John Vasileff wrote: > On 10/25/06, Johannes Erdfelt <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> 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 >> > > I've had the same problem with FC5. My solution - ctrl-alt-f1 to > switch to a text console followed by alt-f7 to return to X clears it > up. The problem seems to happen on bootup, but weeks can pass without > a problem (assuming no reboot) after using the above technique. > > > John > At random, perhaps 1/20 times X starts, it makes a beautiful, melting screen. Alt-Ctrl-Backspace fixes it. -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list