Re: Video driver stopped working

Haines Brown <brownh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

After running without a problem for some time, suddenly my wife's
machine (debian etch on Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L MB) seems to have stopped
responding to mouse inputs, and then when I exited X, display of
keyboard inputs as well. So I rebooted to find that the X server
wouldn't restart.

The PCI-E 16X MSI NX8500GT graphics card has a nVidia chip.

So I replaced the MSI card with another MSI (different model)

So you have a system which worked fine and then stopped working? My guess
is that this is because of a hardware error. Your problem seem graphics
related, but you tried 3 different drivers and 2 different cards so my
next guess is that your motherboard might be flaky.

One easy test to run is memtest86. A memory fault might not be the most
likeyly in this case, but the test is so easy to run that it would still
be my first step in tracking the error.

regards Henrik
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