I am using an AGP nVidia GeForce2 MX video card and am experiencing video
problems. The screen, even in text mode, shows lots of flickering, horizontal
lines.
The monitor is a 1600 x 1200 19" LCD; I can plug it into another machine and
the image is beautiful, so I don't think the problem is in the monitor.
I have two new machines which each have this card, and both show this
behaviour, so I don't think the problem is in the video card.
I suspect it is a driver problem. When I do lsmod, I see
af_packet
3c59x
rtc
unix
ide-disk
ide-probe-mod
ide-mod
ext2
no video card driver! My ATI radeon system at home shows
radeon
agpart
So could it be that I am using some generic driver and need to use the right
one?
I don't need top 3D performance, so I would prefer not have have to deal with
nVidia's closed-source drivers -- isn't there also an open-source driver from
XFee86-4? ("nv"?) And shouldn't the kernel load agpart to use the AGP slot? How
do I get it to do this stuff?
I have seen this with both testing and unstable.
Also, once I get proper video output, how do I configure a default window
manager and gnome desktop for all users?
Thanks!
