Re: Asus motherboard hangs in X

[Russ Cook <russcook@mbo.net>]

Matthew Robinson wrote:

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>>>Try changing the driver in xorg.conf to 'vesa'. This will be much
>>>slower than the binary Nvidia drivers, but if it works, youve found
>>>your problem.
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>>Thanks Matt.  I have changed the driver to Vesa, and so far I can't make
>>it crash.  I am now upgrading from stable to unstable (amd64) and
>>downloading a current smp kernel.  If all stays stable (pun intended), then
>>I'll ask the experts for suggestions regarding graphics boards and drivers.
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>>Thanks much,
>>  russ
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> If the vesa driver works, the open source 'nv' driver, may also work.
> Its nvidia specific, but not as good as the official binary nvidia
> drivers. As far as I know, nv performs much better than vesa, but much
> worse than nvidia.
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No, I started the whole process with the open source 'nv' driver.  I will
try it again after this upgrade completes, but 'nv' is what I was using for
several weeks before finally trying 'nvidia' which did not help, either.

Thanks again.
  Russ