** Reply to message from "Carl E. Hartung" <suselinux@cehartung.com> on Wed, 10 Aug 2005 10:28:07 -0400 (snipping)
Hi Gil,
I think your SuSE graphics card configuration files are corrupted; that the condition is probably a holdover from your previous unsuccessful card installation attempts. (Maybe some manual 'tweaking' or 'fine-tuning', too?)
The error message "ups lost card during probing... abort" from SaX2 appears now regardless of the card installed, right? (please confirm)
Correct. Both video cards result in the same error message.
But Knoppix configures and runs.
Correct. Both video cards run under Knoppix.
To me, that indicates that SaX2 is grabbing configuration data that it *thinks* is appropriate but isn't, so when it goes out to initialize the hardware it can't communicate with it and aborts.
But it happens even when I do an absolutely clean install.
I wish I knew which files needed to be repaired or restored and what the best procedure would be to accomplish that, at this point, but I guess I'm going to have to sit back and learn right along with ya! OK?