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
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@sagacit.com> 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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On Wed, 2005-06-01 at 09:30 +0200, Mike Béla wrote:
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.
Which card do you have and which version of the BIOS? Strangely the GeForce2 GTS didn't give me too much hassle (although I can't remember if I used it in 9.3 or 9.2). But I have other problems too. My CPU is an AthlonXP 2400+ Thoroughbred, and the board detects it as 1800+ (i.e. 1500mhz in stead of 2000mhz). The problem is it detects the FSB as 200 instead of 266. The only way to get it to run at 266 is to use the overclocking function, which fails every couple of boots. All in all I'm really disappointed. I've had problems minor problems with ASUS before, usually stuff that a BIOS or driver update (in Windows) fixed. After seeing how sweet my housemate's Athlon64+ASUS board worked out, I though heck, I'd give it a try. It was the only board available locally hat has both dual channel memory and onboard gigabit lan. -- Hans du Plooy SagacIT (Pty) Ltd hansdp at sagacit dot com
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