Re: [Hampshire] Laptop display borked.

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Author: The Holy ettlz
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To: paul, Hampshire LUG Discussion List
Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Laptop display borked.

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gpg: failed to create temporary file '/var/lib/lurker/.#lk0x56def100.hantslug.org.uk.25113': Permission denied
gpg: keyblock resource '/var/lib/lurker/pubring.gpg': Permission denied
gpg: Signature made Sun Sep 27 12:24:05 2009 BST
gpg: using DSA key 2FF22CF403F94B5D
gpg: Can't check signature: No public key
On Sun, 2009-09-27 at 10:18 +0000, Paul Stimpson wrote:
> Hi Adam,
>
> Sorry to hear your machine is sick.
>
> Does the GPU have its own memory or is it shared/UMA (stolen from the system's memory)? If it takes memory from the machine's pool then a badly seated / duff DIMM might produce both symptoms you're seeing (corrupt graphics and crashes).
>
> I would try taking each stick of RAM out in turn or moving them around and seeing if the symptoms change. If you can get the machine to start and display then I would run memtest86 for a few passes and see if it finds any problems.


I'm not sure memtest86+ will test shared memory that gets allocated to
graphics at startup. Check the BIOS settings and make sure the amount
shared is as small as possible so it'll test as much as it can.

James

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