On Friday 04 April 2003 21:34, Curtis Rey wrote: <snip of reply>
One of the problems I've noticed with sax2 is not so much related to video cards but video cards and monitor inconjuction with each others. Case in point. If I setup my Nvidia GF3-ti200 with new drivers then I often times must set up the monitor again. This is especially true in the later versions of sax2. I will find that I get a black screen in many instances and have to boot to init 3 in order to use my system. I also notice that everytime I enter sax2 it tells me I have an "unknown monitor" type and I have to default to VESA modes. I find this particularly frustrating now due to the fact the XF86 4.3 has my "specific" monitor in the data base (Samsung SyncMaster 753DF/T) but I have yet to get sax2 to cooperate. And on occasion If I get the monitor to recognize correctly then the video card drivers may often kludge.... very frustrating. I often have to edit the XF86Config file by hand. I realize that your using a ATI Radeon 9500 Pro card and I suspect the current version of XF86 default with SuSE 8.1 may not play well with this per se. Upgrading to XF86 4.3 should be done carefully and with a bit of research related to fonts, and other issues some have been having (especially I would think given your mobo).
Just my $0.02 :)
Cheers, Curtis.
My experience is that if the graphics card could not be detected, then monitor detection is problematic (if it's connected to that card, though). To Redhat's credit, their hardware detection works better for me than SuSE's, and that includes my old PC. When SuSe is running, it's very nice, though. The Radeon 9x00 series has 2D accelleration in Xfree 4.3, while only Radeon 9000 has good 3D support, as far as I can rememeber. ATI used to be more picky regarding "built by" as opposed to "powered by". Cheers Sigfred