David King wrote: > My girlfriend is running Ubuntu 8.04 on her Dell Inspiron 1525 > (preinstalled), but had a few graphics issues recently. > I was playing a game (Penguin Planet Racer) full screen and it crashed > the laptop, could not get out of it other than a hard reboot. > I disabled some of the Compiz effects, in case that was overloading the > graphics chip, which I think is an Intel chip. > > Today she said she booted it as normal, and then when she logged in, > there were various small lines on the screen that were never there before. > > Is this likely to be a software issue or a hardware problem?
Not sure, but if you try a live CD maybe 8.04.1 (?) or even 8.10, it may show that the hardware works ok, maybe choose live CD safe graphics option? good luck -- alan cocks Ubuntu user #10391 Linux user #360648 -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
