On Friday 30 July 2010 00:09:06 Arun Khan wrote: > On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 11:59 PM, jtd <[email protected]> wrote: > > Your 2nd post suggests that the agp is not radeon, in which case > > the bug would be something different. > > FWIW - My observation - lappies with Intel CPUs the GPU is > typically from Intel and a few have NVidia whereas those with AMD > CPU typically have the ATI (part of AMD) GPU and few have the > NVidia GPU.
True. I havent seen an Intel mobo with a radeon on board. > The OP has already disclosed that his GPU is from the Intel family. > > I have an Acer 5542 with ATI Radeon HD 4200 and I have experienced > the console lock - no ssh access as well but that is yet another > problem I have a mobo with hd4200. Switching X<>console will freeze the display. But ssh works, as does everything else. Firing up an X app reports no errors. Killing X and restarting does not restore the display. Afaik one has to reboot to restore display. Google said it was an agp kernel bug. Distro was Lucid. -- Rgds JTD -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
