ST20G5 & SUSE 9.3

[Blackadder_1000]

Has anyone got SUSE 9.3 64bit working succesfully on a ST20G5?
I managed to get it installed but then it would boot to a black screen.
The only way around this was to disable the onchip USB and sound in the BIOS. But then obviously I have no way to control my USB ports or have any sound.

Also it would only detect my SATA HDD if I enabled SATA Raid in BIOS.
Anyone got any clue how to fix these probs?
Thanks

[th3_soul]

I haven't used Suse 9.3 but I have installed Fedora Core 4 & Gentoo without problems. What version of firmware are you running on the ST20G5? There were a number of kernel settings which you need to add to Grub/Lilo such as noacpi I will see if I can dig them out and post them later.

[th3_soul]

The settings I used were "noapic acpi=off" and I was able to use all my USB devices. I still have the bios set SATA Raid Enabled and I havent had a chance to play with sound. I did find some information here though if its of use:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=340638

At the bottom of the page there are links to some 2.6 Kernel Drivers.

[Blackadder_1000]

Thanks for your help

[th3_soul]

How did you get on with this? Using the information sent through has this helped get Suse up and running?

[Blackadder_1000]

I've just started uni so I havent really had time to fully explore the things said. I need to uninstall alsa (comes preinstalled) and then install it using a download so I can get my sound working. I still have issue with USB though since the startup freezes if I have the onboard USB enabled. I hope to remove the SATA raid from bios using the SATA driver included in that website link provided. Hopefully with a little more time I will have it all up and running.