[ale] Something blew up -- but what

[Calvin Harrigan]

+1 on the nvidia proprietory drivers just working.  Not just working but 
usually with all features of the card enabled.  I even ran SLI for a while.


On 11/20/2012 11:30 AM, Jim Kinney wrote:
> Radeon support is improving but it has a LONG way to go. Only the newest
> chips are fully supported.
>
> The NVidia proprietary driver ALWAYS works. Yes, it's not GPL but
> sometimes things do just need to work.
>
> Other options are harder to deal with as Radeon and NVidia are pretty
> much the only two players left the graphics "card" arena. Most of the
> others make embedded on mobo chips.
>
> On 11/20/2012 10:54 AM, Sean Kilpatrick wrote:
>>
>> Things often go wrong in threes. At this rate I am heading for 9.
>>
>> :(
>>
>> Unscrambled the memory problem by removing the new memory sticks and
>> returning to the original setup. But late last night on a reboot all I
>> got was a beep code: one long, two short. That means, "video is toast."
>>
>> I'm guessing here, but I suspect that trying to drive the new monitor
>> at 1920 X 1200 overtaxed the onboard video chips and they died. MOBO
>> is at least 5 years old.
>>
>> So, today I ran yet again to Frys and purchased a new video card, an
>> ASUS 6450 with 1 gig onboard memory. I'm not playing games so have no
>> need for a high-end video card. My thinking was that the ASUS card
>> would be able to speak to the ASUS monitor.
>>
>> Not that I can tell. The video card won't produce anything above 1600
>> X 1200. ASUS apparently doesn't have a linux driver so now I am
>> stymied with a monitor that doesn't look anywhere nearly as good as it
>> should.
>>
>> According to documentation on the web, this card actually has an AMD
>> Radeon HD6450 graphics chip, which is capable of resolutions above
>> what this monitor can handle. Go figure.
>>
>> Current video driver is the 2.1 Mesa 7.8.2.
>>
>> Advice on where to go next would be appreciated.
>>
>> Sean
>>
>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> On Saturday, November 17, 2012 06:15:04 pm Sean Kilpatrick wrote:
>>
>> > I'm planning on running memtest overnight. It takes a while.
>>
>> >
>>
>> > But now I have discovered another oddity. Videos don't play.
>>
>> > Specifically, I can hear the audio stream, but all I see is a green
>>
>> > screen where the video ought to be.
>>
>> > Ought to add that I changed the output from computer to monitor from
>>
>> > vga to DVI. I am about to change it back and see if that makes any
>>
>> > difference.
>>
>> >
>>
>> > Sean
>>
>> >
>>
>> > On Saturday, November 17, 2012 05:42:33 pm Sam Rakowski wrote:
>>
>> > > Hi,
>>
>> > >
>>
>> > > I can't tell definitively from the syslog, but I would imagine that
>>
>> > > it has something to do with your new memory. Have you tried running
>>
>> > > memtest on the memory? Sent via BlackBerry
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