Comment 63 for bug 271070

I have a gateway GT5674, it has an AMD 9500 Quad 2.2Ghz processor, onboard NVidia 6150SE (I've installed NVidia 7600GS 512M PCIe card hoping it would fix problems with Intrepid, nope, same problems exist with both), 3Gigs Ram.

I've since wiped Intrepid from my computer and am using the Hardy 64Bit install with ZERO problems.

Intrepid was giving me the same message during boot, "aperture beyond 4G... ignoring".

Using the Vesa driver, it would boot, but about 50% of the time I would have to jog the screen size to get the GUI to show up (by pressing the "ctrl-alt-[+or-]" keys). The Desktop panel, widgets, icons and control panel would intermittently discolor, disappear and/or become unfunctional. Video was very glitchy, and online games would freeze unless I kept moving the mouse pointer over the frame making real-time play exasperating.

Installing the proprietary video driver (I've tried using the 173.xx and 177.xx NVidia drivers) helps somewhat (I no longer had to jog the screen size to see the GUI), but only delays the inevitable. My youngest brother is a fan of Microsoft, and while visiting last week he had a good laugh when I went to look something up for him, and lost control of the computer before the web browser had time to load (my computer was already on, so no, I wasn't speed clicking my way to the internet).

I've been through a plethera of forums on this subject, and nobody really seems to know what the problem/problems are. I've tried several things, like messing with Xorg.conf, installing different software packages and the like, but if any of that did help, it wasn't enough to really notice.

Intrepid is a beautiful operating system, and I wish like crazy that I could use it on my computer. Until the bugs are fixed, I'll just use the Hardy. Hardy even seems to load, run and do things faster, if that makes any sense.

If there is somebody who wishes me to re-install Intreped again to grab specs and code for comparison, I will. Perhaps there is something there that could help. Just let me know what to do, and I'll do it. Please remember though, I have only been using Linux for a little over 2 years, so I'm still quite noobish at it.

Funny thing, my older brother is running Intrepid on his machine, and he says that he doesn't have any issues whatsoever with his install. Bizarre 8-P (Yes, I use the MD5Sum to check the integrity of all .iso images before committing them to disk.) I have nearly a dozen successful Linux installs covering a variety of hardware, so I'm not completely Linux illiterate (I am kinda dissed still that the guys pulled the repositories for Feisty, 'cause I have an old frame that runs best on Feisty. Well, that's another story all-together, isn't it.)

I'll get the complete hardware specs for my brothers and my computer and post them, perhaps something will jump out.

Melondrift