Hello, everyone. Here is a report on what I've learned about my crazy video card and monitor situation today. This reply combines several of your posts. Gil Current status: PNY GeForce FX 5500 PCI video card is installed. BIOS is set to "PCI." Card is in slot nearest to powersupply. I did NOT install the nVidia driver when I did the on-line update. suse list post #1 Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2005 10:56:10 -0500 From: Stan Glasoe <srglasoe@comcast.net> To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] Just installed 9.3 and having some problems with video card and monitor -- any ideas?
The only additional thing I believe is to make sure that "nv" is replaced with "nvidia" in the "Device" section of the /etx/X11/xorg.conf file for 3D support.
Stan, as I noted above, I did not install the nVidia driver. However, when I looked in /etc/X11/xorg.conf there was no mention of an "nv" either. In fact neither the video card nor the monitor is identified in xorg.conf. Here are the results for the "Section Device": # Device Sections... # ------------------- Section "Device" Driver "ChangeMe" Identifier "Device[0]" BusID "2:10:0" # device_options Option "sw_cursor" "on" EndSection Section "Device" Driver "fbdev" Identifier "Device[fbdev]" BusID "2:10:0" # fbdev_options Option "ShadowFB" "off" EndSection Section "Device" Driver "vesa" #Option "DefaultRefresh" Identifier "Device[vesa]" EndSection Section "Device" Driver "vmware" Identifier "Device[vmware]" EndSection ==== suse list post #2 Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 10:33:30 -0400 From: "Carl E. Hartung" <suselinux@cehartung.com> To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] Just installed 9.3 and having some problems with video card and monitor -- any ideas?
Have you acted on Ken's recommendation to move your current X config file(s) to .old and running SaX2 again?
Boot to run level 3, log in as root and run "sax -l" (no quotes; lowercase L'). If you get an error message instead of SaX2, post it back here so we can troubleshoot it.
Let me clarify what needs to be done so we're all working on the same page:
*First* you must make it so SaX2 will just run, period, instead of aborting. You should be doing this with the on-board graphics enabled and your upgrade card set to the side.
*Then* you can try to figure out how to make your upgrade hardware work. We've made progress by clearly identifying all the components, but *now* is the time to get SaX2 running again, so please focus on this...
OK. First, I did run Sax2 with the on-board chip enabled in the BIOS and the new video card out of the pooter. Sax2 ran fine. I could configure the on-board chip (resolution, colors) and could set my monitor by model. All went well. I then switched the BIOS to "PCI" and inserted the video card and did a clean install so that the PCI video card was recognized. After doing the on-line update I then went back and restarted the pooter and booted into "FailSafe" mode (which I understands drops me to run level 3). I then logged in (as user) and did the sax2 -l but sax2 did not run. Instead I got the same error message as before: "ups lost card during probe...abort" I then tried sax2 -r but got the same result. Sax2 did not run and the same error message popped up again. Only thing I did not try was logging in as root and trying the above. Since Carl did not specify that in his instructions I assumed it was not necessary. === suse list post #3 Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 10:06:57 -0400 From: Ken Schneider <suse-list@bout-tyme.net> To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] Just installed 9.3 and having some problems with video card and monitor -- any ideas?
Open the SuSE Hardware Tool and see what it reports the card to be. If you are forcing the card to use the nvidia driver it will cause problems. Also, if you looked at the xorg.conf file and found no reference to either nv or nvidia it leads me to believe it is not an nvidia card. Look in Section "Device" to see what it thinks the card is. If there is no Section "Device" than the config never got far enough to create a working "X".
It sees the card as a GeForce FX 5500. As noted above I am not forcing it to use the nVidia driver since I did not download it to my pooter. It should be using the nv driver (but I can't tell if it is or is not). As noted above I did look in xorg.conf file and found no reference to either nVidia or nv. But the care absolutely is an nVidia card. ==== suse list post #4 Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 17:51:01 -0400 From: BandiPat <penguin0601@earthlink.net> To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] Just installed 9.3 and having some problems with video card and monitor -- any ideas?
Here is your location for the Eval DVD iso: ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/linux/suse/ftp.suse.com/suse/i386/live-dvd-9.3 That should provide you a little better test on hardware you want to run SuSE on as well as helpful diagnostic disc when needed.
I tried several times over the weekend to download this SuSE Eval DVD. Unfortunately the download was so impossibly slow that I was never able to get it. After more than an hour I had only about 6% on the best effort, and I have a fibre-optic DSL line, so it should have been much faster. I don't know if it was a problem with my BellSouth connection or if the sending server(s) was slow, but I could not get the download despite several tries. Now, suppose I had gotten it. What to do with that DVD? Are there diagnostic files? === OK, so that's where things stand. Is any of this information useful to you gurus? :o) Thanks. Gil