Hello folks, Hopefully someone can help me out here a bit. I started out with SuSE 8.2 and an Abit KX7-333R motherboard and an MSI Geforce 4 TI4200 with 128meg of RAM. There I had a few minor video corruption problems using the Nvidia driver, especially when trying to switch to a virtual console or when shutting the machine down (the screen would turn into rainbow color garbage) but I preferred it over the nv driver due to the speed increase. I purchased an MSI K7N2G motherboard with integrated Geforce 4 MX 220 graphics and moved the GF4 Ti4200 to my Windows machine, figuring that it was just a "glitch" with that one card. To my surprise, the same problem happened with the new motherboard with the integrated video as well, but it worked a tad better (I could shut down properly then). Fast forward to SuSE 9.0. I attempted to install it, only to find that it wouldn't install unless I disabled the onboard sound completely (it would freeze solid at the sound configuration stage and FUBAR the installation, but that doesn't have much to do with X, so I won't go into it). The nv driver worked fine at first, then I found Mozilla 1.4 would lock up when trying to type into the address bar. I went to the Nvidia drivers, only to find that installing them using YAST resulted in X trying to start up, only to lock the machine up solid at a black screen, until I rebooted into recovery mode and forced it to boot to runlevel 3, then set it back to nv. Thinking it was a BIOS issue perhaps, I updated to the newest BIOS for the motherboard. Now using nv "flickers", especially when viewing mpegs and such. Odd spikes of color will flash across the screen randomly, like there's a glitch in the refresh. So, dreading it, I went to Yast online update and installed the update again. This time it worked, but instead of coming up in 1600x1200@24bit, it came up in 1152x864 with a virtual resolution of 1600x1200! I went to Yast and reconfigured it, even though it said it was at 1600x1200, and tested it, only to get the test screen at 1152x864 again with the 1600x1200 virtual resolution. Checking the virtual resolution settings again, it showed the resolution set to 1600x1200 with virtual resolution set to 1600x1200. I disabled all resolutions under Yast except for 1600x1200, and it came up when testing in 1400x1050 resolution with a godawful 60hz refresh rate! Then I tried enabling 1280x1024 resolution with everything lower enabled, and I ended up with 1024x768 resolution! Thus far the best I can get is a 1280x1024 resolution with a miserable 75hz refresh rate, when this monitor (Sony G420 19" monitor, and it's configured as such in Yast) will do 110hz refresh at this resolution, and 85hz at 1600x1200. Now I can't even get the flicker-prone nv driver back, which at least did 1600x1200@85hz like it's supposed to. Anyone have any ideas? Every single update is applied, kernel 2.4.21-144-athlon. Thanks a lot, MattB
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Matt Beazer