Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2441 mails)

[Mike Béla <mikebela777@xxxxxxxx>]

My computer is built on the same motherboard (Asus A7V880) and there is no problem with my nVidia video card + nVidia driver. Tested distributions: SuSE 9.3, Gentoo, Slackware 10.1, CentOS 4.

Hans du Plooy <hansdp@xxxxxxxxxxx> irta:

> Hi guys,
> 
> As many of you surely know, I've been having a lot of graphics card
> problems.  At first I thought it was the nVidia driver, as I had the
> same issues with four different cards.  But when I replaced it with a
> Radeon 9250, I got the same problem (but only after a reboot though).
> Then I figured out that if I disable apic and acpi at boot, the
> problem
> went away.  For a while.  Now, I have to boot into runlevel 3, delete
> the .ICE-unix and .X11-unix directories, do startx as root, and then
> only start xdm before I can work.  If I don't, the following happens:
> 
> X starts, I get a quick flash of something, much like what you
> sometimes
> get when changing resolutions, and then the screen just goes blank,
> and
> eventually goes into DPMS mode.
> 
> For what it's worth, in Windows I have issues too, sometimes after a
> reboot the screen looks like what those old VGA screens use to look
> like
> when you try a too high resolution on them.  Only thing is my screen
> switches off if you try that, so that's obviously not what happens.
> 
> Anyway, by this time I'm really starting to suspect the motherboard,
> because I know the graphics card (all five of them) checks out fine.
> 
> Does anybody else run SUSE 9.3 on this board, or know of any issues
> with
> it?
> 
> Thanks
> --
> Hans du Plooy
> SagacIT (Pty) Ltd
> hansdp at sagacit dot com
> 
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