have you tried to install the offical nvidia linux drivers from the nvidia website?<div><br></div><div>also if it's doing the same thing in vista could if be that your power supply isn't up to the job?<br><div><br>
</div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 14 May 2010 10:15, Michael E. Rentell <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:michael.rentell@ntlworld.com">michael.rentell@ntlworld.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
G'mornin' all,<br>
<br>
Two or three years ago our illustrious colleague from Indie IT in<br>
Birchington provided me with a bespoke sooper dooper desktop compooter<br>
which has served me very well and still does. About a month ago the<br>
graphics card blew (NVIDIA 256Mb - make unknown).<br>
<br>
I replaced it with a boxed inno3D 512 Mb card which claimed to be nvidia<br>
authorised GeForce 9400. My version of Linux is PCLinuxOS 2010 (32-bit)<br>
This is essentially Mandriva for dummies but improved by Synaptic. It<br>
has recognised this card as NVIDIA 'cards not working with nv'.<br>
<br>
It seems to function reasonably well but occasionally the screen goes<br>
black for about 3 seconds. It then recovers and is fine. This happens<br>
more frequently with graphically intense programs like<br>
GoogleEarth/Streetview or Stellarium etc. I wondered if this was a<br>
driver problem. However, I also have a Vista 64-bit (sorry!) on another<br>
partition and I have installed the windoze drivers which came with the<br>
card. Same problem.<br>
<br>
Any ideas? Thanks be to all.<br>
MikeR<br>
<br>
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