On Wednesday 10 August 2005 10:26 am, Carl E. Hartung wrote:
On Wednesday 10 August 2005 11:14 am, Stan Glasoe wrote: <snip>
I just remembered that one of my name brand systems with onboard video will allow disabling the onboard video and the BIOS is also set to NOT allow another video card in the system.!.! The BIOS happily shows onboard video disabled and really does disable it; the VGA port doesn't work. Any add-in video card won't work
Hi Stan,
Now *that* is a funny 'undocumented feature'...
This eMachine is acting like it doesn't do add-in video cards. That may be by design, it may be a flaw of the BIOS that won't be fixed or it could be a hardware failure on the mainboard.
Actually, it seems like the e-Machine has been proven to be working OK with on-board and the add-in graphics, since Knoppix can configure and run quite well.
- Carl
Oops. Only on first cup of coffee and forgot that part... duh. I think Felix may be onto something though in the Konppix 3.4 versus SuSE 9.3 though. Very different versions of stuff. I too wonder if SuSE 8.2 or 9.0 or 9.1 would install here. Stan