[wellylug] Sis 760gx setup

[Alex Thomson]

Steve Macdonald wrote:
> Jethro Carr wrote:
>   
>> On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 09:47 +1300, Alex Thomson wrote:
>>   
>>     
>>> Steve Macdonald wrote:
>>>     
>>>       
>>>> Ok I have come across a link that will allow me to get the most out of
>>>> the graphics card on my laptop which is a Sis 760gx card. The link is
>>>> http://www.winischhofer.eu/linuxsisvga.shtml
>>>>
>>>> Now I have downloaded the file but it mentions stopping xorg, how do I
>>>> do that, and when it comes to restarting how do I do that.
>>>>
>>>> Ohhh I am running suse 10.2 on this laptop.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers
>>>>
>>>> Steve
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>       
>>>>         
>>> Hi Steve,
>>>
>>> The way I stop X is by editing /etc/inittab (you will need to be root to 
>>> do this).  There will be a couple of lines near the top that would look 
>>> something like:
>>>
>>> # The default runlevel.
>>> id:5:initdefault:
>>>
>>> Now the runlevel where X gets started varies from distro (it used to be 
>>> pretty standard, but Ubuntu has messed this up a bit), but is usually 4 
>>> or up.  On Suse, try changing the 5 to a 3, which will not start the X 
>>> on startup.  When you have done your command-line hacking, change this 
>>> back to 5 and reboot again.
>>>
>>> I am sure there are other ways too, but I find this pretty safe & simple.
>>>     
>>>       
>> there's a MUCH easier way, which doesn't require a reboot. :-)
>>
>> 1) Log out of X (gnome/kde/whatever)
>>
>> 2) Press: CTL+ALT+F1
>>
>> 3) Login as root
>>
>> 4) run init 3
>>
>> 5) Do your stuff
>>
>> 6) run init 5
>>
>> and you'll be back at X.
>>
>> Step 2 takes you to the CLI. Step 4 takes you to run level 3, which
>> kills the GUI. step 6 takes you to run level 5 which starts the gui.
>>
>>
>> The only time you should reboot a Linux box is to change the kernel -
>> everything else can be restarted as a service. :-)
>>   
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>>     
> Thanks for that, I managed to install the file into the right location as stated on the website, but when rebooting the laptop it would not boot into kde, I could boot into the safemode though. When trying to boot into kde it would just hang with a black screen and give no error messages. 
>
> If anyone is keen to look at this laptop and help solve this for me I would be willing to pay for it. 
>
>
>   

 From the black screen are you able to ctrl+alt+f1 to a console and open 
/var/logs/Xorg.0.log?  Does it have any warnings or errors in here?


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