On Wed, Oct 25, 2006, Tom Horsley <tomhorsley@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 25 Oct 2006 12:53:58 -0400 > Neal Becker <ndbecker2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Neal Becker wrote: > > > > > After today's fc5 update, I now have a horrible random flickering on my > > > display. I only hope fc6 (when I can finally get bt to download it) will > > > repair it. > > > > Went away after reboot. This is probably just a different manifestation of > > an (apparent) race condition with starting the X server. > > Not sure what you mean by flickering, but with my radeon I have noticed > (much more often on FC6 test than FC5) that it sometimes acts like the dpms > monitor shut-down stuff gets triggered randomly every few seconds. It will > go through a really bad time, then it will stop happening for a while. Video > just keeps turning on and off. If I reboot enough, I'll eventually get > to a state where it no longer does it (until the next time I reboot :-). What monitor do you use? I had a similar problem with my Dell 2000FP. Turned out to be a timing problem between the ATI card and the monitor. I was able to hack my X driver to use a lower timing and almost completely solve the problem (every blue moon it would flicker once). You can also check the archives for past discussions. JE -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list