Ullo..
After the build I was running nouveau and I'd get the startup 'an error
occured' but no other obvious issues for a while then at random an app
at random would have image breakup problems like video memory was
corrupt for the video used to render that window. The rendering was
also slow for the fade/transition effects which is just a niggle, and
was happy to live with that.
After a bit of googling I found others with the same issue on the
Geforce 7025 so switched to the closed source ones with the distro which
lead to Xfree hanging occasionally and flash video not working at all.
(HTML 5 video was OK) I went back to nouveau and was just going to put
up with the other problem for the moment.
It was about then I caused the other fault after shifting my desk across
the room That meant re-locating a bunch of cables (radio and PC
related). I then had a problem hams refer to as 'RF in the shack'
although in my case it's 'RF in the kitchen' and more specifically the
USB hub I was using.
Seems that cheap chinese USB hubs are no good in strong RF fields, and
the magic smoke was forthcoming, along with some of the RF getting into
the M/B and killing part of the USB subsystem, one DIMM and the parallel
ATA port. :-)
My 'Spare' PC is quite an old steamer so hence the look for a current
tech M/B. :-)
For the curious I'll check the X log tonight when I'm home after it poos
itself, but the M/B will be going to molten media in the not too distant
future either way.
Cheers, Chris H.
On 30/05/13 11:25, Ross Drummond wrote:
On Thu, 30 May 2013, Chris Hellyar wrote:
Hi folks,
Quick trivia.. My main desktop at home has a Geforce 7025 (nvidia)
graphics card on the board and with each successive upgrade of Ubuntu
it's got less stable video wise and it's finally thrown in the towel
Cheers, Chris H.
I realise that your problems are most likely hardware based given the machines
other issues but does using the nouveau open source driver rather than the
closed nvidia drivers give a different result.
A look through /va r/log/Xorg-*.log may be usefull.
Cheers Ross Drummond
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