[Klug-general] Graphics card glitches

[Dan Attwood]

have you tried to install the offical nvidia linux drivers from the nvidia
website?

also if it's doing the same thing in vista could if be that your power
supply isn't up to the job?



On 14 May 2010 10:15, Michael E. Rentell <michael.rentell at ntlworld.com>wrote:

> G'mornin' all,
>
> Two or three years ago our illustrious colleague from Indie IT in
> Birchington provided me with a bespoke sooper dooper desktop compooter
> which has served me very well and still does. About a month ago the
> graphics card blew (NVIDIA 256Mb - make unknown).
>
> I replaced it with a boxed inno3D 512 Mb card which claimed to be nvidia
> authorised GeForce 9400. My version of Linux is PCLinuxOS 2010 (32-bit)
> This is essentially Mandriva for dummies but improved by Synaptic. It
> has recognised this card as NVIDIA 'cards not working with nv'.
>
> It seems to function reasonably well but occasionally the screen goes
> black for about 3 seconds. It then recovers and is fine. This happens
> more frequently with graphically intense programs like
> GoogleEarth/Streetview or Stellarium etc. I wondered if this was a
> driver problem. However, I also have a Vista 64-bit (sorry!) on another
> partition and I have installed the windoze drivers which came with the
> card. Same problem.
>
> Any ideas? Thanks be to all.
> MikeR
>
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