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Trouble with onboard video for Dell Optiplex 745 and Athena installs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Myron Freeman)
Fri Aug 31 12:05:59 2007
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Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 12:05:38 -0400
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Hi.
I have been trying to do Athena installations on to a bunch of Dell
Optiplex 745s with onboard video but the installs seem to be not
completely compatible. Everything will work initially but once the
machine is logged out and idle for some time (I haven't been able to
nail down a consistent idle time; it seems to vary greatly), xlogin
goes off into lala land and the only way I can get things back is a
reboot. Everything appears to revolve around having to use the
generic VESA drivers as opposed to something specific for the Intel
GMA3000 on the motherboard. This happens no matter if I use the
current Athena 5a installer or the Athena 6 beta installer.
Thanks for whatever you can do with this.
-Fletch
