Re: Possible ubuntu video driver bug

2011-11-11 Thread Stephen
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

Re: Possible ubuntu video driver bug

2011-11-11 Thread Derek Trotter
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

Re: Possible ubuntu video driver bug

2011-11-11 Thread Stephen
If you want to try an alternate Graphics card i do have some AGP cards floating about still. On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 11:23 AM, Derek Trotter expat.arizo...@gmail.com wrote: Good idea, but the motherboard does not have a video card onboard.  The bios does have a setting to   set the primary

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Re: Possible ubuntu video driver bug

2011-11-11 Thread Michael Butash
You might be dealing with hardware issues. I've not seen that kind of problem in my laptop with that chip under solid use for 4 years until it gave up the ghost. I had an 8400 in my dell laptop, and those had serious and well known (read: class-action lawsuit) on that chipset for defective

Re: Possible ubuntu video driver bug

2011-11-11 Thread Derek Trotter
This is something I hadn't heard before. Thanks for letting me know. If this is the problem, there's one thing I don't understand. Why do I not have any problems when the machine is running XP? On 11/11/2011 21:28, Michael Butash wrote: You might be dealing with hardware issues. I've not

Re: Possible ubuntu video driver bug

2011-11-11 Thread Michael Butash
XP's desktop doesn't hit the gpu - this started in the redheaded bastard known as vista. Most xp functions and codecs don't either. Linux will by default now with compiz, video rendering, lots of things. -mb On 11/11/2011 09:49 PM, Derek Trotter wrote: This is something I hadn't heard