On my workstation system, the only box I have 8.0 on, I use an ATI Radeon 64Meg DDR and my monitor is a NOKIA 445PRO 21", so my experience is limited. Yast2/Sax2 did an excellent job picking up both and setting them up, even though it was on a Belkin OmniCube 2 Port switch. It had the option of 1880x1440 right out of the box. Which did not happen in 7.3, 7.2,7.1,etc. I tried Red Hat again recently and it didn't work near as well. I have a little experience, started with Red Hat 2.0 and their first CD release. Been with SuSE since the 5.0 release. Only the experienced walk with a limp. /Dee -----Original Message----- From: Jamie O'Shaughnessy [mailto:jamie.oshaughnessy@ntlworld.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2002 12:01 AM To: W.D.McKinney Cc: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: RE: [SLE] SuSE 8, Nvidia and limited resolution SuSE 7.3, SuSE 7.2, SuSE7.1... (No problems with Mandrake 8 either) 8.0 may support a wider range of cards, but it's pretty obvious from a wide variety of complaints/problems on this list that Sax2 is not up to the production quality of previous versions of SaX (and also YOU seems to be causing some of the problems). Jamie On Tue, 30 Apr 2002, W.D.McKinney wrote:
Well tell me which distro has better support for video cards please ?
-----Original Message----- From: Peter Taylor [mailto:murmur@ghg.net] Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2002 4:45 PM To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] SuSE 8, Nvidia and limited resolution
I have been suffering from a severe case of "buyer's remorse" over SuSE 8.0 (nVidia GeForce2 GTS AGP card and Dell E771p monitor). SaX2 keeps forcing me to do hard resets. What chaps me is that Red Hat 7.2 installed flawlessly.
I finally figured out to tell SaX2 not to calculate modelines. But I have no idea what the differences are between CheckDesktopGeometry, IteratePrecisely, or UseFramebufferTiming. Where is this stuff documented?
How seriously should I take the warning not to edit the XF86Config file? Does SaX2 maintain its own information somewhere else?
Thanks, Peter Taylor
-- Jamie O'Shaughnessy jamie.oshaughnessy@ntlworld.com