Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4344 mails)

[Stan Glasoe <srglasoe@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 09 August 2005 11:13 pm, Gil Weber wrote:
> 	And so it raises this question to the list: Is anyone out there
> successfully running **any** PCI video card (PCI, not PCI-e) with SuSE
> 9.2 or 9.3?
<snip>
> 	I am really interested in finding out if anyone has had success with any
> PCI video card. Maybe this entire exercise has been doomed from the
> start? If so, at least we've all learned something!  :o)
>
> 	Thanks, everyone.
> 	Gil

PCI video cards work fine with all versions of SuSE in systems I deal with - 
except for yours Gil! Sheesh.

If these 2 cards work in another system then its the mainboard in this 
eMachine system. Things to verify would be having the latest/last BIOS 
version for this system, reset/clear the BIOS and set only those settings 
you want for the PCI video card (onboard video disabled, PCI vs AGP if 
there is a choice, PCI bus master, etc). ACPI or APM disabled in BIOS to 
test. Remove any other PCI cards in the system for testing.

Are you trying Safe Mode settings at boot time? Either installing or via the 
boot command line? Especially acpi=off. I believe Knoppix tests the 
BIOS/ACPI date and if its before 2002 automatically disables acpi. SuSE 
enables acpi by default on every system I've installed it on. Just a clue 
to work with here.

Stan