MSI Geforce Cards Nforce 2 mainboard with SuSE 9.0?
Hello folks, I recently upgraded to SuSE 9.0 from 8.2. I attempted to install it on my MSI K7N2G Nforce 2 board, only to find that it wouldn't install unless I disabled the onboard sound completely (it would freeze solid at the sound configuration stage and FUBAR the installation, but that doesn't have much to do with X, so I won't go into it right now). The nv driver worked fine at first, then I found Mozilla 1.4 would lock up when trying to type into the address bar when at a resolution of 1600x1200@85hz. I went to the Nvidia drivers, only to find that installing them using YAST resulted in X trying to start up, only to lock the machine up solid at a black screen, until I rebooted into recovery mode and forced it to boot to runlevel 3, then set it back to nv. Thinking it was a BIOS issue perhaps, I updated to the newest BIOS for the motherboard. After this, nv "flickers", especially when viewing mpegs and such. Odd spikes of color will flash across the screen randomly, like there's a glitch in the refresh. So, dreading it, I went to Yast online update and installed the update again (the 4496 version). This time it worked, but instead of coming up in 1600x1200@24bit with an 85hz refresh, it came up in 1152x864 with a virtual resolution of 1600x1200! I went to Yast and reconfigured it, even though it said it was at 1600x1200, and tested it, only to get the test screen at 1152x864 again with the 1600x1200 virtual resolution. Checking the virtual resolution settings again, it showed the resolution set to 1600x1200 with virtual resolution set to 1600x1200. I disabled all resolutions under Yast except for 1600x1200, and it came up when testing in 1400x1050 resolution with a godawful 60hz refresh rate! Then I tried enabling 1280x1024 resolution with everything lower enabled, and I ended up with 1024x768 resolution! Thus far the best I can get is a 1280x1024 resolution with a miserable 75hz refresh rate, when this monitor (Sony G420 19" monitor, and it's configured as such in Yast) will do 100+hz refresh at this resolution, and 85hz at 1600x1200, which I prefer. Now I can't even get the flicker-prone nv driver back, which at least did 1600x1200@85hz like it's supposed to. All it does is chuck itself into some funky resolution where it chops off half the screen and no amount of fiddling with the screen controls will bring the other half up. I tried to disable APIC by adding noapic into the Grub config files then installed the Nvidia 5328 driver. The video corruption switching to vterms is gone (though I have it forced to runlevel 3, then run X manually) but whenever I try to up the resolution to 1600x1200 at 24bit at 85hz refresh, all it does it drop me back to 1400x1050@60hz. If I enable anything lower than that, it drops me to 1024x786@85hz, all the time Yast is swearing that it's running 1600x1200. Anyone have any ideas? Every single update from the YAST online update is applied, kernel 2.4.21-144-athlon. I'm wondering if Yast is messing up the configuration or something. Thanks a lot, MattB
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Matt Beazer