Re: Asus A8V Deluxe, Xfree display problems with BIOS 1011

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I got the same problem some months ago with a radeon 9600, so I installed the ubuntu x.org version. This didn't solve my problem, so I remove all packages relative to XFree and then I purge it. And then reinstall them. After that the problem disappeared, I don't know what was the reason but maybe it can help you. Nor. Joerg Rossdeutscher wrote: Am Mittwoch, den 04.05.2005, 15:41 +0000 schrieb Jean-Luc Coulon I've an ASUS A8V Deluxe with an ASUS A9250T/D video card. I've just updated my BIOS from 1009 to 1011. After this update, the machine boot fine and the display works in cosole mode but while swtiching to X when gdm starts, I get a black screen with only the cursor image in white. The machine is still alive and I can access it via ssh. But I cannot even swith to a console and try a "blind reboot" with <Alt><Ctrl><Fn> and then log in. I cannot kill the X server with <Alt><Ctrl><Backspace>. Me2. Same board, but I use sid-32bit. It seems to be a mess, but works: I use the "nvidia" module (lsmod), but for X11 I use "nv" (XF86Config-4). When I configure X11 to use "nvidia" instead of "nv", the machine crashes like you described. "nv" is working. Some weeks ago I tried Ubuntu unstable, but didn't use it anymore since then. When this problem occured, I booted into Ubuntu just to see it crashing like you described, even it was working before Bios-Update and I didn't reconfigure anything. That means: X.org is hit by the problem also, exactly like XFree. Maybe using nv instead of nvidia made you believe Ubuntu would run? And up/downgrading the kernel may have broken the nvidia module, so nv is used instead, so that made you believe the kernel-up/downgrade fixed it? I've to agree: Asus broke our machines. Bye, Ratti