Pit Suetterlin wrote:
Hi Dave,
This seems to be where the trouble starts: [from the Xorg log }
(WW) intel(0): PRB0_CTL (0x0001f001) indicates ring buffer enabled (WW) intel(0): PRB0_HEAD (0x00000024) and PRB0_TAIL (0x00000068) indicate ring buffer not flushed (WW) intel(0): Existing errors found in hardware state. Error in I830WaitLpRing(), timeout for 2 seconds
Apart from that the log looks very similar to the one I get from my 855GM card. Now, I have no clue what the message really means. But maybe it helps to ask more specific questions to the HW gurus....
Pit
Yes, that makes the most sense. If it were a desktop, I'd tell you to just stuff another card in there and see what happens. Laptops are another story. There is always the possibility that somebody just borked the driver for the laptop cards too. While the laptops claim to have an "Intel" this or a "Radeon" that, laptop gpu's are just different hardware when you get down to it. Good luck with the hw gurus. We know how much help dell will be.... Sad, my first 'notebook' was a dell 486 purchased in 1993 with an 800 meg hard drive. When something broke on it, Dell would send a service rep to my place of business to repair it on-site. Things have sure changed. Trumpet winsock, a 14,400 baud PCMCIA modem, pegasus mail, compuserve, bulletin boards, z-modem... -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org