What video cards work best with MDK 10 CE?

[p8riot]

I have MDK 10 CE running on a Dell Dimension 2400 2.53 GHz P-4 and 1GB of Ram. The onboard video shares 64MB of RAM and I think it is the reason that I am having some issues.

 

I was using KDE 3.2 but found that my system runs better (i.e. a lot fewer crashes) on Elightenment, but I am still having some problems that I think are related to the video card. If I am wrong could someone please point me in the right direction?

 

First, when I boot up two thirds of the time my screen hangs at the blue screen with an "X" cursor instead of moving on to the wristwatch and then the window manager. I can Ctrl+Alt+Backspace and reboot. Sometimes it will boot all the way into Enlightenment, and sometimes it hangs at the same spot.

 

The other issue has to do with XScreensaver. I have it running almost exactly the way I want it, but after about 8 hrs it stops completely and I get a vertical rainbow across the lower half of the screen. Ctrl+Alt+Backspace doesn't do anything at all in this case and I have to hard reboot.

 

Has anyone else had these problems and been able to resolve them? Like I was saying before, I think it may have something to do with the video card and the shared video memory. If that is the case, what card(s) are the best for the mdk distro? I am not a gamer, but do a lot of graphics work and web design.

Edited April 1, 2004 by p8riot

[nggalai]

Good morning,

 

what does your XF86Config-4 look like? Especially the "Module" and "Device" sections are interesting.

 

93,

-Sascha.rb

[Ixthusdan]

Be sure that you have installed the multitude of updates. There have been lots of kde updates, and Mandrake tool updates, and a kernel update........ I would do all of that first. B)

[p8riot]

Good morning,

 

what does your XF86Config-4 look like? Especially the "Module" and "Device" sections are interesting.

 

93,

-Sascha.rb

Here are the contents of my XF86 Config-4:

 

# File generated by XFdrake.

 

# **********************************************************************

# Refer to the XF86Config man page for details about the format of

# this file.

# **********************************************************************

 

Section "Files"

# Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated together)

# By default, Mandrake 6.0 and later now use a font server independent of

# the X server to render fonts.

FontPath "unix/:-1"

EndSection

 

Section "ServerFlags"

#DontZap # disable <Crtl><Alt><BS> (server abort)

AllowMouseOpenFail # allows the server to start up even if the mouse doesn't work

#DontZoom # disable <Crtl><Alt><KP_+>/<KP_-> (resolution switching)

EndSection

 

Section "Module"

Load "dbe" # Double-Buffering Extension

Load "v4l" # Video for Linux

Load "extmod"

Load "type1"

Load "freetype"

Load "glx" # 3D layer

Load "dri" # direct rendering

EndSection

 

Section "DRI"

Mode 0666

EndSection

 

Section "InputDevice"

Identifier "Keyboard1"

Driver "Keyboard"

Option "XkbModel" "pc105"

Option "XkbLayout" "en_US"

Option "XkbOptions" ""

EndSection

 

Section "InputDevice"

Identifier "Mouse1"

Driver "mouse"

Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"

Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"

Option "ZAxisMapping" "6 7"

EndSection

 

Section "Monitor"

Identifier "monitor1"

VendorName "Plug'n Play"

ModelName "Dell E773c"

HorizSync 30-70

VertRefresh 50-160

 

# Sony Vaio C1(X,XS,VE,VN)?

# 1024x480 @ 85.6 Hz, 48 kHz hsync

ModeLine "1024x480" 65.00 1024 1032 1176 1344 480 488 494 563 -hsync -vsync

 

# TV fullscreen mode or DVD fullscreen output.

# 768x576 @ 79 Hz, 50 kHz hsync

ModeLine "768x576" 50.00 768 832 846 1000 576 590 595 630

 

# 768x576 @ 100 Hz, 61.6 kHz hsync

ModeLine "768x576" 63.07 768 800 960 1024 576 578 590 616

EndSection

 

Section "Device"

Identifier "device1"

VendorName "Intel Corporation"

BoardName "Intel 845"

Driver "i810"

Option "DPMS"

EndSection

 

Section "Screen"

Identifier "screen1"

Device "device1"

Monitor "monitor1"

DefaultColorDepth 16

 

Subsection "Display"

Depth 8

Virtual 1024 768

EndSubsection

 

Subsection "Display"

Depth 15

Virtual 1024 768

EndSubsection

 

Subsection "Display"

Depth 16

Virtual 1024 768

EndSubsection

 

Subsection "Display"

Depth 24

Virtual 1024 768

EndSubsection

EndSection

 

Section "ServerLayout"

Identifier "layout1"

InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard"

InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer"

Screen "screen1"

EndSection

Edited April 3, 2004 by p8riot

[p8riot]

Be sure that you have installed the multitude of updates. There have been lots of kde updates, and Mandrake tool updates, and a kernel update........ I would do all of that first. B)

I tried to install updates, but apparently I am completely up to date (according to MCC)

[durvish]

Make sure your updating from cooker if not I have found that MCC does not find any updates.