Any way to change video card drivers in text mode with Suse 9.3?

[Bupkus]

I must hand it to Red Hat.  After reading your post I decided to stop 
blaming it on the hardware or corrupted CDs and try to use 
system-config-display.  Before I could get to it, fedora notified me 
that it couldn't start X and asked if I'd like to reconfigure?  Duhhh!  
As it turned out I'm looking at the first good install I've done all 
day, and I do mean ALL day.
Now I've got to get the other box working with suse, if I'm really up to 
it.

Joseph Sinclair wrote:

>Sounds like you're dealing with a common LCD issue, Fedora is selecting a video mode based on your video card, but with an LCD you MUST use the single resolution supported by the screen.
>LCD monitors don't do well with pixel scaling, so any resolution other than the monitor's physical resolution tends to look blurred at best, and completely garbled at worst.
>>From the Matrox site, it looks like a max resolution of 1280X1024 is supported for DVI flat panels, this would be at 120 Hz refresh.
>Check your monitor manual to see what it wants in terms of resolution and refresh, and *make sure* your system settings match.
>Also, since the G550 is a dual-head card, make sure you're set up with the flat-panel on the primary connector, and use DVI if possible.
>What do you have set up as the second display, if any?
>
>On Fedora, you might also try booting to text mode console and running "system-config-display"  to see if that will work for you.
>
>Bupkus wrote:
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>>Bart Garst wrote:
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>>>>I installed suse 9.3 and did the updates, sans the kernel update, and
>>>>booting gives me a blank, black screen.
>>>>
>>>>I booted into failsafe (text) mode and there it is.
>>>>
>>>>I'm thinking that suse just doesn't like my PNY MX440SE video card, so I
>>>>swapped it out for my Matrox G550.
>>>>Yep,
>>>>linux login: _  blink, blink, blink... and I don't know what to do.
>>>>
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>>>I've been kinda' following your 'adventures' with Suse and I'd would
>>>like to
>>>ask if you can clarify a couple things.
>>>
>>>You were able to install and have a functioning GUI display with vid card
>>>"A" and monitor "A".
>>>
>>>At some point you switched to monitor "B" and lost your display.
>>>At some other point your switched to vid card "B" and also lost your
>>>display.
>>>
>>>During the course of one of these failures you ran a config tool and lost
>>>the ability to go back to monitor "A" & vid card "A".
>>>
>>>Do I understand correctly?
>>>
>>>Bart
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>>Yes.  But to be most current I just installed Fedora 4 and had to do a
>>text install because the graphics was way off focus and jittery.  After
>>the install and booting into graphics mode it because illegible again. 
>>I think I may have a bunch of hardware that no linux distribution likes.
>>mobo: epox 8RDA+
>>video card: Matrox G550
>>I think I'm just gonna watch TV and have dinner for the rest of the
>>evening.
>>Thanks.
>>I went to the installfest but apparently you needed to bring your own
>>monitor, keyboard, mouse, cables, wires, etc, so I didn't install there.
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