Re: Fwd: P5K-VM v BFG NVidia 8800GT OC
http://www.linuxcompatible.org/compatlist3.html
The problems with the 8800's seem to happen on Intel and Via based
Motherboards. I haven't heard of any problems with the recent nforce
boards.
On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 11:28 PM, Massimo Savino
<north.twilight@gmail.com> wrote:
> Don't know if anyone is still interested in this, but I've attached output
> from both dmesg and lspci -vv. Also, I spoke with the computer shop where I
> purchased the card and they've agreed to check it out for defects.
>
> Robert, you had mentioned that the motherboard was incompatible with the
> card -- where can I find a list of compatible boards for Linux?
>
> Thanks everyone!
> Mass
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> On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 7:58 PM, Massimo Savino <north.twilight@gmail.com>
> wrote:
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> > Looks like I spoke too soon. It's the motherboard, as someone else
> mentioned.
> >
> > I am about to take a brick to it.
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> > On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 9:32 AM, Massimo Savino <north.twilight@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > > I reinstalled last night with the card in from the start and it appears
> to be using the nv driver well.
> > >
> > > Now I need to test the proprietary driver, will keep everyone posted.
> > >
> > > Thanks Len! These are good suggestions, I'm sorry I wasn't able to test
> them.
> > >
> > > Kind regards
> > > Mass
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> > > On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 8:37 AM, Lennart Sorensen
> <lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:
> > >
> > > >
> > > > On Thu, Apr 03, 2008 at 11:34:07PM -0400, Massimo Savino wrote:
> > > > > The bios got updated a few weeks ago to the most recent version. I
> just
> > > > > realised that I can just reinstall Debian, this time with the
> videocard
> > > > > plugged in from the start, and then upgrade that way. I'll try that
> and see
> > > > > how it goes.
> > > > >
> > > > > I removed the videocard and booted into a 2gb setup. seems ok, but
> that's
> > > > > not unexpected: it worked fine with 4gb RAM too.
> > > > >
> > > > > In answer to these qns:
> > > > > *only part way through booting linux does it go blank? Is
> > > > > there still disk activity after it goes blank?
> > > > > *
> > > > > Yes to the first, and the keyboard appears to function just fine, so
> it
> > > > > looks like it's a video issue only (thank God).
> > > >
> > > > Could you ssh to it from another machine and capture the ouput of
> > > > 'dmesg' and 'lspci -vv' and such? Maybe there is some clue in there.
> > > > If it's just the video that gets messed up the system will probably
> > > > still work fine and let you access it removely assuming you have
> > > > openssh-server installed.
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Len Sorensen
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