From mdb@n-jcenter.com Sat Dec 5 22:22:13 1998 From: mdb@n-jcenter.com To: users@lists.opensuse.org Subject: [SuSE Linux] video card problem Date: Sat, 05 Dec 1998 17:22:13 -0500 Message-ID: <002301be209d$b62e6240$0202a8c0@nj2.n-jcenter.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============8016880644590918705==" --===============8016880644590918705== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable i'm trying to run x on my 300 mhz gateway g-6 it has a nvidia 4meg video card installed in an AGP slot(at least i assume it's agp...it's not a pci, and not the big isa's....) i've managed to get x running...sort of. it only runs in 320x200, virtual 320x204. the problem seems to be that a pci scan doesn't pick up my video card...which doesn't surprise me, but how can i get this to work? i've got an older Rage II +DVD card, which i experimented with this afternoon. i can get x running well under it, but i don't have the drivers to run it under win95...if all else fails, i'll dig them up somewhere. anyway, while i was experimenting, i used sax to setup x for use with the nvidia card, but once i pulled the rage card, and tried to go back to using the nvidia card, x still won't run right. i tinkered with the XF86Config file, setting the default color depth and such, but to no avail. under 16, 24, and 32, it won't run at all, but using 8 it goes back to running in the 320x200 mode i mentioned earlier. does anyone know if AGP cards will run x? has anyone had any luck running x on a gateway with the included video card? perhaps i've missed a howto on agp cards, or something.... thanks, -derek - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <= A HREF=3D"http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/http://www.suse.com/Suppo= rt/Doku/FAQ/> and the archiv at htt= p://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html> --===============8016880644590918705==-- From EGRETLURES@kricket.net Sun Dec 6 00:00:47 1998 From: EGRETLURES@kricket.net To: users@lists.opensuse.org Subject: RE: [SuSE Linux] video card problem Date: Sat, 05 Dec 1998 18:00:47 -0600 Message-ID: <000001be20ab$7a543cf0$64c3a1d0@egret1> In-Reply-To: <002301be209d$b62e6240$0202a8c0@nj2.n-jcenter.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============5237583933323275520==" --===============5237583933323275520== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I have an AGP STB Velocity 128/4mb on a Dell and when I installed 5.3 I used SAX. The board was found and I configured to 1024x768x16bit and everything went just fine. -----Original Message----- From: owner-suse-linux-e@suse.com [mailto:owner-suse-linux-e@suse.com] On Behalf Of Rev. Michael Derek Barnett Sent: Saturday, December 05, 1998 4:22 PM To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: [SuSE Linux] video card problem i'm trying to run x on my 300 mhz gateway g-6 it has a nvidia 4meg video card installed in an AGP slot(at least i assume it's agp...it's not a pci, and not the big isa's....) i've managed to get x running...sort of. it only runs in 320x200, virtual 320x204. the problem seems to be that a pci scan doesn't pick up my video card...which doesn't surprise me, but how can i get this to work? i've got an older Rage II +DVD card, which i experimented with this afternoon. i can get x running well under it, but i don't have the drivers to run it under win95...if all else fails, i'll dig them up somewhere. anyway, while i was experimenting, i used sax to setup x for use with the nvidia card, but once i pulled the rage card, and tried to go back to using the nvidia card, x still won't run right. i tinkered with the XF86Config file, setting the default color depth and such, but to no avail. under 16, 24, and 32, it won't run at all, but using 8 it goes back to running in the 320x200 mode i mentioned earlier. does anyone know if AGP cards will run x? has anyone had any luck running x on a gateway with the included video card? perhaps i've missed a howto on agp cards, or something.... thanks, -derek - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <= A HREF=3D"http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/http://www.suse.com/Suppo= rt/Doku/FAQ/> and the archiv at htt= p://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html> - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <= A HREF=3D"http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/http://www.suse.com/Suppo= rt/Doku/FAQ/> and the archiv at htt= p://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html> --===============5237583933323275520==--