** Reply to message from Felix Miata <mrmazda@ij.net> on Tue, 09 Aug 2005 21:42:06 -0400 Hello again, everyone. More interesting news to report on my continuing search for better video resolution. :o) Felix wrote:
Knoppix 3.4 uses a 2.4 kernel and XFree86. Knoppix is very highly optimized for speed to compensate for running off a CD. However, Knoppix happily running proves Gil's complaints about slowness are obviously valid, & so we just need to home in on solution(s) now that we know Linux can be fast on his hardware.
I managed to put my hands on another PCI video card (emphasizing again, that's PCI, and not PCI-e). This one is a Genesis SV+ S3 Virge/DX. It is and older card but it is identified correctly by SuSE 9.3. Howver, just as with the other PCI video card I cannot access a configuration screen for the video card or my monitor. I get the same error message as I have reported several times: <ups lost card during probing... abort> 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? If not, is it possible that there is simply an incompatibility between SuSE and some/many/all PCI video cards? Is there something fundamentally conflicted in the code that renders all PCI video cards non-configurable? For the moment in order to get some work done I have switched back to the on-board chip at 1024X768. I can scroll smoothly in my web browsers and documents. I can move windows and resize them without the windows repainting. Everything is fine even though the resolution is not what I'd really like. However, given what I've been through the past few days I can live with this if this is as good as it can be. 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