On Sat, 03 Jan 2009 15:43:19 -0500 Kamaraju S Kusumanchi <raju.mailingli...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dotan Cohen wrote: > > >> As for the video card, if I play a flash based movie in windows XP, there > >> will be a "blue screen memory map" error after some time. FWIW, the > >> movies work fine in Linux. I searched in google for this and found that > >> the video cards in Dell Inspiron E1505 are defective. > >> > > > > Which video card do you have? The ATI x1400 in this card was a pain in > > the beginning, but now that ATI supports Linux it is great. I am very > > happy with the video performance. > > > > $lspci | grep ATI > 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc M52 [ATI Mobility > Radeon X1300] > > I can't complain about video performance. My complaint was with the memory > parity errors when flash videos are played on Windows XP. The error is > > *** Hardware malfunction > Call your hardware vendor for support > NMI: Parity check/ memory parity error > *** The system has halted*** > > It occurs pretty randomly. Sometimes while watching a flash video it can > occur at 35th minute sometimes it can show up at 7th minute. Sometimes it > might not even show up after the full video (say 60 minutes). The videos > play fine in Linux. > Perhapse you should run memtest (aptitude install memtest86+, then reboot, choose the memtest option and let it run for a couple of hours). Could be that you have some faulty memory that windows is hitting and linux not for some reason (x3100 is a shared memory card), possibly due to video mode, double buffering etc. (although I don't know if memtest can check the video memory, you should probably set it to the minimum in the bios for the test if possible) > raju -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
