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