Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1046 mails)

[Robert Cunningham <rcunning@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 03/16/2011 01:59 PM, James Knott wrote:
> David C. Rankin wrote:
> > On 03/14/2011 10:35 AM, James Knott wrote:
> > > I've just installed 11.4 on an old Compaq computer. One problem that 
> > > was
> > > immediately obvious is the monitor goes black every several seconds. 
> > > Also,
> > > where the heck are the video settings? I can't seem to find them 
> > > anywhere!
> > > This computer previously ran 11.3 without issue.
> >
> > https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=678264
> Different problem.  It doesn't pixelate.  It goes black and then 
> returns to normal.
Not to hijack the thread
but I am currently running 11.2-32bit with a dual monitor on a Radeon  
x1650 card, one off the VGA-0 , I have the same
kernel (2.6.37.41) from the kernel head repo, and xorg 7.6-4.  from the 
X11 repo, using radeon driver and my machine works just fine. But if I 
run the 11.4 live cd and configure my video the same with xrandr, I get 
the VGA-0 screen blanking every minute or so. So I hope this helps them 
find the problem because it doesn't seem to be in the kernel or the X11 
but somewhere in between.
     I wish they would get this hashed out quickly.  I would like to go 
to a dual screen at home and upgrade to 11.4 but it looks like I am 
going to have to wait.


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In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice; In practice, 
there is

Robert Cunningham
Sr. Physics Laboratory Coordinator /RSO
 

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