Possible ubuntu video driver bug

Fri Nov 11 13:52:18 MST 2011

If you want to try an alternate Graphics card i do have some AGP cards
floating about still.

On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 11:23 AM, Derek Trotter
<expat.arizonan at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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