Re: [SLE] display freezes-Geforce2 MX400

From: Don W. Jenkins (jinxinker_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 06/14/04

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    Someone suggested that the hardware should be in the subject line for
    better responses. There it is.

    --- "Don W. Jenkins" <jinxinker@yahoo.com> wrote:
    > This is my final stab at getting an answer. I've asked the question
    > before more than once, and I've tried everything I can think of, but
    > no
    > matter what I do, at some point, my display will freeze
    > unrecoverably,
    > either in the screensaver, the blanked screen, or while I am just
    > doing
    > something in Adobe Acrobat or Mozilla with the mouse. I have an
    > nVidia
    > video card and I have tried it with and without the nVidia drivers,
    > using ust the nv driver, with 3D on and off, with greater and lesser
    > color depths (which used to work in my last distro), changing the
    > resolutions, etc., but at some point the screen will still freeze
    > requiring a hard reboot. Not a problem with the card, because it
    > works
    > fine in Windows 2000 Server, and I could adjust things, as I said, in
    > Libranet or Mandrake so it didn't happen, by reducing the color depth
    > to 16,000 colors, which was adequate for my purposes. But can't seem
    > to get Suse to work with my card, or I don't know the magic words.
    > It
    > is a Geforce2 MX400. The rest of the system is a Celeron 2.4, 512 MB
    > RAM, 60g HD, CDRW, CDR, Proxim wireless PCI card.
    >
    > O/W I will just use W2000 Server, which works and doesn't freeze or
    > break, even though it is Bill.
    >
    > Thanks,
    > Don J.
    >
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