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 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 >> 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 >>> 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 >>>> --------------------------------------------------- >>>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >>>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>>> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Dazed_75 a.k.a. 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