On Sep 11, 06 20:15:45 -0400, ken wrote:
This, of course, is an error; the R250 Lf is a completely different video card. This caused severe problems during the initial system
Is it? Your proposed change below doesn't look like that... The marketing names say nothing about the chipset itself.
install, a problem which occasionally recurs when running SuSEconfig/Sax, when it decides, for some reason, to turn my screen into complete garbage by rewriting /etc/X11/xorg.conf. By "garbage" I mean that the screen displays four identical quandrants, each of which has some recognizable graphics, but other than those looks like some image which has been run through a shredder and its pieces randomly pasted back together. I'm guessing that the horizontal and vertical sync rates and the guard zones are all way off due to the misidentification of the video card.
Ok, in that case please create a bug report.
Since getting the above output from lspci, I hand-edited /usr/share/pci.ids to make the following changes.
# 4c66 Radeon R250 Lf [FireGL 9000] 4c66 Radeon R250 Lf [Radeon Mobility 9000 M9]
While lspci reflects this change, I doubt that this will effect anything more than a cosmetic change and haven't rerun sax to see if it still messes up the display or not.
lspci is only cosmetic, you're right. But maybe the radeon driver's ids have been retrieved from the database and are wrong as well... OTOH, you cannot be sure that there are *not* any FireGL 9000 that has the same PCI Id and is working fine. Matthias -- Matthias Hopf <mhopf@suse.de> __ __ __ Maxfeldstr. 5 / 90409 Nuernberg (_ | | (_ |__ mat@mshopf.de Phone +49-911-74053-715 __) |_| __) |__ labs www.mshopf.de