Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2113 mails)

[John Andersen <jsamyth@xxxxxxxxx>]

Istvan Gabor wrote:
> Hello:
>
> I have changed my CRT monitor to TFT flat panel.
> The monitor was recognized and set up by openSUSE 10.3 
> automatically, the resolution is set to 1400x1050, color depth 
> is 24. I have an ATI Radeon VE/7000 videocard. 
> Interestingely the monitor is blinking frequently, ie. turns 
> completely to black just for a second. This occurs eg. when I 
> change the with of name, ext or other colums or change 
> directory in krusader, save file or change tab in Opera browser. 
> The screen comes back to normal after this transient one 
> second blank state. I never experineced similar with my CRT 
> monitor, though its resolution was only 1024x768.
>
> Any explanation, suggestion to solve this or trace the cause?
> TIA, 
> suseuser04

I've seen this when the monitor is not running at its native
resolution, and when switching resolutions.  The monitor is
(sometimes) trying to protect itself from out of spec feeds.

Are you using the latest ATI driver, or the standard one that
opensuse ships.

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