Hello all. (Brand-new OpenSUSE user here.)
I've just installed OpenSUSE 13.1 on an older Dell PowerEdge 840 and all is well except that with the normal boot, an off-color splash screen of the lizard/vine appears and then the screen goes black and the computer goes into power-saving mode. I then have to re-boot.
If I press escape during the boot (or boot in recovery mode), it boots properly. The messages scrolling by all have green "OK" labels.
I strongly suspect the issue is the video driver (for ATI on this system).
I have tried the instructions here: http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Radeon -- and the test "gears" program does run correctly, although the terminal gives the following error: "libGL error: failed to load driver: radeon".
A Debian admin agrees that it's a video driver issue (saying the ATI ES1000 video chip on the system is old and does not support the 3D graphics used in start-up) and suggested adding the parameter "video=1024x768@60" to the GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT option in /etc/default/grub and then running the command "update-grub" in the terminal.
However, "update-grub" generates an invalid-command error in OpenSUSE (although it apparently works in Debian).
Does anyone know the equivalent in OpenSUSE? Or is there a better approach to resolving this driver issue?
Thank you!
I've just installed OpenSUSE 13.1 on an older Dell PowerEdge 840 and all is well except that with the normal boot, an off-color splash screen of the lizard/vine appears and then the screen goes black and the computer goes into power-saving mode. I then have to re-boot.
If I press escape during the boot (or boot in recovery mode), it boots properly. The messages scrolling by all have green "OK" labels.
I strongly suspect the issue is the video driver (for ATI on this system).
I have tried the instructions here: http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Radeon -- and the test "gears" program does run correctly, although the terminal gives the following error: "libGL error: failed to load driver: radeon".
A Debian admin agrees that it's a video driver issue (saying the ATI ES1000 video chip on the system is old and does not support the 3D graphics used in start-up) and suggested adding the parameter "video=1024x768@60" to the GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT option in /etc/default/grub and then running the command "update-grub" in the terminal.
However, "update-grub" generates an invalid-command error in OpenSUSE (although it apparently works in Debian).
Does anyone know the equivalent in OpenSUSE? Or is there a better approach to resolving this driver issue?
Thank you!