-----Original Message----- From: Daniel Joyce [mailto:daniel.a.joyce@worldnet.att.net] Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2003 7:59 AM To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] SuSe 8.2 and NVidia Geforce FX5600

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The odd thing with Sax2 was that he detected my vid card as a 'unknow 0x0312' graphics card. Searching the web I found that 0x0312 id the hardware id for FX5600 cards...but why does he has the Geforce FX5800 in his list and mine that is a step later he does not? Why? the best thing I got was to see Nvidias logo when I forced Sax2 to configure the system as it has a FX5800. The system crashed one moment later.

The FX5600 may be a downgrade of the 5800, this is not uncommon, for cheaper cards with restricted/crippled features to come out after the base card. If so, it may not be in the db.

I've checked nVidia doc that comes with the latest driver set. 0x0312 definitely identifies a Geforce FX 5600. A Geforce FX 5800 is identified by 0x0302. So this is somewhat strange. And I can imagine this goes wrong. The nVidia driver detects the card by looking at this PCI id, and the driver *thinks* it deals with a 5600 iso a 5800. Could you provide the log file (/var/log/XFree86.0.log) so that we can have a look? Regards Harry