you may a newer version of xfree86. I'm not familiar with what is included with suse 9. An xfree86 log would be helpful. Also for help related inquiries please use the xfree86@xxxxxxxxxxx ML. Alex --- "William W. Austin" <waustin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Apologies in advance for this, but I've been pulling my hair out for > hours on this one. > > My nephew (lives several hundred miles away) wanted to install linux > on > his formerly win-xp machine (athlon 2800 xp, 512 MB, 2 large drives, > etc.) with Radeon 9700 Pro (128 MB) video card. He went out and > bought > Suse 9 and did a completely clean install (with me on the other end > of > the phone line the whole time - he's new to anything not from MS). > Everything installed cleanly and the machine booted successfully, > HOWEVER: > > The video card is not recognized. It is a Radeon 9700 Pro with 128 > Mb > of memory (AGP) and works correctly under the other OS, but although > it > shows up in scanpci and lspci, the setup utility on Suse bombs and > cannot set up the card. He is also singularly unable to run a simple > command (rpm -q XFree86) to tell me the version on that machine - and > I > haven't been able to get the info from any Suse website (and his net > access is temporarily down until school starts again in January). > > I've spent nearly the entire day (11 hours) with him on the phone > trying > to find a solution but I nave other cards - no radeons - and my > config > files don't help here). XFre86 -configure fails, unable to find the > device. If anyone has a working XF86Config file they can email me, > I'd > greatly appreciate it (as a last effort before I tell him to turn off > linux until I can go visit him in 3 weeks). I'm going out of town > and > he is nearly desparate to get X up and running on this machine. > > Please feel free to mail me privately if you can help. > > Thanks and apologies for wasting the bandwidth. > > Bill Austin > > > -- > William W. Austin waustin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > bill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > "Life is just a phase I'm going through..." > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > Devel@xxxxxxxxxxx > http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New Yahoo! Photos - easier uploading and sharing. http://photos.yahoo.com/ _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
