[PLUG] video issues

Mark Townsley mstownsley at gmail.com
Mon Mar 16 00:10:03 UTC 2015


Some questions:

1)  After lock up (and reboot to get in), do syslog reveals any error?

2)  Is there a pattern with what you are doing that always lead up to the
lock-up?
(e.g  you were using VLC to play a movie etc...)


-Mark


On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 5:07 PM, Denis Heidtmann <denis.heidtmann at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I have had lock-up issues with my desk-top four times in the last week.  My
> son was here when it last happened.  He used my laptop to log onto the
> desktop.  He concluded that the video was the issue, and thought that it
> was either a nvidia driver issue or the display hardware (on MB Nvidia
> GeForce 8200 (rev a2).  So the driver was changed to the OS drive,
> supposedly nouveau.  But it appears that the driver used is VESA, the only
> displays it thinks I have is laptop; it detects no other displays, and the
> resolution options are very limited.
>
> I have had for some time issues with the display, a Samsung
> SyncMaster216bw.  The issues seem to be related to power supply warm-up.
>
> My question: is it possible that the monitor ps issues are causing the
> video problems I describe above, preventing detection of the monitor?  I
> can find out by replacing the display, as planned.  Wayne suggested a ASUS
> VE228H,  If I know the monitor issues are the cause of the video problems I
> can stop the video problem search.
>
> -Denis
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