reggyt
November 28th, 2009, 07:00 AM
Hi there,
Yesterday I installed the latest Ubuntu version on my old IBM Thinkpad T40. I had a spare harddrive so just did a fresh install. After initially all looking good, started to get system freezes that could only be sorted by powering of. After reading a few forums I switched of the extra dells and wistle provided by compiz and the freezes stopped. It did appear that the video driver the system install had defaulted was not ATI. Soon after seeing this started to get strange effects on the screen, which involved small horizontal line disruption giving a "fuzzy" effect. At this point I was worried, powered off, pulled the hardrive and put by windows HD backin. The problems is that I'm now stuck with the "fuzzy" screen spell, that come and go. I'm thinking now that some perminant damage has been done to my videocard. Would be greatful to hear if other have had similar issues ?
Cheers,
John.
Yesterday I installed the latest Ubuntu version on my old IBM Thinkpad T40. I had a spare harddrive so just did a fresh install. After initially all looking good, started to get system freezes that could only be sorted by powering of. After reading a few forums I switched of the extra dells and wistle provided by compiz and the freezes stopped. It did appear that the video driver the system install had defaulted was not ATI. Soon after seeing this started to get strange effects on the screen, which involved small horizontal line disruption giving a "fuzzy" effect. At this point I was worried, powered off, pulled the hardrive and put by windows HD backin. The problems is that I'm now stuck with the "fuzzy" screen spell, that come and go. I'm thinking now that some perminant damage has been done to my videocard. Would be greatful to hear if other have had similar issues ?
Cheers,
John.