Charlie Gibbs composed on 2019-09-26 21:16 (UTC-0700): > I've set up a new machine with Buster (my first foray, my other > machines are still running Stretch). It frequently locks up so > hard that I have to hit the reset button. It seems to happen when > scrolling a Notepad window in Windows XP, which is running under > VirtualBox 6.0.10 r132072.
> The machine has an ASUS P5L-MX motherboard and I'm using its onboard > VGA adapter. > I suspect a video driver issue. Can anyone point me to some info > on configuring and troubleshooting such things? Up until now any > machine I've installed Linux on has Just Worked. I've heard of > various gotchas but this is the first time I've been bitten. None of your command output reports the DDX in use. inxi -Gxx would do that. It might not matter. I have 3 Dells that use the same chipset. They give me no such trouble now, but they did in the past, victims of the tail end of the bad caps plague[1]. Have you inspected that motherboard and power supply for bad caps? [2] Something else to try is memtest86(+), and reseating its RAM sticks. Its graphics share system RAM. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague [2] http://badcaps.net/ -- Evolution as taught in public schools is religion, not science. Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/
