Thank god for mutt... My motherboard integrated graphics died this evening. It still works in console mode (have to boot to init 3), but when I try to start graphics, or go to init 5 -- caput. What I see is a most of the firmware boot (e machine logo) with fritzed colors in a band across the top -- about 15% of the screen. I was wondering if I could just add a new card and have that work. To do that, I suppose I'd have to find a way to disable the motherboard graphics card Any ideas? If this seems like a good idea, can you recommend a reasonable graphics card? I'm not a gamer. The most graphics-intensive thing I do is watch a movie. TIA, Bill
On Sat, Sep 17, 2005 at 10:40:28PM -0400, Bill Mills-Curran wrote:
Thank god for mutt... My motherboard integrated graphics died this evening. It still works in console mode (have to boot to init 3), but when I try to start graphics, or go to init 5 -- caput. What I see is a most of the firmware boot (e machine logo) with fritzed colors in a band across the top -- about 15% of the screen.
I was wondering if I could just add a new card and have that work. To do that, I suppose I'd have to find a way to disable the motherboard graphics card
Any ideas? If this seems like a good idea, can you recommend a reasonable graphics card? I'm not a gamer. The most graphics-intensive thing I do is watch a movie.
TIA, Bill _______________________________________________ Wlug mailing list Wlug@mail.wlug.org http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug
Oops. Maybe not hardware... I forgot that I ran up2date yesterday morning and installed the newest xorg-x11 packages. I also installed wine (just deinstalled it). I hadn't rebooted after installing the X packages until the reboot that showed the problems. Hmm... Any ideas? Is there an "easy" way to revert to the previous version of the X packages? Thanks, Bill
On Sun, Sep 18, 2005 at 08:03:24AM -0400, Bill Mills-Curran wrote:
On Sat, Sep 17, 2005 at 10:40:28PM -0400, Bill Mills-Curran wrote:
Thank god for mutt... My motherboard integrated graphics died this evening. It still works in console mode (have to boot to init 3), but when I try to start graphics, or go to init 5 -- caput. What I see is a most of the firmware boot (e machine logo) with fritzed colors in a band across the top -- about 15% of the screen.
I was wondering if I could just add a new card and have that work. To do that, I suppose I'd have to find a way to disable the motherboard graphics card
Any ideas? If this seems like a good idea, can you recommend a reasonable graphics card? I'm not a gamer. The most graphics-intensive thing I do is watch a movie.
TIA, Bill _______________________________________________ Wlug mailing list Wlug@mail.wlug.org http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug
Oops. Maybe not hardware... I forgot that I ran up2date yesterday morning and installed the newest xorg-x11 packages. I also installed wine (just deinstalled it). I hadn't rebooted after installing the X packages until the reboot that showed the problems. Hmm...
Any ideas?
Is there an "easy" way to revert to the previous version of the X packages?
Thanks, Bill _______________________________________________ Wlug mailing list Wlug@mail.wlug.org http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug
Well, I downgraded to the earlier xorg-x11 packages and the problem went away. I filed a bug with redhat: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=168631 I did not file one with xorg because this looks like the X software did not change -- it looks like a change by the fedora team caused the problem for me. Bill
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