On Monday 08 August 2005 3:46 pm, Carl E. Hartung wrote:
On Monday 08 August 2005 3:01 pm, Gil Weber wrote:
Deep sigh.... :o(
No good news
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Hi Gil,
I Googled your error message and did a /lot/ of reading...
First, did you ever resolve this issue on your e-machine last October? The two SLE threads are nearly identical... lots of advice from lots of experienced sources leading to no positive conclusion that I could find.
Second, the general concensus seems to be that you'd better check the hardware for either a) being defective, b) not installed correctly or c) the host system is not compatible, possibly by design. Yes, some PC brands *still* force you to buy upgrade hardware from them by building in extra special "custom improvements" that make the systems proprietary.
Finally, when you run "sax -l" (lower case 'L') you're telling it to run in basic plain vanilla VESA compliant VGA mode, which every PC card made in the world for the last decade knows how to 'speak'. In other words, when SaX2 probes and can't initialize basic VGA, you've got a fundamental hardware problem on your hands.
HTH & regards,
- Carl
Gil, That pretty much sucks. Is the system BIOS up to date? How old is this system? Could be that it can't handle the NVidia either due to BIOS or PCI incompatibilities. Carl is right on with the "sax -l" properties. If we can't get that base level going then I'd pull the new card and go back to the onboard video. Just saw your response to Carl. Will this card work in any of your machines? One way to troubleshoot it as being defective. Should work in SuSE since it is listed in sax2 as a choice. My understanding of the clone NVidia cards made by PNY and others, they have to be able to run the NVidia drivers no matter the OS since those are the only drivers available. Stan