http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/snwint_bootparameter.htmlhttp://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/snwint_bootparameter.html

describes a problem where yast2 apparently gets confused and starts vga. If I have a twin turbo card, should I then say on the boot

x11i=fbdev video=fbdev

that did not work. It still goes into vga mode and all tests fail. -- Sincerely, Allan E. Levy I worked on the IBM 650 (Tubes, 2000 Memory Drum) Contact home 301-340-7839 cell 301-742-4951 fax 301-838-9545 allan@his.com 14 Boat House Ct Gaithersburg, Md 20878

I found an old ati card around the house, 7.3 now works fine. Just to convince myself that the twinturbo would not work, I upgraded my 7.1 to 7.3 and sure enough it just goes unstable after a few logons. I guess the fbdev project is not keeping up. But I learned a lot. Thanks for the patience. At 9:20 PM +0100 12/7/01, Olaf Hering wrote:

On Thu, Dec 06, AllanL wrote:

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[1]http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/snwint_bootparameter.html

describes a problem where yast2 apparently gets confused and starts vga. If I have a twin turbo card, should I then say on the boot

x11i=fbdev video=fbdev

You should boot with the "No video driver" option.

It seeems the twin turbo card doesnt work anymore with recent kernels. There is nothing I can do, you could try to force it with a kernel parameter ala:

video=imsttfb:vmode:17,cmode:8

But it should be activated when it detects the device. The best what you can do is to try either older kernels from our ftp server. Grab the vmlinux.gz files. Extract them with Mac Gzip from suseboot:tools. ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/ppc/kernel/

I have now a lot of reports that it doesnt work anymore, so I guess your are out of luck. You could try to get another card, ATI Radeon might work.

Gruss Olaf

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-- Sincerely, Allan E. Levy I worked on the IBM 650 (Tubes, 2000 Memory Drum) Contact home 301-340-7839 cell 301-742-4951 fax 301-838-9545 allan@his.com 14 Boat House Ct Gaithersburg, Md 20878