Re: defrag and error checking

vampyre wolf wrote:
> According to Lenovo (using a t30):
>
> 16MB RADEON 7500 ATI Mobility video chipset
>
> Just using the drivers on fiesty, can't find an xorg driver for my vid card.
>
> Seems odd to suddenly have problems though, had it running since that
> update with no serious problems.

This card should be relatively well supported by FOSS drivers.
http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/ATI_Mobility_Radeon_7500

If your /etc/X11/xorg.conf has:
...
Section "Device"
...
         Driver "ati"
...
EndSection
...

then it's configured properly. The proprietary ATI driver doesn't work
with that card. If that driver was put in my accident, then that could
be a source of issues. Another possibility is that the hardware has
failed in some way. Transistors, as good as they are for reliability,
do fail (especially if heated/cooled a lot). It could be that the
onboard video has failed in some way. If you can get Windows to load
and run something (a 3D game, etc), then it's probably just a Linux
driver issue. Beryl is a lot more work for a video card than the
Windows interface -- so run Doom3 a whole bunch and see if it barfs :)

It might also be CPU or RAM. Run memtest for a few laps (Ubuntu
bootdisc has memtest on it). It takes longer if you have more RAM, but
it usually finds problems. I usually test any new RAM for 2-3 passes
(it'll go over a number of different tests to try and find flaky RAM),
which finds the odd lurking problem.
Received on Thu Aug 23 20:57:32 2007