** Reply to message from BandiPat <penguin0601@earthlink.net> on Wed, 10 Aug 2005 08:55:29 -0400
On Wednesday 10 August 2005 12:13 am, Gil Weber wrote:
** 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) [...] 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 an 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? ****************
Yes!
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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
Gil, Maybe it's the cards you are trying, maybe it's the motherboard, but I have a customer with a Voodoo3 PCI card working nicely at 1280x1024 on her LCD monitor. It worked in 9.2 and now in 9.3 without problems, so it's certainly not an incompatibility problem with SuSE. Are you disabling the onboard video in the BIOS of the motherboard? Are you specifying your video to be PCI, not AGP in the BIOS?
regards, Lee
Lee, the MB does not have an AGP slot -- only 3 PCI slots. The on-board is disabled in the BIOS. The only two options in the BIOS are "on-board" and "PCI." Both video cards are identified by SuSE, but neither can be configured with SuSE. The video output of both is below acceptable standards (scrolling problems and other issues described in prior e-mails). Both video cards can be configured with Knoppix and video performance is superb with Knoppix. They work perfectly with Knoppix; they don't work with SuSE. Nothing else is different. How can it be a hardware issue when this is the case? Gil