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RE: [SLE] SuSE 8, Nvidia and limited resolution
- From: "W.D.McKinney" <deem@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 1 May 2002 08:57:36 -0800
- Message-id: <PJEKJPGDADOOEIBINDIPIEJJCNAA.deem@xxxxxxx>
On my workstation system, the only box I have 8.0 on, I use an ATI Radeon
64Meg DDR and my monitor
is a NOKIA 445PRO 21", so my experience is limited. Yast2/Sax2 did an
excellent job picking
up both and setting them up, even though it was on a Belkin OmniCube 2 Port
switch.
It had the option of 1880x1440 right out of the box. Which did not happen in
7.3, 7.2,7.1,etc.
I tried Red Hat again recently and it didn't work near as well.
I have a little experience, started with Red Hat 2.0 and their first CD
release. Been with SuSE
since the 5.0 release. Only the experienced walk with a limp.
/Dee
-----Original Message-----
From: Jamie O'Shaughnessy [mailto:jamie.oshaughnessy@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2002 12:01 AM
To: W.D.McKinney
Cc: suse-linux-e@xxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [SLE] SuSE 8, Nvidia and limited resolution
SuSE 7.3, SuSE 7.2, SuSE7.1... (No problems with Mandrake 8 either)
8.0 may support a wider range of cards, but it's pretty obvious from a
wide variety of complaints/problems on this list that Sax2 is not up to
the production quality of previous versions of SaX (and also YOU seems to
be causing some of the problems).
Jamie
On Tue, 30 Apr 2002, W.D.McKinney wrote:
> Well tell me which distro has better support for video cards please ?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Taylor [mailto:murmur@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2002 4:45 PM
> To: suse-linux-e@xxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [SLE] SuSE 8, Nvidia and limited resolution
>
>
> I have been suffering from a severe case of "buyer's remorse" over SuSE
> 8.0
> (nVidia GeForce2 GTS AGP card and Dell E771p monitor). SaX2 keeps forcing
> me
> to do hard resets. What chaps me is that Red Hat 7.2 installed
flawlessly.
>
> I finally figured out to tell SaX2 not to calculate modelines. But I
have
> no idea what the differences are between CheckDesktopGeometry,
> IteratePrecisely, or UseFramebufferTiming. Where is this stuff
documented?
>
> How seriously should I take the warning not to edit the XF86Config file?
> Does SaX2 maintain its own information somewhere else?
>
> Thanks,
> Peter Taylor
>
>
>
--
Jamie O'Shaughnessy jamie.oshaughnessy@xxxxxxxxxxxx
64Meg DDR and my monitor
is a NOKIA 445PRO 21", so my experience is limited. Yast2/Sax2 did an
excellent job picking
up both and setting them up, even though it was on a Belkin OmniCube 2 Port
switch.
It had the option of 1880x1440 right out of the box. Which did not happen in
7.3, 7.2,7.1,etc.
I tried Red Hat again recently and it didn't work near as well.
I have a little experience, started with Red Hat 2.0 and their first CD
release. Been with SuSE
since the 5.0 release. Only the experienced walk with a limp.
/Dee
-----Original Message-----
From: Jamie O'Shaughnessy [mailto:jamie.oshaughnessy@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2002 12:01 AM
To: W.D.McKinney
Cc: suse-linux-e@xxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [SLE] SuSE 8, Nvidia and limited resolution
SuSE 7.3, SuSE 7.2, SuSE7.1... (No problems with Mandrake 8 either)
8.0 may support a wider range of cards, but it's pretty obvious from a
wide variety of complaints/problems on this list that Sax2 is not up to
the production quality of previous versions of SaX (and also YOU seems to
be causing some of the problems).
Jamie
On Tue, 30 Apr 2002, W.D.McKinney wrote:
> Well tell me which distro has better support for video cards please ?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Taylor [mailto:murmur@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2002 4:45 PM
> To: suse-linux-e@xxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [SLE] SuSE 8, Nvidia and limited resolution
>
>
> I have been suffering from a severe case of "buyer's remorse" over SuSE
> 8.0
> (nVidia GeForce2 GTS AGP card and Dell E771p monitor). SaX2 keeps forcing
> me
> to do hard resets. What chaps me is that Red Hat 7.2 installed
flawlessly.
>
> I finally figured out to tell SaX2 not to calculate modelines. But I
have
> no idea what the differences are between CheckDesktopGeometry,
> IteratePrecisely, or UseFramebufferTiming. Where is this stuff
documented?
>
> How seriously should I take the warning not to edit the XF86Config file?
> Does SaX2 maintain its own information somewhere else?
>
> Thanks,
> Peter Taylor
>
>
>
--
Jamie O'Shaughnessy jamie.oshaughnessy@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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