Possible ubuntu video driver bug

[Derek Trotter]

Good idea, but the motherboard does not have a video card onboard.  The 
bios does have a setting to   set the primary video adapter as AGP or 
PCI.  It's set to PCI.

Thanks for taking the time to write your suggestion.

Derek

On 11/11/2011 07:44 AM, Stephen wrote:
> Something to consider in some CMOS you can have settings that choose a
> preferred video card, and sometimes on-board video is not disabled
> fully. some Intel boards are notorious for this.
>
> Look in your settings and see what you can find. this may help. I had
> one helluva time with PCI-e graphics and Ubuntu for a while back in
> the 8.xx days with this.
>
> On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 4:38 PM, Derek Trotter<expat.arizonan at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> It happens whether or not I'm playing a video.  Most of the videos I watch
>> are not flash videos.  They're mostly avi files with xvid, but some were
>> mpeg1 or mpeg2.  I used vlc to play them.
>>
>> On 11/10/2011 16:32, Dazed_75 wrote:
>>
>> All of your issues sound like they happen when playing videos.  Is that true
>> or are there other times as well?
>>
>> As far as what else it could be, there could be lots of possibilities but
>> they might be hard to track down to elements that are common to Ubuntu,
>> Kubuntu, and Fedora.  If it is localized to playing videos, I would
>> certainly be suspicious of the command line based underpinnings the players
>> might use.  Oh, and are the videos Flash based or not?
>>
>> If you are coming to the meeting tonight and can come to the restaurant
>> after, someone there may be able to help.
>>
>> On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 4:21 PM, Derek Trotter<expat.arizonan at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>> On 11/10/2011 16:10, Dazed_75 wrote:
>>>
>>> Try looking to see if you are using the open source generic nvidia driver
>>> or the proprietary one.  I am not sure where that is in the Kubuntu menus
>>> but look for something in System, or Administration with a name that is
>>> probably something about Hardware.  It should run a program that looks to
>>> see if there are proprietary drivers you might choose to use.
>>>
>>> When I first installed the os I noticed the problem with the driver it
>>> came with.  I checked and found where it suggested a proprietary driver and
>>> offered one other.  I chose the one that was recommended.  The bug showed
>>> itself with the driver that came with the install and the one I installed
>>> later.
>>>
>>> I AM curious though if you have some particular reason for suspecting it
>>> is due to you having that video card since a screen freeze could be
>>> something above the driver level.
>>>
>>> I've had that card for about 2 years while the machine was running XP and
>>> didn't have this problem.  It only showed itself after I installed the
>>> latest Ubuntu and Kubuntu version as well as the other latest linux flavors
>>> I mentioned earlier.  Fedora 15 was the worst.  It would freeze the screen
>>> as soon as I started playing a video.  The others would let me watch at
>>> least for a few minutes before the screen froze.
>>>
>>> Also if it's not a driver problem, what else could it be?
>>>
>>> On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 3:59 PM, Derek Trotter<expat.arizonan at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>> I have an NVIDIA Geforce 8400 GS card that plugs into a PCI slot.  I have
>>>> no problems with it in XP, but when I installed Kubuntu 11.10 I found a
>>>> problem.  Occasionally the screen freezes.  I can't switch to a console.
>>>>   Also I can't kill the x server.  I know the machine has not completely
>>>> locked up because when I have audio playing, it keeps playing even though
>>>> the screen has frozen.  None of the usual means to shut down a machine work.
>>>>   The only thing I can do is hit the reset button, press the power switch for
>>>> several seconds until the machine shuts off, or pull the plug.  I've
>>>> encountered this on Ubuntu 11.10, Kubuntu 11.10, Mepis 11 and Fedora 15.  I
>>>> installed the LTS verson of Kubuntu 10 and haven't had any problems with it.
>>>>   Does anyone have any idea what's going on or how to fix it?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
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