On Tue, 3 May 2005, JB wrote:
On Tuesday 03 May 2005 18:38, Sid Boyce wrote:
I'm particularly interested in FX5200 and FX5500 experiences on 9.3. The list has been so quiet on this topic that either everyone is waiting for me to try it first or you are all dumbstruck and saddened by it. The NVidia forum has lots of postings, GeForce2 MMX? cards seem to cause the most problems still. I'm on page 6 and there have been few successes reported, though many problems seem to be misconfigured stuff. Regards Sid.
My card is an FX5200 and it works fine with the 7167 in 9.3, with no problems whatsoever installing it, by installing it the regular way (boot to console, init 3, MC, etc...). Didn't know there was a newer one, but since mine's working fine, I don't think I need it.
The only "funny" with my FX5200 is a stange interaction between the nVidia driver, X server, and the KDE window manager when my ViewSonic VP201m is in 1600x1200 mode. Given a window frame touches the top edge of the screen and the top edge of the kicker bar. If you click maximze widget and then the restore widget the window will not be restored to its original size. The vertical height of the window frame will be reduced so that the bottom of the frame is within 768 pixels less the height of the kicker bar from the top edge of the display. If the bottom edge of the frame doesn't touch the top of the kicker bar, it behaves as expected. If the top edge of the frame doesn't touch the top edge of the display while the bottom edge of the frame touches the kicker bar, it will also work as expected. This behviour doesn't occur on a similar system where a Matrox graphics adapter is used. The problem first appeared in SuSE 9.2 with the X11 server update that was distributed at the end of February. Merton Campbell Crockett -- BEGIN: vcard VERSION: 3.0 FN: Merton Campbell Crockett ORG: General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems; Intelligence and Exploitation Systems N: Crockett;Merton;Campbell EMAIL;TYPE=internet: mcc@CATO.GD-AIS.COM TEL;TYPE=work,voice,msg,pref: +1(805)497-5045 TEL;TYPE=work,fax: +1(805)497-5050 TEL;TYPE=cell,voice,msg: +1(805)377-6762 END: vcard