Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2441 mails)

[Hans du Plooy <hansdp@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi guys,

As many of you surely know, I've been having a lot of graphics card
problems.  At first I thought it was the nVidia driver, as I had the
same issues with four different cards.  But when I replaced it with a
Radeon 9250, I got the same problem (but only after a reboot though).
Then I figured out that if I disable apic and acpi at boot, the problem
went away.  For a while.  Now, I have to boot into runlevel 3, delete
the .ICE-unix and .X11-unix directories, do startx as root, and then
only start xdm before I can work.  If I don't, the following happens:

X starts, I get a quick flash of something, much like what you sometimes
get when changing resolutions, and then the screen just goes blank, and
eventually goes into DPMS mode.

For what it's worth, in Windows I have issues too, sometimes after a
reboot the screen looks like what those old VGA screens use to look like
when you try a too high resolution on them.  Only thing is my screen
switches off if you try that, so that's obviously not what happens.

Anyway, by this time I'm really starting to suspect the motherboard,
because I know the graphics card (all five of them) checks out fine.

Does anybody else run SUSE 9.3 on this board, or know of any issues with
it?

Thanks
-- 
Hans du Plooy
SagacIT (Pty) Ltd
hansdp at sagacit dot com