HCL/Video Cards

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ASUS EAH4350 SILENT/DI/512MD2(Low Profile)

ATI Radeon HD4350 Chipset

OpenSuse 11.1

Autodetected - 3D Support Works out of box with vesa driver. glx_gears runs. The ati driver that is in Suse repository doesn't work.

SiS - Silicon Integrated Systems

660

openSUSE 11.0

Autodetected - 3D Support

openSUSE 11.1

Autodetected - 3D Support Distorts the image, seems to be due to some xorg.conf change between 11.0 and 11.1. Works with the VESA driver.

65x/M650/740 PCI/ACP

SUSE Linux 10.0

Autodetected - 3D Support
The driver provided by SUSE Linux 10.0 doesn´t support all features of this chip-set. Use the driver from Thomas Winischhofer to use more/all features (e.g. dual head, tv-out ...)

SUSE Linux 10.1

Autodetected - 3D Support
To use the dual head feature of the chipset set the "MergeFB" option of the card in SaX2 to "On". Use "CRT2Position" option to define the monitor layout (e.g. "LeftOf"). There's an accelerated version of the driver available from Thomas Winischhofer (comercial).

VIA

KM400

Autodetected - 3D Support
Must manually configure Yast2 to use vesa drivers.

Matrox

G550

Autodetected - 3D Support
Standard configuration will be in 1 screen. 3D will not work in Xinerama. For dual screen you need to run sax2 -b /usr/share/sax/profile/Matrox_G550 or any other apropriate file in /usr/share/sax/profile/

Intel chipsets

Using Intel: 965 GM | On Lenovo R61e | OpenSuse 11.0 & 11.1 | Works from Default Install - Just open Yast/Harware/Monitor and check 3D |

For using the native resolution on newer laptops, please refer to Patch the Video BIOS.

NVIDIA chipsets

9800 GT (PCI EXPRESS)

SUSE Linux 11.0

Autodetected - 3D Support
NVIDIA proprietary drivers are required for 3D Support. Those can be found at the NVIDIA website

8400 GS (PCI EXPRESS)

SUSE Linux 11.0 and 11.1

Autodetected - 3D Support
NVIDIA proprietary drivers are required for 3D Support. Repo using YaSt2 can be found at

Nvidia Website 11.1 or Nvidia website 11.0

8600 GTS (PCI EXPRESS)

SUSE Linux 11.0 and 11.1

Autodetected - 3D Support
NVIDIA proprietary drivers are required for 3D Support. Repo using YaSt2 can be found at

Nvidia Website 11.1 or Nvidia website 11.0

External Links

Novell SUSE Linux - Hardware Compatibility List

Novell SUSE Linux Certified Hardware

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