On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 03:05:08PM -0500, Gary Hanley wrote:
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 15:05:08 -0500 (EST) From: Gary Hanley <gary@hanley.net> To: Worcester Linux Users Group <wlug@mail.wlug.org> Subject: Re: [Wlug] looking for a PCI graphics card Precedence: list Reply-To: Worcester Linux Users Group <wlug@mail.wlug.org>
On Wed, 20 Dec 2006, Bill Mills-Curran wrote:
The graphics (motherboard) on my linux box have stoped... I still have an ascii screen, but no graphics. (No errors in any logs, so I suspect a hardware failure.) I'm looking for a cheap PCI graphics card to see if that fixes the problem. Even a loaner would help.
If you can't find a card, how about booting from a Gentoo or Fedora CD with a GUI install interface to see what that returns?
-- Gary
Gary, Great idea. BTW, I don't get the graphics screen during the boot, either. I _did_ get it once or twice, then intermittently, then not at all, so I really suspect the video driver hardware. Bill