On Mon, 2005-08-15 at 00:14 -0400, Gil Weber wrote:
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.
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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)
sax2 needs to be run as root -not- 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.
-- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998