Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1495 mails)

[Mike <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 31 March 2009, peter nikolic wrote:

> > Which chipset do you have in that laptop Pete?
>
> Hi it's the radeon express 200M  integrated into the main board  a
> bit limited can only have 128 Mb Ram cant allocate any more  the bios
> wont allow it which i think is causing some of the problem  it is on
> an Compaq Presario V5030 AMD Turion 64 bit  nice machine for the
> price  nice display ect just the darn video  card is   varmint
> phoonthang

Pete,

Check the video memory type setting in the bios. On my HP, it's under 
advanced settings. There is a choice of UMA or sideport. Somewhere I 
found a reference that said to change it to UMA. Once I did that the 
ATI driver worked.

Mike


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