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List:       opensuse
Subject:    Re: [opensuse] Can you say ripoff - OT
From:       Damon Register <damon.w.register () lmco ! com>
Date:       2007-01-10 11:03:36
Message-ID: 45A4C808.1090809 () lmco ! com
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Billie Erin Walsh wrote:
> We just bought a pair of eMachines/Gateways. They have ATI video cards.
> So far I haven't found a video setting that will allow me to use SuSE [
> 10.1 ] on mine. For the time being I've pretty much given up on having
I don't know about 10.1 but 10.0 gave me trouble tht made me give up too
but with 10.2 the problems went away.

> The setup/install screens look really good, but I don't know the
> settings that setup uses. Something very generic I'm sure. Anyone happen
I have never understood why the install process is able to figure out
a good setting but fails on the configuring later.  You could try
something that has worked for me in the past on an older ATI card.
I used the generic framebuffer setting and either a really generic
monitor or manually plugging in the real monitor values if I had them.
I found the trick in my SuSE 7 book but I think it wasn't in later
books.  You wouldn't get the 3D capability but at least you would
get the display working.  I only remember that it was a parameter passed
to sax when configuring.  If you are interested I can look it up
tonight or, if someone has a better memory than I, they could post
the sax parameter for getting it to run with the framebuffer

Damon Register
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