Your Graphics Card Is Not Supported

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SuSE Linux: All versions

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All graphics cards

There are two additional commercial x server providers that might support your graphics card. For further information, please refer to the manufacturer's web page:

From our experience, it does not pay off to purchase a commercial x server except in the case of unusual and expensive graphics cards or laptops. Otherwise, the graphics cards supported by XFree86 (standard graphics cards) are much cheaper and easier to get that the commercial x servers.

These x servers can be purchased from SuSE.

In the next lines, some workaround methods for certain bus types are presented:

AGP and PCI cards

Use the following command to display the information concerning the graphics card integrated in your system:

lspci
The output may be similar to:
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation Riva TNT 128 (rev 04)
Obviously, the manufacturer and model name will depend on the card integrated in your system.

The card can be configured as described in the article "Configure an unsupported graphic card using the framebuffer device" (http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/wessels_easy_fbdev.html) This method is recommended to achieve high color depths.

ISA and EISA cards

The framebuffer device is not available and you can only use the VGA16 server.

If possible, it might be more convenient to purchase an inexpensive PCI graphics card supported by Linux, since the whole performance increases considerably when using the graphical interface X11 (particularly in small machines).


See also:
o Using the VESA framebuffer driver
o Using the VESA framebuffer driver (Since 6.3)

Keywords: GRAPHICS CARD, VIDEOCARD, UNSUPPORTED, METROLINK, XIG

Categories: Graphic cards

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