Yes, those are bad tidings for sure. When I saw that yast had identified my ancient graphics card I thought I was home free. Here's what it showed on the desktop settings page: Diamond Multimedia Systems Stealth 3D 4000 XFree86 4 module: S3 virge Going back thru my notes (turned out to be 1998) of my first Red Hat installation I find in several places: Probing found PCI entry: Virge/GX2 Xserver: S3V The only reference to chipset I find is a note all by itself: Diamond Stealth 3D 4000 AGP with S3Virge/GX2 chipset. If I am reading correctly, the info from the link you gave me, correctly both versions of X support the GX2. Charles, I sure appreciate your looking this up. I am remembering now that card was a nightmare on that first installation. I'm not sure what to try next. Maybe I ought to get a new card, Jack On Sun, 04 Feb 2001, you wrote:
Jack
Sorry I did not get back to you sooner but I got tied up with other things.
I was unfamiliar with your graphics card so I did some investigating at the Diamond site. Your card is a legacy device and they no longer list any tech. specs regarding it. Based on the age of your card and the S3 chipsets which were in use at the time it would be my opinion that your card is not supported with X 4.0 since the only S3 that are, are the Virge series. If you have the manual or know the chipset which is actually used you can use this link to verify which versions of X supports your card http://www.xfree.org/4.0.1/Status27.html#27 If this is indeed true when you install you will need to do individual package selection and ensure that only X3.3.6 is installed and none of the X4.0.
Sorry to be the barer of what you might view as bad tidings.
Charles )-:
Forever never goes beyond tomorrow.
-----Original Message----- From: Jack Reilly [mailto:aa6vn@pacbell.net] Sent: Saturday, February 03, 2001 3:45 PM To: eslrahc@bellsouth.net Subject: RE: [SLE] losing mouse and keyboard
On Sat, 03 Feb 2001, you wrote:
When you say you had an "immediate crash" are you meaning that your display freezes and that you have no fuctionality in either the keyboard or mouse. If this is the case does your mouse cursor remain on screen where you tried to max the window or does it jump to the top right hand corner of the screen?
Charles (-:
Yes. Display freezes. No kb. No mouse. Cursor remains at the last place I used it.
Jack
I was beginning to suspect that this might be the case. There is nothing wrong with your mouse or your switch. What you do have is a problem in your either your X configuration or in KDE.
There are a whole host of question that go to resolving this.
Is there any other device on your system that is trying to share an IRQ with your video card?
Not that I know of. The only other device on this machine is the ethernet card for DSL and it seems to be working ok. This machine worked ok with RH in the identical system.
What is your vid card and how did you configure it in SuSe?
The vid card is a Diamond Stealth 3D 4000. Yast recognizes it as such. It is configured at 1280x1024 16 bit.
At what rez and refresh are you running?
The resolution is 1280x1024 16 bit I don't find the refresh rate. Will get it on the next install. ..
Are you running a stock KDE or have you upgraded to KDE 2.0?
I am using the Suse 7.0 Pro cdroms from Suse. I select default with office plus all of KDE plus KDE2 plus 5 ham radio packages. I log in to kde
Are you running X 3.3.6 or X 4.0?
X 4.0
Is your BIOS set to non PnP OS?
Yes
Any of the above, except for the BIOS, which you have set-up Exactly the same in RH can be discounted as a cause since you stated that you do not experience this problem in RH.
I am not sure what you mean here but hope in the answers above you can spot the problem. Sure appreciate the help.
Jack
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