Unable to recognize 3D card....

redrobin77 · 12-06-2004, 07:39 AM

Hi,

I do seem to have a few issues to resolve since moving to Suse 9.1.

I discovered that my 3D card is not found by Suse9.1

I have a Hercules Prophet 9000 card and a Acer 1511TFT flat panel display.
When i go to Yast and click on hardware->Graphics/Display, then the monitor goes blank and after that I have to reboot.

When I try playing a 3D game, then it tells me there is no 3D card.

I had this problem with KDE3.2.

Has anyone had similar problems...? any clue is appreciated.

thanks,
redrobin.

abisko00 · 12-06-2004, 08:12 AM

From what I found in google it's a ATI Radeon 9000 chip. Maybe you could try the ATI driver. But as far as I can remember, 3D and ATI was always a problem on Linux.

You should check the output of /var/log/XFree86.0.log for errors (EE), warnings (WW) and drm messages.

redrobin77 · 12-06-2004, 08:14 AM

thanks, I will check this tonight as well as about the windows query earlier....and answer tomorrow.

thanks,
rr.

redrobin77 · 12-06-2004, 01:20 PM

Hi,

the only (EE) I see are:

(EE) FBDEV(0): FBIOPAN_DISPLAY: Invalid argument
(==) FBDEV(0): Backing store disabled
(==) RandR enabled
(II) Setting vga for screen 0.

All other (WW)'s only complain about missing fonts.

Does the above say anything ?

thanks,
rr

redrobin77 · 12-06-2004, 01:22 PM

Hi,

noticed the following lines in the same file:

(--) PCI:*(0:8:0) ATI Technologies Inc Radeon RV250 If [Radeon 9000] rev 1, Mem @ 0xd0000000/27, 0xe0000000/16, I/O @ 0xd800/8
(--) PCI: (1:0:0) Trident Microsystems CyberBlade/i1 rev 106, Mem @ 0xdd800000/23, 0xde000000/17, 0xdd000000/23

hmm.. looks like it sees 2 cards ( 1 PCI and another onboard.....) should I diable the on-board stuff..?

thanks,
rr.

abisko00 · 12-07-2004, 02:09 AM

Quote:

should I diable the on-board stuff..?

That's a good idea!

redrobin77 · 12-07-2004, 02:13 AM

And how can I do that easily...?

BTW: I tried installing the ATI drivers, and reconfigured, but there is no improvement in the situation. ( I did this as mentioned in a docu in this website step by step .....and finaally running startx.....)

thanks,
rr.

abisko00 · 12-07-2004, 02:27 AM

It's most probably the second card that interferes.

There should be an option in your BIOS. Sorry, since I don't know your system, you need to find it yourself.