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From: Jeff <jmg_071769@×××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] screen flickers/static
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 18:29:59
Message-Id: 442437BC.6030602@comcast.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] screen flickers/static by Michael Sullivan
1 You could try, as root:
2
3 lspci and/or lspci -v
4
5 Here's mine for example:
6
7 # lspci
8 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 945G/GZ/P/PL Express Memory
9 Controller Hub (rev 02)
10 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 945G/GZ/P/PL Express PCI Express
11 Root Port (rev 02)
12 00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express
13 Port 1 (rev 01)
14 00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express
15 Port 2 (rev 01)
16 00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI
17 #1 (rev 01)
18 00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI
19 #2 (rev 01)
20 00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI
21 #3 (rev 01)
22 00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI
23 #4 (rev 01)
24 00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB2 EHCI
25 Controller (rev 01)
26 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev e1)
27 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GB/GR (ICH7 Family) LPC
28 Interface Bridge (rev 01)
29 00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) IDE
30 Controller (rev 01)
31 00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801GB/GR/GH (ICH7 Family)
32 Serial ATA Storage Controller IDE (rev 01)
33 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) SMBus Controller
34 (rev 01)
35 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce 7800 GT
36 (rev a1)
37 04:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82540EM Gigabit Ethernet
38 Controller (rev 02)
39 04:02.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB0400 Audigy2 Value
40
41 >From the list, you can see that my video is nVidia.
42
43 HTH!
44
45 -Jeff
46
47 Michael Sullivan wrote:
48 > On Fri, 2006-03-24 at 12:54 -0500, JimD wrote:
49 >
50 >>On Fri, 24 Mar 2006 08:15:37 -0600
51 >>Michael Sullivan <michael@××××××××××××.com> wrote:
52 >>
53 >>
54 >>>My wife has the same problem with her computer running Gentoo, but I
55 >>>generated the xorg.conf file from X -configure when I first installed
56 >>>Gentoo on it for her, but her screen still flickers. Is there any way
57 >>>to find out what drivers would need to be installed (if the drivers
58 >>>are the problem)?
59 >>>
60 >>
61 >>This is probably a driver problem. Are you using the vesa driver?
62 >>When I first installed Gentoo I was using the vesa driver until I
63 >>downloaded the NVidia driver. With the vesa driver I too had
64 >>flickers. However once I installed the Nvidia driver the problem went
65 >>away.
66 >>
67 >>What type of video card do you have?
68 >>
69 >>Jim
70 >
71 >
72 > I'm not sure. Is there a way of finding out the video card without
73 > opening the case and looking? We have no idea where the manual went...
74 >
75
76 --
77 Jabba the Hutt:
78 Bring me Solo and the Wookiee! They will all suffer
79 for this outrage.
80
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Re: [gentoo-user] screen flickers/static Michael Sullivan <michael@××××××××××××.com>