Crap.
I could of sworn I replied to this mail, but it turns out it was saved
as a draft. Not quite sure why that happened.
Anyway, yep I have tried the nv and nvidia driver, both stall when I
start X (black screen). The problem is the lines I see on the monitor
(which distort the text) happen before I even boot grub.
As I was previously shown in this thread, the graphics card is onboard
so I've decided to give up on the laptop. Maybe use it as a router :)
Thanks for the information however,
Regards,
ps. (sorry about the mail format and encoding, its the gmail default).
I'm not even using windows.
On 6/21/07, D. Hugh Redelmeier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| From: "Pierce Ward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
| Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2007 15:18:06 +0100
Sorry for the late reply.
Best not to send HTML mail to a list.
Best not to send mail encoded in WINDOWS-1252 characterset to a Linux
list.
| Although that looks like a driver issue, I can only assume my graphics card
| is borked.
It looks as if you are using the proprietary nVidia driver. You
should consider trying the open-source nv driver.
(1) most kernel folk don't want to deal with a problem when the kernel
is tainted with closed source. There are good political and
technical reasons for this.
(2) this would be a good test to see if the problem is a driver
problem.
This has the added advantage of being free (as in beer).
I hope that this suggestion is not too late to be useful.
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