the same blank screen result.
>
> Once the screen goes blank, switching the monitor off, then on again, gets the message on the screen (briefly).
>
> What to try next?
>
> Regards
>
> Rob
>
>
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