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On Fri, 2006-03-24 at 12:54 -0500, JimD wrote: |
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> On Fri, 24 Mar 2006 08:15:37 -0600 |
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> Michael Sullivan <michael@××××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> > |
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> > My wife has the same problem with her computer running Gentoo, but I |
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> > generated the xorg.conf file from X -configure when I first installed |
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> > Gentoo on it for her, but her screen still flickers. Is there any way |
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> > to find out what drivers would need to be installed (if the drivers |
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> > are the problem)? |
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> > |
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> This is probably a driver problem. Are you using the vesa driver? |
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> When I first installed Gentoo I was using the vesa driver until I |
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> downloaded the NVidia driver. With the vesa driver I too had |
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> flickers. However once I installed the Nvidia driver the problem went |
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> away. |
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> What type of video card do you have? |
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> Jim |
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I'm not sure. Is there a way of finding out the video card without |
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opening the case and looking? We have no idea where the manual went... |
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