[ale] opensuse 10.2

[mike barnes]

James,
Thanks for the advise. I have modified the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file and
change the driver to use "nv" with not effect. Is there a plain vanilla
driver that I can try?

As for the USB stick,  I will have to try your suggestion.

Thanks
Mike Barnes

On 8/18/07, James P. Kinney III <jkinney at localnetsolutions.com> wrote:
>
> I'm not a suse user but I have some ideas that may help:
>
> 1. Get X running by hook-or-crook. By this I mean edit the xorg.conf and
> change the driver from the nvidia driver to a nv driver. The nv driver
> is in xorg and it works. You won't get the spiffy hardware accellerated
> OpenGL but you wil get X and multiple term windows.
>
> It is possible that if the USB stick has no partition that Linux hotplug
> may not see it. plug it in and wait about 3-5 seconds (or until the
> light blinks on it) and run dmesg. That should tell you the /dev device
> that is seen. Now run fdisk -l /dev/<above> to see the partitions. If
> there are none, that would explain the no automount.
>
> So mount it manually with mount -t vfat /dev/<above> /<mountpoint>
>
> On Sat, 2007-08-18 at 22:31 -0400, mike barnes wrote:
> > I need help setting up my daughter's system. I have installed 10.2 of
> > opensuse and now need to set up the wireless card. The problem is that
> > I do not have easy access to a ethernet connection since that
> > connection is downstairs.
> >
> > As far as I can tell I have 2 tasks that I need to do:
> >
> >    1) Install wireless driver. BTW, this is an Athreos chipset.
> >    2) Install NVIDIA driver. Currently, I have not been able to get
> > the X dispaly working and it appears to be a driver issue. But until I
> > can get to website from her system. I can not install the new driver.
> >
> > I have downloaded madwifi onto a 1 GB usb stick. What I can not figure
> > out is how do I see this stick on by openSuse system so that I can
> > transfer the rpm over. BTW, I have been using the USB stick on windows
> > systems, if this makes any difference.
> >
> >
> > Thanks for any guideance and help
> >
> >
> > Mike Barnes
> >
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