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

[Keith Hopkins]

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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