Eberhard Roloff wrote:

clive wrote:

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Hello Group,

Had my old motherboard SIS chip set go down last week. The motherboard died and took my Athlon 2400 XP with it.

Now I have an ASUS motherboard with on board VIA*Delta Chrome graphics. <snip> Best wishes,

Clive. From my experience, it is not really Asus to be blamed (ok, I know, this is an unpopular statement) but it is your onboard VIA Delta Chrome stuff. Okay, lastly it might be your lousy day since you bought such a board. ;-))

My advice: Change that and buy a graphics adapter from Nvidia (well ATI is working, as well). Even if you use the cheapest GPU, that money can buy you, you will get WAY MORE performance and you can forget about your trouble.

just my 0.2 cents Eberhard

FWIW (not even 0.2 of a cent :) I have an MSI board with onboard VIA Chrome. I had continual problems - mouse suddenly shooting to a corner of the screen, video flicker etc - that all went away when I bought a cheap nvidia card. So I second Eberhard's advice if you can afford it. Cheers, Dave -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Eberhard Roloff wrote:

Dave Howorth wrote:

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Eberhard Roloff wrote:

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clive wrote:

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Hello Group,

Had my old motherboard SIS chip set go down last week. The motherboard died and took my Athlon 2400 XP with it.

Now I have an ASUS motherboard with on board VIA*Delta Chrome graphics. <snip> Best wishes,

Clive. From my experience, it is not really Asus to be blamed (ok, I know, this is an unpopular statement) but it is your onboard VIA Delta Chrome stuff. Okay, lastly it might be your lousy day since you bought such a board. ;-))

My advice: Change that and buy a graphics adapter from Nvidia (well ATI is working, as well). Even if you use the cheapest GPU, that money can buy you, you will get WAY MORE performance and you can forget about your trouble.

just my 0.2 cents Eberhard FWIW (not even 0.2 of a cent :) I have an MSI board with onboard VIA Chrome. I had continual problems - mouse suddenly shooting to a corner of the screen, video flicker etc - that all went away when I bought a cheap nvidia card. So I second Eberhard's advice if you can afford it.

Cheers, Dave Dave, your firsthand experience is worth way more that 0.2 of a cent :-)))).

Well, as much as I hate to say it. I know positively that onboard VIA chrome in all fairness works "ok" with Win XP when you use the VIA drivers. I do not know about Vista though.

By "ok" I mean that it works faultlessly, as long as you accept that 3D Acceleration is somewhere between lousy and non-existent.

regards Eberhard

Thank you for you answers. I have tried a couple more things since I dropped line to the list. I found a page detailing how to use an rpm for unichrome on SuSE 10.1 and 10.2 but this has not worked out. Does SuSE handle PCI Express cards ? As my motherboard does not have an AGP slot onboard. Best wishes, Clive. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

* clive [09-06-07 14:05]:

Does SuSE handle PCI Express cards ? As my motherboard does not have an AGP slot onboard.

Certainly, I have a nVidia 7200 PCI Express card installed in this machine. -- Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA HOG # US1244711 http://wahoo.no-ip.org Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2 Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://counter.li.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

clive wrote:

Eberhard Roloff wrote:

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Dave Howorth wrote:

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Eberhard Roloff wrote:

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clive wrote:

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Hello Group,

Had my old motherboard SIS chip set go down last week. The motherboard died and took my Athlon 2400 XP with it.

Now I have an ASUS motherboard with on board VIA*Delta Chrome graphics I do not have the Delta Chrome graphics but I did just purchase an ASUS M2NPV-VM with 3Gig of memory. This board has an AMD 5000+ dual core 64 CPU on it and it rather screams. It has a gigabit internal NIC, Nvidia chipset for video, a TV adapter and a 'fake raid' controller with up to raid 5 support built in. SuSE 10.3 starting with A5 has excellent support for this board including the sound which was the only real deficiency with earlier Alphas. IMO, it is a significant 'real deal' and the only external driver you would need would be if you wanted 3d support for the video, otherwise, Beta 3 supports the MB in every way of importance with no bit-diddling required.

Richard -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

clive wrote:

Patrick and Richard,

Thank you for your quick answers.

Doing a Google search turned up 10.3 Beta3 is only available through torrent. Is there an iso that I can download anywhere ? www.opensuse.org has isos as of today.

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