On Fri, 2006-03-24 at 12:54 -0500, JimD wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Mar 2006 08:15:37 -0600
> Michael Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > My wife has the same problem with her computer running Gentoo, but I
> > generated the xorg.conf file from X -configure when I first installed
> > Gentoo on it for her, but her screen still flickers.  Is there any way
> > to find out what drivers would need to be installed (if the drivers
> > are the problem)?
> > 
> 
> This is probably a driver problem.  Are you using the vesa driver?
> When I first installed Gentoo I was using the vesa driver until I
> downloaded the NVidia driver.  With the vesa driver I too had
> flickers.  However once I installed the Nvidia driver the problem went
> away.
> 
> What type of video card do you have?
> 
> Jim

I'm not sure.  Is there a way of finding out the video card without
opening the case and looking?  We have no idea where the manual went...

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