On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 02:57:42PM -0600, David J Meyer wrote: > To all > I have a Dell Dimension 2400 with the onboard video chipset. I have > installed Squeeze on to the computer. > The OS seems to be working fine. I can access the Apache server and the > page and application that it provides. > I also have configured it as a print server which also works the way it > should across my intranet. > However the display freezes after a while. No specific length of time. > During the install it had issues with the video > mode 314 which if you go to the expert graphical installer you can > bypass that and make it use 800x600 with depth of 16. > I configured it to install the hardware only drivers in the kernel as > compared to all. > When it freezes display goes dark, mouse pointer is present and follows > the movement. I have snooped around on the internet and the problem is > not rare but really have seen no answers to resolve the issue. However > there was one suggestion to change to onboard video ram from 1mb to 8mb. > I tried that and it seemed to make the matter worse. > The computer had several different versions of Fedora with the last one > being 16 and that was nothing but a headache > but the display worked fine. > > Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. Checked to see if it was > reported as a bug but do not see anything. > How about using a cheapo PCI or AGP video card? Are you near NJ, USA? I have a bunch of them in a box...
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