Xorg ruined after hibernation with FireGL V5200 (SuSE 10.2)

[Troels]

Hello,

I have accidentally closed the lid on my T60p running OpenSuSE 10.2 using the FGLRX driver. Due to this, Xorg crashes during login and i am returned to the login textmode screen.
If that wasn't enough text is suddenly all fuzzy, and nearly unreadable.
I'm really getting fed up with ATi in general and their subpar hardware and even more subpar drivers.
Starting X again from the terminal i'm greeted with the grey background and "X"-shape black cursor.

I tried to do a Xorg -configure but the screen is just blank, and nothing happens.

When doing a X-config /root/xorg.conf.new i get a near unreadable menu where i can configure what looks to be screen, monitor and card. I chose "card", and i was presented with a list with video card drivers to use. As fglrx obviously wasn't available, i choose "radeon". I couldn't see if i managed to save the settings or not.

Then i ran "xorgcfg -textmode" but i didn't configure anything there.
Now when i run "X" it does not find a monitor.

So what should i do now?
Does anyone have a copy of a T60p Xorg.conf file they could send me - for OpenSUSE 10.2?

[Harryc]

At the grub boot screen select safe mode boot. At the command prompt logon as your user then su to root. Run the following command, then test, save reboot.

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sax2 -m 0=vesa

If you can boot into X, reinstall the fglrx driver from scratch.

[Troels]

Thank you very much
It worked a charm.

[Harryc]

Thank you very much
It worked a charm.

Anytime. Good luck with Opensuse and check out 10.3 in October.
http://en.opensuse.org/Roadmap/10.3