On Wednesday 10 August 2005 9:20 am, Gil Weber wrote: <snippage>
Lee, the MB does not have an AGP slot -- only 3 PCI slots. The on-board is disabled in the BIOS. The only two options in the BIOS are "on-board" and "PCI." Both video cards are identified by SuSE, but neither can be configured with SuSE. The video output of both is below acceptable standards (scrolling problems and other issues described in prior e-mails). Both video cards can be configured with Knoppix and video performance is superb with Knoppix. They work perfectly with Knoppix; they don't work with SuSE. Nothing else is different.
Hi Gil, I think your SuSE graphics card configuration files are corrupted; that the condition is probably a holdover from your previous unsuccessful card installation attempts. (Maybe some manual 'tweaking' or 'fine-tuning', too?) The error message "ups lost card during probing... abort" from SaX2 appears now regardless of the card installed, right? (please confirm) But Knoppix configures and runs. To me, that indicates that SaX2 is grabbing configuration data that it *thinks* is appropriate but isn't, so when it goes out to initialize the hardware it can't communicate with it and aborts. I wish I knew which files needed to be repaired or restored and what the best procedure would be to accomplish that, at this point, but I guess I'm going to have to sit back and learn right along with ya! OK? - Carl