On Monday 03 July 2006 02:37 pm, jtd wrote:
> Has any one tried 2.6.17-3.  2.6.8.1 (sarge i386) keeps crashing on
> boot with a GF FX5200se agp card on an i845 mobo (onboard vga
> disabled). However  booting with on board graphics enabled is fine.
> Strangely running X with Xinerama with both on board and the FX5200
> and two monitors works like a charm - except for tvout on the
> FX5200

Booting with 2.4.27 solved the crash on boot problem. Using vesa 
driver  instead of nv in X got the tv out working (clone mode). So 
now i can use the tv as a fuzzy monitor. But vlc works great.
Next will try nvidia drivers on 2.6.17-3  and 2.4.27.
BTW Suse 10.1 with a 2.6.13 kernel also crashes.

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Rgds
JTD

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