Re: lenny amd64 for Desktop

[Don Montgomery <donm@methodbydesign.com>]

video card info:

ATI Radeon 9200
AGP-9200S-TD2W-128D
AGP 8X
0340005513; DML-1628
rv280/M9+ Radeon 9200

lspci
...
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV280 [Radeon 9200 SE] (rev 01)

Don

On Fri, 7 Dec 2007, Heikki Levanto wrote:
> Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2007 17:44:58 +0100
> From: Heikki Levanto <heikki@lsd.dk>
> To: debian-amd64@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: lenny amd64 for Desktop
> Resent-Date: Fri,  7 Dec 2007 16:45:10 +0000 (UTC)
> Resent-From: debian-amd64@lists.debian.org
>
> On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 10:18:25AM -0600, Don Montgomery wrote:
> > When I leave the machine overnight, it usually loses touch
> > with the monitor.  This occurs without regard to whether I
> > lock the screen or not, or whether I leave the monitor
> > turned on or off.  No keypress, hotkey combo, or mouse
> > wiggle has any apparent effect, and I have to hard reboot.
> > I do not know what is causing it.
>
> Which graphics card do you have? And which driver? The symptoms sound much
> like what I had with Etch, Nvidia 8600, Nvidia's closed driver - except that
> it happened immediately upon start of X. Often (but not always) accompanied
> with a kernel panic in the nvidia module.
>
> I will try with my card on lenny, as soon as I get the time.
>
> -H

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