Note that SL 4.4 has a newer X and also a newer kernel.  What version 
kernel and X do you have ?

-Connie Sieh

On Mon, 29 Jan 2007, Troy Dawson wrote:

> 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
>