Hi all

I have a viewsonic VE710 monitor that was automatically recognized and
configured beautifully when I installed SuSE9.3 PRO on a powerspec machine.
Now that the powerspec is dead and I am trying to install the same SuSE
distribution on a new eMachine (but the same monitor- The monitor is still
in great shape) with the same SuSE DVD, not only the monitor is not
recognized, but it is not even in the list of choices SuSE is giving me. I
give the sync rates and the monitor size manually, and still SaX is not
configuring it correctly.

FWIW, the new machine has an ATI Xpress200 video card and I am having
problems even with configuring that (Downloaded driver from ATI site and
installed it, but sax still can't configure it). But that's a different
issue, I think. Or is it? Is it possible that the inability to configure
card can cause monitor configuration problem?

In any case, any pointers on how to resolve these problems and configure the
card and the monitor?

P.S. My new machine is AMD64. These problems exist both for installations on
64 bit as well as 32 bit modes.


Thanks.

"rsina" <rsina.no-ssppaamm@earthlink.net> wrote in message
news:A_t0f.7940$vw6.6482@newsread1.news.atl.earthl ink.net...
> Hi all
>
> I have a viewsonic VE710 monitor that was automatically recognized and
> configured beautifully when I installed SuSE9.3 PRO on a powerspec
> machine.
> Now that the powerspec is dead and I am trying to install the same SuSE
> distribution on a new eMachine (but the same monitor- The monitor is still
> in great shape) with the same SuSE DVD, not only the monitor is not
> recognized, but it is not even in the list of choices SuSE is giving me. I
> give the sync rates and the monitor size manually, and still SaX is not
> configuring it correctly.

From harsh experience, eMachines tend to bite. They tend to use weird, only
existed for 3 weeks and fell off somebody's truck in Taiwan motherboards or
video cards.

> FWIW, the new machine has an ATI Xpress200 video card and I am having
> problems even with configuring that (Downloaded driver from ATI site and
> installed it, but sax still can't configure it). But that's a different
> issue, I think. Or is it? Is it possible that the inability to configure
> card can cause monitor configuration problem?

That seems likely. SuSE's "YaST" tool and its display configuration options
are notoriously poor. But if you want access to them, make sure you're in
runlevel 3, don't start an X session, and use the "SaX2" command. You may
need to type /usr/X11R6/bin/SaX2 to get it.

> In any case, any pointers on how to resolve these problems and configure
> the
> card and the monitor?
>
> P.S. My new machine is AMD64. These problems exist both for installations
> on
> 64 bit as well as 32 bit modes.

That's a different story. Are you installing the x86_64 version of the OS?

Do you have the grahics card you powerspec machine had
if so put it in, and see what happens

On Tue, 04 Oct 2005 13:48:48 +0200, rsina <rsina.no-ssppaamm@earthlink.net> wrote:

> issue, I think. Or is it? Is it possible that the inability to configure
> card can cause monitor configuration problem?

The system can only access the monitor through the video card, so I think
it is quite possible.

-Enrique

rsina wrote:

> Hi all
>
> I have a viewsonic VE710 monitor that was automatically recognized
> and configured beautifully when I installed SuSE9.3 PRO on a
> powerspec machine. Now that the powerspec is dead and I am trying to
> install the same SuSE distribution on a new eMachine (but the same
> monitor- The monitor is still in great shape) with the same SuSE DVD,
> not only the monitor is not recognized, but it is not even in the
> list of choices SuSE is giving me. I give the sync rates and the
> monitor size manually, and still SaX is not configuring it correctly.
>
> FWIW, the new machine has an ATI Xpress200 video card and I am having
> problems even with configuring that (Downloaded driver from ATI site
> and installed it, but sax still can't configure it). But that's a
> different issue, I think. Or is it? Is it possible that the inability
> to configure
> card can cause monitor configuration problem?
>
> In any case, any pointers on how to resolve these problems and
> configure the card and the monitor?
>
> P.S. My new machine is AMD64. These problems exist both for
> installations on 64 bit as well as 32 bit modes.
>
>
> Thanks.

I haven't tried 9.3 but I'm running Suse 10.0 RC1 32bit on a eMachines
T6524 AMD64 3500+ with ATI Xpress 200, couldn't get 10.0 X64 RC1 to
install, it kept locking up after disk 1 on reboot.

And Mandriva 2005 x64 gets no where, disk 1 locks up probing USB ports.

Will try Suse 10.0 x64 and Mandriva 2006 x64 release versions later,
Mandriva 2006 supposed to be released this Thursday 10/6, don't know
if that will include the x64 version though?

I just got this Sunday, it seems there is something about the Realtech
boot controller chip that I haven't figured out yet? or the XP
auto-recovery BIOS?
But both True Image Partition Expert and Partition Magic can not format
or partition the 200GB drive, they both give no disk found error on
reboot to try, I ended up using a old DR DOS boot disk with FDisk to
delete and make new partitions.

You might want to wait for 10.0 release or try 32bit RC1 now.
--
Patrick in IL.

Patrick Phillips wrote:

> I haven't tried 9.3 but I'm running Suse 10.0 RC1 32bit on a
> eMachines T6524 AMD64 3500+ with ATI Xpress 200, couldn't get 10.0
> X64 RC1 to install, it kept locking up after disk 1 on reboot.
>
> And Mandriva 2005 x64 gets no where, disk 1 locks up probing USB
> ports.
>
> Will try Suse 10.0 x64 and Mandriva 2006 x64 release versions later,
> Mandriva 2006 supposed to be released this Thursday 10/6, don't know
> if that will include the x64 version though?
>
> I just got this Sunday, it seems there is something about the
> Realtech boot controller chip that I haven't figured out yet? or the
> XP auto-recovery BIOS?
> But both True Image Partition Expert and Partition Magic can not
> format or partition the 200GB drive, they both give no disk found
> error on reboot to try, I ended up using a old DR DOS boot disk with
> FDisk to delete and make new partitions.
>
> You might want to wait for 10.0 release or try 32bit RC1 now.

Oh yea, I'm using Samsung 955DF monitor, its ID'd and works fine in
both Suse and Mandriva.
--
Patrick in IL.

Patrick Phillips wrote:

Oh yea I'm using Samsung 955DF monitor, its ID'd and works fine in
both Suse and Mandriva.
--
Patrick in IL.

rsina wrote:

> Hi all
>
> I have a viewsonic VE710 monitor that was automatically recognized and
> configured beautifully when I installed SuSE9.3 PRO on a powerspec
> machine. Now that the powerspec is dead and I am trying to install the
> same SuSE distribution on a new eMachine (but the same monitor- The
> monitor is still in great shape) with the same SuSE DVD, not only the
> monitor is not recognized, but it is not even in the list of choices SuSE
> is giving me. I give the sync rates and the monitor size manually, and
> still SaX is not configuring it correctly.
>
> FWIW, the new machine has an ATI Xpress200 video card and I am having
> problems even with configuring that (Downloaded driver from ATI site and
> installed it, but sax still can't configure it). But that's a different
> issue, I think. Or is it? Is it possible that the inability to configure
> card can cause monitor configuration problem?
>
> In any case, any pointers on how to resolve these problems and configure
> the card and the monitor?
>
> P.S. My new machine is AMD64. These problems exist both for installations
> on 64 bit as well as 32 bit modes.
>
>
> Thanks.

Having the same problem with a Mobility X700 card on my laptop. Select the
correct monitor won't help, because the ATi drivers are having a lot of
problems recognising the Xn00 chipsets at the moment. The ATi package on
the SuSE mirros just gives me a blank screen, the ATi package from the ATi
website just gives compile errors.

Waiting to see if 10.0 gets around this problem. The Beta 1 recognised the
video card and set-up the blank screen automatically, so it is getting
there slowly :-P Hopefully the release version has gotten a bit further,
although it isn't just SuSE, software like Acronis TrueImage crash out as
well...

Dave

Darklight wrote:

> Do you have the grahics card you powerspec machine had
> if so put it in, and see what happens


Well, the graphic card on the powerspec is AGP, and the motherboard on the
new eMachine does not seem to have an AGP slot (or at least I couldn't find
it). But I bought and installed a PCI ATI radeon 7000, and it did install
well, recognizing the monitor aaand other devices automatically.

Thanks to all who responded to my question.