Re: [SLE] Just installed 9.3 and having some problems with video card and monitor -- any ideas?

From: Gil Weber (gil_at_gilweber.com)
Date: 08/08/05

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    Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2005 17:06:20 -0400
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    ** Reply to message from "Carl E. Hartung" <suselinux@cehartung.com> on Mon, 8
    Aug 2005 16:46:06 -0400

    Hi, Carl. Thanks for reply. Comments inserted into your message.

    > Hi Gil,
    >
    > I Googled your error message and did a /lot/ of reading...
    >
    > First, did you ever resolve this issue on your e-machine last October? The two
    > SLE threads are nearly identical... lots of advice from lots of experienced
    > sources leading to no positive conclusion that I could find.

            No, never resolved. Last time I was trying with SuSE 9.2. Nothing worked and
    eventually I just put the card back in the box. Now I have just upgraded to
    9.3, and I was hoping that in the intervening months there would be a new
    driver or something else in the on-line updates or from Nvidia that would make
    it worth another try.

     
    > Second, the general concensus seems to be that you'd better check the hardware
    > for either a) being defective, b) not installed correctly or c) the host
    > system is not compatible, possibly by design. Yes, some PC brands *still*
    > force you to buy upgrade hardware from them by building in extra special
    > "custom improvements" that make the systems proprietary.

            Ah, yes. Well if it's defective I have no way to check. All of my computers
    have only Linux -- no Windoze here at all.

            It must be installed correctly (physically anyway) as I've tried it in 3 PCI
    slots. So even if one slot were problematic I don't think the others would be.
    (At least I am assuming they would not all be bad.)

            If PNY has intentionally designed the card to work only with Windoze then,
    again, I have no way to know. PNY customer support does not speak Linux, so
    they are of no help. They keep telling me to install Windoze. :o(

            If e-Machines has intentionally done something then, again, I don't know. They
    also are not conversant in Linux.

    > Finally, when you run "sax -l" (lower case 'L') you're telling it to run in
    > basic plain vanilla VESA compliant VGA mode, which every PC card made in the
    > world for the last decade knows how to 'speak'. In other words, when SaX2
    > probes and can't initialize basic VGA, you've got a fundamental hardware
    > problem on your hands.

            Well, that's hitting it right in the face! :o)

            Yast says the resolution is 1024X768, but I can tell you it sure as heck looks
    like 640X480. And the output I included in a previous e-mail all says 640X480
    and 800X600.

            I will call PNY and see what they say.
     
            Thanks for the e-mail. I really do appreciate the comments. If it is a
    defective card that would certainly explain the frustrating time I'm having.

    Thanks. Gil 

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