Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1377 mails)

[Anthony.Schlemmer@xxxxxxx (Anthony Schlemmer)]

Adrian Coman wrote:
> 
> I just installed Suse 4.4.1 (kernel 2.0.29) and have 2 problems. Soundcard
> (ESS ES1688, SB compatible) works, but audio CD's are played with inferior
> sound quality. Second problem: graphics card is a S3Virge 325 with 4M, but
> cannot get it to work with more than 8bpp at 1024x768. If I force X to
> start with more than 8bpp colors (with DefaultColorDepth in XF86Config), I
> get only 800x600.
> 
> Even so, SuSE is a great distribution.
> 
> Adrian
> 
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I can't help on the sound card problem. I have a cheap and uninteresting
genuine SB 16 PnP card. It's not the greatest but I can play CDs. I have
some cheap no name amplified speakers connected to my SB 16 card and so
the sound is not that great.

Have you looked at the output that the X server is printing out when you
start id? This is very useful in trying to determine what the problem
is. Also, make sure in the part of your XF86Config file you having
something like this in your screen section. I think that it might be
possible to have more than one mode listed but I always run my system in
1024x768 and so this is a portion of my /etc/XF86Config file. 

Section "Screen"
 .
 .
 .
SubSection "Display"
  Depth        16
  Modes        "1024x768"
EndSubSection 

I'm running SuSE 5.2 with XFree86 3.3.2 which may be a different version
than what shipped with SuSE 4.4.1. I have a Diamond Stealth 2000 card
which uses the S3 ViRGE chipset and it runs with a color depth of 16bpp
with the XFree86 SVGA server.

Tony


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