Thank Mark Allums ! I use kernel 2.4 because of producer, a video capturing application video capturing is hard to learn and config As I'm happy with the old producer I'm unwilling to spend more energy on learning/upgrading
My machine is HP vl420 running P4 with 128Mx3 memory On 6/11/10, Mark Allums <m...@allums.com> wrote: > On 6/11/2010 7:04 PM, Long Wind wrote: > > > Yes. We don't need to know specific reasons. However, just knowing, as an > example, that you only have 32M of memory, would tell us that a suggestion > to only run 2.6 kernels would not be helpful and to skip that line of > thinking. > > I personally have not run a 2.4 kernel since 2.6 was released, so I cannot > help there (my memories are fading). I did some Googling and found that you > are not alone in having problems, but a random check of a few sites revealed > that every person required a different solution, so I must fall back on > general suggestions. > > I don't suppose you are having a difficulty with your BIOS? On older > computers, the AGP aperture had to be set correctly. Also: under Sarge, is > the agpgart driver set up properly? > > Sometimes a scrambled screen is a hardware problem, and sometimes it is a > memory problem. > > If all else fails, I used to have some success when compiling the kernel > myself, rather than using a "stock" kernel. This is a "blue sky" > suggestion, it may not be helpful. > > Did you mean Etch with 2.4 kernel is not working, but it works in Sarge, > and Etch with 2.6 works? Thus it is the combination that doesn't work? > Then it is a function of of X under 2.4? Have you looked in X-related > forums and lists? Have you looked in ATI-related lists and forums? Have you > tried searching for similar issues under (*gasp*) other Linux distributions? > Have you looked in HP forums? > > > > Good Luck! > > > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to > debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of > "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: > http://lists.debian.org/4c12dad1.5010...@allums.com > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlktinfxopxpofj0ndpsfjxcrdyqjmizwj0wzn7l...@mail.gmail.com