>>> On Fri, Jun 2, 2006 at 3:07 PM, in message
<200606021508.00155.rsmoot@tampabay.rr.com>, Richard Smoot
<rsmoot@tampabay.rr.com> wrote:
> I have a Dell Latitude CPx 500mhz pentium iii with an onboard ATI
Rage P/M
> Mobility AGP 2X 8mb video ram. I can not get to a graphical login
screen.
> Before I get there, the screen goes dark and starts to get light
around the
> edges and in an uneven way gradually gets all white. At final version
of
> this
> there are a few colored vertical lines on the display.
> During the install at the graphics set up nothing tested good.
>
> I can start it in safemode and get to runlevel 3 no sweat.
> I can start SAX and get a display that looks good no problem.
> Tell it OK, but when I reboot normal- same problem.
>
> When I installed SUSE10.0, I had a similar problem, but I
> can't remember how I fixed it.
> The same laptop had none of thease problems with Xandros 2.0,
> Xandros 3.0 OCE, or Simply Mepis 6.0 beta 4.
>
> Richard Smoot
You may wish to use the "instructions" at opensuse.org/Xgl (I think
that's right).
You will need to use the "beta" driver from ATI. The instructions tell
you what flags to use. The ATI proprietary driver has 10.1 as a
supported option and will compile the rpm correctly (usually).
JP
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