[wplug] SuSE 9.0 ??

Jonathan S. Billings billings at negate.org
Tue Mar 30 18:49:17 EST 2004


On Mar 30, 2004, at 6:42 PM, abhi s wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I have a Toshiba Satellite 2430 s-255 and i installed SuSE 9.0 on it 
> alongwith the existing Windows XP. My problem is that once I try 
> logging out of Linux, I lose the display completely, in the sense that 
> it does not return to the konsole/command line and all I can see is a 
> hazy color. But if I restart the computer then everything works fine.
>
> Has anyone else enccountered this behavior, any suggestions on how to 
> solve this?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Abhishek

Sounds like the VGA console has been messed up by the video driver.  Do 
you know what kind of video card this is?  I found one page that 
describes linux on your laptop here:
http://www.dotsimple.com/toshiba/

It suggests that you use the NVidia binary-only driver.

Jonathan




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