ben@whack.org wrote:
->Hang on, was the install of 8.1 an upgrade from 8.0 or a fresh install? -> ->(I never trust the upgrades.)
I don't usually trust them either, but the upgrade I did on my workstation in the office (same video card) worked like a charm.
I did an upgrade 1st..then out of frustration did a full fresh reinstall. I thought it could have been a faulty CDROM drive. It wasn't and it still screwed up.
->You *might* have a sickness in your graphics card itself though - memory ->in the card might be at fault, not in that part that's used for VGA, but ->when things get more exciting.
I just reinstalled 8.0. It works like a charm. *shrug*
It might be acpi. That changed a lot between 8.0 and 8.1 apparently. You might try either "acpi=off" or "pci=acpi" as kernel parameter. I had to do that with mantel's latest kernels otherwise almost nothing worked right. //Anders