Great
So either my monitor or my graphics card is going. I doubt it's the monitor, as it's not yet a year old. I can display X at 1440x900 no problem, but the BIOs and whatever res the TTYs run at won't display, instead giving me a black screen (not even lit black, just black) with a green light indicating signal (instead of orange indicating sleep mode). If it really is the graphics card, I just hope it can hold out until the paycheck after next. I'll test with the All-In-Wonder in Frank tomorrow.
Casey and I built Frank last weekend or so with spare parts from his old machine as well as Din. I looked at what remained of Din in the trash room and thought it woud be wise to hold on to the Geforce FX 5200 just in case. I didn't. Maybe I should have. This is immensely poopy. I mean, yeah, I don't need to drop to the TTYs too often (or ever, if I'm not actively breaking something), and the BIOs screen isn't useful to me (I can manipulate GRUB and get to Windows without actually seeing what I'm doing); but it sure would be nice to see everything.
I did a quick test with Quake 3, still runs at ~400fps. Though that was for only like half a minute or so.
I dunno if it's just me being weird or anything, but I think I've been noticing performance decreases under Windows as a hole and when booting and logging in under Linux. Maybe it's just my startup apps causing the slow login, but... :???: I'm probably crazy.
I wonder if I can still get a decent AGP video card. Or maybe I should hope that this thing lasts until I have enough spare money to buy a whole new machine (a modest one, of course). A year from now, if I'm lucky.
The card is at 60C. Normally it idles at 66C. It might be because of the AC, though.
I honestly haven't done anything that could cause this, so I bet it's normal hardware failure or something. Initially I was restarting X to clear up some processes and it dropped me to a black screen. I could get to the TTYs fine, so I checked my xorg.conf to see if anything was off. Nothing. Restart X again, nothing. Reboot the computer, nothing all around. Take the card out, inspect it, see nothing wrong, put it back in, boot, no BIOS screen, booting sounds, login screen. Kind of confused here.