Hello,
Steve Ruzila wrote:
>
> I have a 164LX alpha and it has a full size Digital (DEC) video card in it.
> X doesn't recognize the card. The guy I bought the box from told me that it
> a 16MB Oxygen video card. I replaced it with a generic Trident PCI 8MB video
> card. I do not get any video feed when I use the Trident card. The monitor
> stays in sleep mode. I have video with the Oxygen card. The motherboard has
> 2 32bit and 2 64bit PCI slots along with 2 ISA slots. The card was in the
> first 64 bit slot but has a 32bit connector (if that's the right word).
The oxygen card is probably an NT only card. It's chipset may be
supported
by Xfree but it's clock chip isnt. You should have no problems with a
generic
trident card AFAIK. Though you should put the video card in the first 32
bit
slot, not the 64 bit.
> I'm
> attempting to get Suse Linux 7 to work. Does anyone know a good PCI card to
> use or why mine won't work. I'm using SRM. Also when I boot I only get the
> command line. X doesn't seem to want to come up but I have a feeling it's
> because of the card and not anything else. I just used the suse auto install
> not the expert mode.
See above, also what version of SRM is installed?
> (an aside rant)...the Yast installer is absolute garbage! As someone who
> works with NetWare, Mac's, and Windows it is absolutely garbage. I base this
> on my experience with loading Linux on x86 based boxes, such as Mandrake and
> Storm. Suse gives you the option to choose what you want to install but then
> won't allow you to deselect anything...(rant over...sorry about that)
heheheh :-)
Peter
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