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computer locks up top half of screen lines and bottom half black

Asked by Erik Gamerl on 2010-07-28

I installed Ubuntu 10.4 on a Gateway desktop, 2.6 GHz, 512 MB RAM. The computer starts up fine. After working with any applications for awhile, the computer freezes up and on the screen the top half has lines and the bottom half is black. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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Language:: English Edit question

Status:: Solved

For:: Ubuntu xserver-xorg-video-intel Edit question

Assignee:: No assignee Edit question

Solved by:: marcobra (Marco Braida)

Solved:: 2010-08-01

Last query:: 2010-08-01

Last reply:: 2010-07-31

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said on 2010-07-28:

Please open a terminal and copy and paste the result of this terminal commands:

lspci | grep -i vga

uname -a

dpkg -l | grep -i linux-image

Thank you

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Erik Gamerl (ekatie) said on 2010-07-29:

Marco:
Thanks for your help.
erik@erik-desktop:~$ lspci | grep -i vga
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE Chipset Integrated Graphics Device (rev 03)
erik@erik-desktop:~$ uname -a
Linux erik-desktop 2.6.32-22-generic #36-Ubuntu SMP Thu Jun 3 22:02:19 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux
erik@erik-desktop:~$ dpkg -l | grep -i linux-image
ii linux-image-2.6.32-21-generic 2.6.32-21.32 Linux kernel image for version 2.6.32 on x86
ii linux-image-2.6.32-22-generic 2.6.32-22.36 Linux kernel image for version 2.6.32 on x86
ii linux-image-generic 2.6.32.22.23 Generic Linux kernel image
erik@erik-desktop:~$