At 11:59:58 on Wednesday Wednesday 23 September 2009, Dave Howorth
Stan Goodman wrote:
The ATI driver came up because the openSuSE compatibility page said, without explanation, that the ATI driver was necessary. I had not noticed that the really tiny print in the web page about the prospective computer says that the machine is equipped with GMA 4500MHD graphics card,
What's puzzled me reading this thread is that nobody has commented on this apparent conflict. Stan said initially that the machine had Intel graphics and three times has said that the "openSuSE compatibility page" said an ATI driver was required, but he's consistently not given a URL.
So is it the case that there is an opensuse page somewhere that has an incorrect driver information or not?
The only conflict was in the depth of my ignorance. The specs in the advertisement did call out the GMS graphics card, and I saw that. The oS compatibility page for the same machine said very clearly that the ATI driver was required for Linux installation, and I did not know enough about the card for a warning light to flash in my head, so I accepted what the oS site told me, without further question. I apologize for my confused query, and for barking up the wrong shin. I also am glad for the delay in purchasing that my error caused. In the meantime, I found the same machine, but with Free DOS instead of the preinstalled Vista junk, therefore with a considerable improvement in price. As the saying goes, sometimes it pays to be ignorant. -- Stan Goodman Qiryat Tiv'on Israel -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org