On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 10:30, breakerfall wrote: Your best solve to this problem is starting with a newer distro that does support your card .. otherwise you can install without X and then use Yast 1 (console based) to download and update the package. If you are a newbie though getting online e.t.c and making your way around the console could be a bit testing.
I'm not a Suse user so I can't really give more details on Yast but the other way from console is to download the rpm file (make sure it is an update for Suse 7.2 though as newer versions may cause other problems...) here are the commands you will need wget "URL of xfree86 suse 7.2 RPM" rpm -ivh xfree86 suse 7.2 RPM 7.2 is not really supported any longer so it could be difficult to find. cheers Allan > Hi there... > > As far as unix based OSs go I'm a newbie but very interested non the > less. I have a linux distro by the name of Linux Suse 7.2pro. When > installing the OS, the coputer will freeze whenever I get to the point > where I need to test the video display [once i have set resolutions etc] > The problem, from what I can work out from looking around was that this > OS has an older versino of xfree86 which has a problem with a couple of > cards one of those being the ATI radeon chipset. > > This is rather frustrating as I believe that just a simple update of > xfree86 will solve the problem, however, I cannot even gain access to > the GUI because the X window system isn't created as I can never get > past the video config screen. > > Any help would be highly appreciated. > > Thanks > Steven > > _______________________________________________ > XFree86 mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86 -- Allan Klinbail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
