[ale] SuSE 7.1/ATI Radeon pain in the ASCII

[charrig at earthlink.net (Calvin Harrigan)]

I've had very good luck with NVidia based cards.  They even have an 
accelerated driver (though closed) for X.
I'm using an Asus 7100 Geforce 2 MX with TV/Out.
It has worked wonderfully for me.  I'm running on an MSI K7T motherboard with 
an 800MHz Athlon.

On Sunday 21 October 2001 05:42 pm, you wrote:
> Steven A. DuChene wrote:
> > On Sun, Oct 21, 2001 at 06:33:44PM +0900, Keith Hopkins wrote:
> >>Hi all,
> >>
> >>   I found a solution to a problem that I've heard no one ask about, yet.
> >> :-)
> >>
> >>   Installing (or attempting) to install SuSE 7.1 (maybe 7.2 also) and
> >> calling up the YAST1 installer at the boot prompt causes the system to
> >> completely hose shortly after the kernel bootup loads (that's right, I
> >> don't even have the OS loaded on!)
> >>
> >>   The culprit is SuSE's use of the fbdev display in combination with a
> >> ATI Radeon 64M DDR (bulk or retain, I tried both).  This was in both a
> >> Gigabyte GA-7DXR and a Asus A7V motherboard.
> >>
> >>   The solution I found is to use boot prompt "vga=normal" as in
> >> "boot:yast1 vga=normal". And magically, everything was right once again
> >> in the world.
> >>
> >>Lost in Tokyo,
> >>   Keith
> >
> > Keith:
> > Are the motherboards mentioned above have Athlon chips? I have found
> > quite a bit of info regarding bad interactions between certain Athlon
> > motherboards and Radeon graphics cards. I experienced systems lockups
> > first hand on a friends system repeatably with such a combination when
> > trying to bring up the Xserver.
> >
> > Are you actually in Tokyo or is that just an expression in your sig?
>
> Hi Steve,
>
>    Yes, both systems are Athlon systems.
>
>    I'm still having one problem with them (on the GA-7DXR), and that is
> time-outs and hangs on the built in Promise RAID controller when I have the
> Radeon in the system.  I starting to thing about going with a (gasp)
> non-ATI video card, but I'm not really sure what is a good choice.
>
>    Ohayougozaimasu.  I'm actually in Tokyo.  I've been here for almost a
> year now.
>
> Lost in Tokyo (really!)
>    Keith
>
>
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