On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 02:48:29PM -0700, Derek wrote: > I am not sure, I do not want to take apart this computer because it is > my grandfathers, and we may be turning it in for a new one soon. > > And the second question you had, where can I find that? > > On Jul 22, 2:36 pm, Chris Miller <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 2:23 PM, Derek <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Given that I am new to the entire Linux thing, (and so used to the > > > Windows atmosphere) I am having slight problems with my O.S. > > > > > First of all, whenever it idles for a little bit, my screen goes black > > > and starts flashing multi-colored bars. I have Ubuntu 10.04 installed > > > on two desktop computers, and same story for both of them. It seems to > > > be a problem with the Screen saver, because when I tried to edit the > > > screen saver to switch it off, the black screen and multi colored bars > > > came up again. Also, if I have been using this O.S. for over an hour > > > straight, the same story. > > > > Sounds like a video driver issue. > > > > What video chip do you have, and what driver does Ubuntu say is installed? > > > > -- > > Registered Linux Addict #431495 > > For Faith and Family! | John 3:16!http://www.fsdev.net/ > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. > To post a message, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] > For more options, visit our group at > http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup You can get both pieces of information with lspci. Run 'lspci -vv' and find the stanza about your video card, and paste that output. i.e.:
$ lspci -vv
...
04:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G98 [GeForce 8400 GS]
(rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: Elitegroup Computer Systems Device 1091
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr-
Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort-
<MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
Latency: 0
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 16
Region 0: Memory at fd000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
Region 1: Memory at d0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
Region 3: Memory at fa000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=32M]
Region 5: I/O ports at dc00 [size=128]
[virtual] Expansion ROM at feae0000 [disabled] [size=128K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: nvidia
Kernel modules: nvidia
This shows us what video card, and what driver the kernel's using.
Also post the output of 'uname -a', since that will give us contextual
information about the version of the video driver.
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