[kde-linux] Cannot access certain site

[david]

Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Saturday 29 March 2008 20:49:37 david wrote:
>> Anne Wilson wrote:
>>> On Saturday 29 March 2008 09:22:39 david wrote:
>>>> Anne Wilson wrote:
>>>>> So what sort of spec are you talking about?  It would help us to
>>>>> understand your problem.  As for the new laptop, maybe the video card
>>>>> is too recent?  It sometimes takes a while for things to catch up. 
>>>>> When I bought this laptop there was a similar problem, which went away
>>>>> as things updated.
>>>> We don't buy new stuff - we're bottom feeders. We buy cheap stuff.
>>>>
>>>> The wife's new laptop is a Toshiba Satellite A205-S5804, which uses
>>>> Mobile Intel GL960 Express graphics. I did try to use KUbuntu's Intel
>>>> driver with it, and only succeeded in getting a blank black screen. So
>>>> is that chipset so new that Linux doesn't really support it yet?
>>> Absolutely not.  Have you googled for this?  Try 'linux graphics GB960'. 
>>> I got plenty of hits.  For a starter
>>>
>>> http://linux.dell.com/wiki/index.php/Tech/Video/Intel
>>> <quote>
>>> The driver for this controller is known as i810, is open-source, and is
>>> distributed as part of the X.org X server packages with Linux
>>> distributions. This driver provides low-performance 3-D graphics
>>> acceleration capabilities. </quote>
>> It was the i810 driver that gave me the blank black screen on her
>> machine. Using KUbuntu 7.10 in her case.
>>
> When you say it gave you the blank screen - was that during bootup?

Yes. Normally, KUbuntu gives you its little quick text countdown, then a 
graphic loading progress screen. When the graphic screen would have come 
up, the display went blank and never displayed anything.

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David
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