On Wednesday 26 February 2003 15:53, Matt Stamm wrote:
Thanks Eric for the suggestions.
I tried a third PCI video card, a Matrox MGA card. It was detected when I re-booted and everything went fine. So out of three cards only one worked!
Now, could you have tried a different monitor with the cards which 'didn't work'? Given the complexity of the system, a slight mismatch between the monitor and graphics card can have serious effects. What do you actually /mean/ by *noisy*? Is it snowy? ghosted or shadowed? striated? un-focussed? buzz-bars? ... A better more precise description would help to diagnose the issue.
By the way, I did set the refresh rates, etc. per the Monitor's specifications, and played with some of the other Sax2 setting.
It's always a Good Idea(TM) to change one setting at a time then re-test. Get a low resolution working first, then move up. I have a 21" monitor which is well within the capabilities of my graphics card at 1600x<whatever> and runs sharp as a diamond in That-Other-OS, but Xf4 can't drive it higher than 1280 without an effect I'd describe as 'sound on vision' if it was a TV. A 17" with comparable specs runs fine at 1600 (if unreadably small) on the same box.
Very frustrating! The hardware I tried is on Suse's supported hardware list.
I'm still new to Linux, this is the second system I've setup. It seems Windows is easier to setup then Linux in this area. Why is that? Is it because the manufacturers supply driver software for Windows and tend to ignore Linux??
Generally, yes. But even when the h/ware manufacturers do take notice it isn't necessarily any easier (dare I mention nVidia?)! Dylan -- "Sweet moderation Heart of this nation Desert us not We are between the wars" Billy Bragg