Am Freitag, 28. April 2006 22:34 schrieb M.Blackmore:
I've given up on trying to make a nvidia fx5500 work with Suse 10.0, can't even get it to complete installation using the graphics installer, and can't get it to start X even when using fx86config to try and set up a basic.
What other video card chipset has a good driver support with suse? There was an ATI Radeon something there, but I recall ATI has had a reputation for poor support. Has this improved? (My wife dropped by the shop on a trip into town but can't remember the exact model).
Almost all that seem to be in the local shop are using that super pci wotsit, but I'm about 3yrs out of date with my motherboard and haven't been keeping up with developments (so can't even remember the name of the new slot standard...)
I have on my machines here: nVidia GeForce Ti4600 - no problems, automatically recognised, automatically set-up and automatic download of nVidia drivers through YOU nVidia GeForce FX5700LE - no problems, automatically recognised, automatically set-up and automatic download of nVidia drivers through YOU nVidia GeForce FX5900XT - no problems, automatically recognised, automatically set-up and automatic download of nVidia drivers through YOU nVidia GeForce FX6600GT - no problems, automatically recognised, automatically set-up and automatic download of nVidia drivers through YOU SiS laptop chipset circa 2000 - no problems, automatically recognised, automatically set-up. ATi Mobility X700 - automatically recognised, doesn't set-up to a usable configuration, must download and install ATi drivers before any graphics environment can be used, need to manually re-install display driver after Kernel updates, no 3D support, a total PITA... Thinking of throwing away a perfectly good laptop and replacing it with either a nVidia based laptop or a MacBook Pro... -- "I got to go figure," the tenant said. "We all got to figure. There's some way to stop this. It's not like lightning or earthquakes. We've got a bad thing made by men, and by God that's something we can change." - The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck