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Re: [SLE] SuSE 8, Nvidia and limited resolution
On Tuesday 30 April 2002 07:44 pm, I wrote:
>
> 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?

That's not right either. After many more crashes, I reinstalled from
scratch using "safe settings," and had no problem with the "nv" driver. I
was never asked whether to calculate modelines.

Now my only obvious problem is no sound, and again I am chapped that it
worked fine when I installed Red Hat 7.2 .

Peter Taylor

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