Aldo F. Saavedra wrote:
> Hi Mark,
> 
> The Live CD that came with SL 4.3 has never worked with this pc. It 
> hangs just after it shows you the options for booting. I should try that 
> live alpha CD SL 5 that mentioned before. The only way we managed to 
> install SL 4.3 was setting all sorts of options at boot.
> 
> But I do not think it is a hardware problem because while it is booting 
> it is showing the graphics gui.. the cursor, the spinning dots and a 
> description of each step.. it is only when it is finished booting and it 
> is about to show the login screen that I get the flicker.
> 
> Cheers,
> Aldo
> 
> 
> 
> Mark Whidby wrote:
>> Aldo F. Saavedra wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I have an intel core Duo machine to which I installed SLC 4.3 . It 
>>> has worked fine (except for the IRQ 11 message that appears once in a 
>>> while).  The only problem I seem to have is that once in a while it 
>>> will boot to blank blueish flickering screen...
>>>
>>> It did it a number of times but sometimes the login screen would 
>>> appear allowing you to log in and work with no problem. Sometimes 
>>> when you logged out the screen would turn back to the flickering screen.
>>>
>>> The input still working when the screen flickering because I log in 
>>> and then I get a red and black flickering screen. I'm not sure what 
>>> the problem is.
>>>
>>> The graphics card is built in the motherboard so is vesa
>>> an appropriate driver? Does Intel have its own drivers?
>>> Now the screen only flickers all the time with no chance on the 
>>> occasional session. Any ideas are welcome.
>>
>> Could it be a hardware problem?
>> Have you tried booting from a live CD e.g. Knoppix or the SL live CD?
>>
> 

Can you send us the output of

   /sbin/lspci

Just because the video is built in doesn't mean it is intel.
VESA is usually the fallback default choice.  So there might be a better 
video driver for your video.

Troy
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