[gentoo-user] Dodgy hardware?!?!

2007-01-31 Thread Dave Oxley
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I have a MythTV frontend running Gentoo on an AMD 64bit with an Nvidia 6600 graphics card. I have had no end of problems with the graphics card (Xid errors). It crashes with a white line across the screen regularly when 3d goom is up when I'm play

Re: [gentoo-user] Dodgy hardware?!?!

2007-01-31 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 31 January 2007 14:27, Dave Oxley wrote: > Hi, > > I have a MythTV frontend running Gentoo on an AMD 64bit with an > Nvidia 6600 graphics card. I have had no end of problems with the > graphics card (Xid errors). It crashes with a white line across the > screen regularly when 3d goom i

Re: [gentoo-user] Dodgy hardware?!?!

2007-01-31 Thread Dan Farrell
On Wed, 31 Jan 2007 23:27:10 +1100 Dave Oxley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there a way of testing the RAM? a great way, yes, and it's provided on the gentoo boot cds, even the minimal. at the isolinux (boot:) prompt, just type memtest-86 and patiently await the completion of just one test.

Re: [gentoo-user] Dodgy hardware?!?!

2007-02-01 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 31 Jan 2007 06:34:01 -0600 Dan Farrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 31 Jan 2007 23:27:10 +1100 > Dave Oxley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Is there a way of testing the RAM? > > a great way, yes, and it's provided on the gentoo boot cds, even the > minimal. at the isolin

RE: [gentoo-user] Dodgy hardware?!?!

2007-02-01 Thread
> -Original Message- > From: Hans-Werner Hilse [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 01 February 2007 13:05 > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Dodgy hardware?!?! > > > Hi, > > On Wed, 31 Jan 2007 06:34:01 -0600 Dan Farrel