On Tue, 8 Apr 2014 16:59:11 +0100 mick mbm@rlogin.net wrote:
On Tue, 08 Apr 2014 16:00:38 +0100 steve-ALUG@hst.me.uk allegedly wrote:
TBH, I'm not convinced it's a driver issue. Is there such a thing as a live cd for Mageia? If so, I'd be tempted to try it and see if the graphics card performs. I have a suspicion that it may be a corrupted configuration, and I'm not convinced that a new graphics driver will cure it. Maybe create a new user and log in to that user and see if their desktop works OK - if so, it's not the driver. That's just a hunch though - I've got nothing to support it.
That's a good point. It might also be worth trying a live cd from another distro entirely.
I've got lots stored from previous experiments for somebody else so I'll give the Mageia 4 Live DVD a go first, then some of the others like Fedora, Ubuntu, Lubuntu and Debian. Plus if I get really desperate, I can try the DVDs from a couple of recent issues of Linux User!
If nothing else , it will help me decide which distro to replace Mageia with ;-)
Having said that, I see that I also have a copy of Mageia 3 and that always worked, graphics wise, and as I now have a full backup - it finished while I was out swimming - I can happily overwrite everything safe in the knowledge that I can get it all back.
A notification has just overwritten the screen saying that the Live DVD of Mageia 4 has just finished. I'll let you know how I get on!