Hi there,
I'm Gerd, new on the list, having used different flavours of Unix since 1989.
Since 6.3 I'm using almost exclusively Suse's distribution.
I bought a new laptop about a year and a half ago, MEDION Akoya MD96852, Intel
Core 2 Duo, NVIDIA GeForce 8600GS. It was furnished with Vista. I partinioned
the disk and installed Opensuse 11.1. With that I had problems with the
graphic. When booting the screen remained black after I selected the version
from the grub menu. The statistics were that it would come up correctly about
every 6th attempt. I opened a thread in forums.opensuse.org where I received
quite a few hints, all concentrating on the graphic card and its driver. I
tried everything. Nothing worked. It ended with somebody suggesting it was the
hardware. I discarded that because Vista was starting and running without
problems. Then came opensuse 11.2 and all was fine for half a year. With
opensuse 11.3 it was worse than with 11.1. It would not start the graphics at
all. Sometimes I could log in from another computer via the LAN. I could also
start it up with the emergence setup using the proprietary graphics driver.
Searching the various files under /var/log occasionally I found hints for
malfunctioning hardware without any specifying.
So I returned to 11.2 but also filed a repair ticket with Medion (still under
warranty). They checked it and stated that all the hardware is ok. It turned
out that all their testing software is Windows based which left me with the
uneasy feeling there may still be a problem. Medion always refers to Windows.
If Windows is running all is well and they feel no obligation to pursue the
problem.
Can anyone help me? Is there rigorous testing software for the graphic card and
its memory? Has anyone had a similar problem?
All hints are appreciated. Thanks,
Gerd
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