Good idea, but the motherboard does not have a video card onboard. The
bios does have a setting to set the primary video adapter as AGP or
PCI. It's set to PCI.
Thanks for taking the time to write your suggestion.
Derek
On 11/11/2011 07:44 AM, Stephen wrote:
Something to consider in some CMOS you can have settings that choose a
preferred video card, and sometimes on-board video is not disabled
fully. some Intel boards are notorious for this.
Look in your settings and see what you can find. this may help. I had
one helluva time with PCI-e graphics and Ubuntu for a while back in
the 8.xx days with this.
On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 4:38 PM, Derek Trotter<[email protected]> wrote:
It happens whether or not I'm playing a video. Most of the videos I watch
are not flash videos. They're mostly avi files with xvid, but some were
mpeg1 or mpeg2. I used vlc to play them.
On 11/10/2011 16:32, Dazed_75 wrote:
All of your issues sound like they happen when playing videos. Is that true
or are there other times as well?
As far as what else it could be, there could be lots of possibilities but
they might be hard to track down to elements that are common to Ubuntu,
Kubuntu, and Fedora. If it is localized to playing videos, I would
certainly be suspicious of the command line based underpinnings the players
might use. Oh, and are the videos Flash based or not?
If you are coming to the meeting tonight and can come to the restaurant
after, someone there may be able to help.
On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 4:21 PM, Derek Trotter<[email protected]>
wrote:
On 11/10/2011 16:10, Dazed_75 wrote:
Try looking to see if you are using the open source generic nvidia driver
or the proprietary one. I am not sure where that is in the Kubuntu menus
but look for something in System, or Administration with a name that is
probably something about Hardware. It should run a program that looks to
see if there are proprietary drivers you might choose to use.
When I first installed the os I noticed the problem with the driver it
came with. I checked and found where it suggested a proprietary driver and
offered one other. I chose the one that was recommended. The bug showed
itself with the driver that came with the install and the one I installed
later.
I AM curious though if you have some particular reason for suspecting it
is due to you having that video card since a screen freeze could be
something above the driver level.
I've had that card for about 2 years while the machine was running XP and
didn't have this problem. It only showed itself after I installed the
latest Ubuntu and Kubuntu version as well as the other latest linux flavors
I mentioned earlier. Fedora 15 was the worst. It would freeze the screen
as soon as I started playing a video. The others would let me watch at
least for a few minutes before the screen froze.
Also if it's not a driver problem, what else could it be?
On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 3:59 PM, Derek Trotter<[email protected]>
wrote:
I have an NVIDIA Geforce 8400 GS card that plugs into a PCI slot. I have
no problems with it in XP, but when I installed Kubuntu 11.10 I found a
problem. Occasionally the screen freezes. I can't switch to a console.
Also I can't kill the x server. I know the machine has not completely
locked up because when I have audio playing, it keeps playing even though
the screen has frozen. None of the usual means to shut down a machine work.
The only thing I can do is hit the reset button, press the power switch for
several seconds until the machine shuts off, or pull the plug. I've
encountered this on Ubuntu 11.10, Kubuntu 11.10, Mepis 11 and Fedora 15. I
installed the LTS verson of Kubuntu 10 and haven't had any problems with it.
Does anyone have any idea what's going on or how to fix it?
Thanks
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