Hello, I am currently trying to install linux on the machine I have just built (Dual Opteron 252's , Asus K8N-DRE/Sata, 2gb ECC ram), and whenever I try to boot into anything that uses Xorg, the screen keeps flashing to black for about 4 seconds then returns for a second. This only happens when a GUI is launched, not when in CLI. The only success I have had on this was with Debian, however when I tried to install PlayOnLinux, it broke. Therefore, I am still trying to reinstall.
so use debian.. it has the best hardware support out of the box (posted from a k8n running lenny 64 with some nvidia grafix thing...) I don't bother with dual cards simply because there is no need whatsoever with linux. The dual cards are most likely your problem.. honest.. try just one.
Check /var/log/Xorg.0.log or wherever it writes to. It is probably screaming a whole bunch of error codes back at you. Maybe even rename/remove your xorg.conf file and see how it performs with autodetection, you might have some settings in there that are breaking it.
PlayOnLinux is crap.. which is why their user forums have 3 users.. all devs.. and don't even rate a listing on distrowatch.. less users than videolinux managed.. even kororaa had 11 before it folded
Thanks for your replies. However, since POL didn't work, I tried to install wine 32bit on the Debian 64bit install I had, and libc6 broke when I tried to install libc6-i386 and dependencies. I was therefore forced to go back to Ubuntu 10.04, which seems to work fine right now. The only problem (offtopic for this post, and already asked elsewhere), was that the game I am trying to run in wine (Half-Life 2) runs, then after about 5 seconds pops up a console window in-game and says "Cannot write block to device".
