[Eug-lug] Linux hates big monitor

[Bob Crandell]

The last time I saw this happen the video card had 2 blown caps.  That
blinking got real irritating before I found it.

On Fri, 2007-07-13 at 02:32 -0700, Jared Ubelhor wrote:
> OK, when I said that everything was working, I seem to have spoken too
> soon. Every so often the screen flashes blue (no signal). The longer
> it runs, the more it flashes. This continues to the point I cannot
> see. Even pressing CTRL + ALT + F1 to go back to the shell doesn't
> stop the flashing. WTF? 
> 
> I've had OpenSuse 10.2 installed on the computer and with this monitor
> before and I didn't have this issue.
> 
> It's not a problem with the monitor. I put in a Mandriva live CD and
> it works fine (except for the part where it wont display at
> 1680x1050!) 
> 
> ARGH! That XP Pro disk is looking really good right now!
> 
> On 7/12/07, Allen Brown <abrown at peak.org> wrote:
>         What rev KDE is it using?  According to synaptic I am running
>         5:47.
>         --
>         Allen
>         Brown  abrown at peak.org  http://brown.armoredpenguin.com/~abrown/
>            Who is General Failure and why is he reading my hard disk?
>         
>         Jared Ubelhor wrote:
>         > Installed Suse 10.2 this morning.Works perfect thus far on
>         both KDE and
>         > GNOME. We'll see what happens when I install the nvidia
>         drivers. 
>         >
>         > On 7/12/07, *Allen Brown * <abrown at peak.org
>         <mailto:abrown at peak.org>> wrote:
>         >
>         >     Jim K wrote:
>         >      > Just a guess, it may not be a function of kde. Do you
>         also use 
>         >     kdm the
>         >      > kde display manager or gnome
>         >      > display manager. Check for a file such as
>         >      > $KDEDIR/share/config/kdm/.kdmrc.
>         >
>         >     I use gdm with KDE.  I had to change the config of KDE
>         to 
>         >     fix the resolution.  So it seems unlikely to have
>         anything to
>         >     do with kdm.
>         >
>         >      > Also you might check the init scripts
>         >      > to see what program actuall y configures the display
>         for kde on your 
>         >      > system.
>         >
>         >     How do I do that?
>         >
>         >      > If you are using kde and kdm try installing just
>         gnome and see
>         >      > if it works, if so then install kde , but don't
>         change the display 
>         >      > manager.  These may not alter the characteristics of
>         the display, so
>         >      > this is just a guess.
>         >      > Jim K
>         >
>         >     I've always had gnome, xfce4, and kde
>         installed.  Logging in under 
>         >     gnome or under xfce4 I get the correct screen
>         resolution.  It's
>         >     remotely possible the fix that I did to KDE also fixed
>         gnome.  It
>         >     was awhile back when I did it, plus it involved quite a
>         bit of 
>         >     thrashing about.  But most likely the only culprit is
>         KDE.
>         >     --
>         >     Allen Brown  abrown at peak.org <mailto:abrown at peak.org>
>         >     http://brown.armoredpenguin.com/~abrown/
>         >        The trouble with our times is that the
>         >        future is not what it used to be. ---Paul Valery 
>         >
>         >      > Allen Brown wrote:
>         >      >> I would like to know if this is unique to one or
>         more distributions
>         >      >> such as Ubuntu.  Or if it is simply a function of
>         one or more
>         >      >> desktops such as KDE.  I wouldn't be surprised if it
>         is the latter.
>         >      >> If so, changing distributions won't help.
>         >      >>
>         >      >> So before changing your install, try switching to
>         xfce4.  You can 
>         >      >> get it by "apt-get install xubuntu-desktop".
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