Weird Video Problems
Hi Again, Just when I thought I had all my video problems fixed, another shows up. Some background. I have a compaq presario R3000 amd 64 laptop. I have successfully configured the nvidia drivers from SuSE and you for 1280x800. The weirdness occurs after screensaver (blank setting) wakes up. If the backlight of the screen is turned off by the screensaver then the video returns garbled. If I log out then back in again the video is proper. This behaviour has me completely stumped. Please, has anyone any ideas? Thanks in advance, Phil
On Sunday 29 May 2005 08:32 pm, Phil Savoie wrote:
Hi Again,
Just when I thought I had all my video problems fixed, another shows up. Some background. I have a compaq presario R3000 amd 64 laptop. I have successfully configured the nvidia drivers from SuSE and you for 1280x800. The weirdness occurs after screensaver (blank setting) wakes up. If the backlight of the screen is turned off by the screensaver then the video returns garbled.
If I log out then back in again the video is proper. This behaviour has me completely stumped. Please, has anyone any ideas?
Thanks in advance,
Phil
I'm having the same problem (occasionally) on a Viewsonic monitor at 1600x1200. Sometimes after a dpms blanking, the screen will return garbled. My workaround is to ctl-alt-F2 (to go to a real console screen, and then alt-F7 back into KDE. Only takes a few seconds. I think it is a bug in the X code.
On Sunday 29 May 2005 5:32 pm, Phil Savoie wrote:
Hi Again,
Just when I thought I had all my video problems fixed, another shows up. Some background. I have a compaq presario R3000 amd 64 laptop. I have successfully configured the nvidia drivers from SuSE and you for 1280x800. The weirdness occurs after screensaver (blank setting) wakes up. If the backlight of the screen is turned off by the screensaver then the video returns garbled.
If I log out then back in again the video is proper. This behaviour has me completely stumped. Please, has anyone any ideas?
Thanks in advance,
Phil
I had a similar issue with my HP laptop and solved it with the info here http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/snapshots/FC3-r3004/ by following the instructions for avoiding a screwed up text mode display with the nv driver, Steps were; 1) boot vga=vesa 2) before x starts, press the fn f4 keys Plus use sax to setup 1280x800@60 24 bit depth as a valid mode and make it the default. Doing the above gets the laptop functional with the nv driver that SuSE ships. Switching back from x to console works fine, no screwed up display. The longer-term solution is to dump the SuSE driver and use the driver from nVidia, that one doesn't have the problem. Scott -- POPFile, the OpenSource EMail Classifier http://popfile.sourceforge.net/ Linux 2.6.11.4-20a-default x86_64
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