ATI, F8 and momentary black screen

2008-06-07 Thread Frank Cox
I just installed an ATI card in a computer that's running F8. The monitor that it's attached to is an older LCD monitor (Benq FP547) with a native resolution of 1024x768. When I booted it up after installing the proprietary driver from Livna, the login screen and the user's desktop looked

Re: ATI, F8 and momentary black screen

2008-06-07 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sat, 07 Jun 2008 00:23:30 -0600 Frank Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What could be the problem here? https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2859 There is a long tradition of flickering and blanking of displays on radeons, now you can join the brotherhood :-). In my case, it actually

Re: ATI, F8 and momentary black screen

2008-06-07 Thread Frank Cox
On Sat, 07 Jun 2008 18:13:50 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Using a different DVI input on the monitor made it go away: Not only radeons. My CentOS box has an nvidia, and is fine in analogue mode, but in dvi mode it blinks exactly as described. I'm not sure that this is the

Re: ATI, F8 and momentary black screen

2008-06-07 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sat, 7 Jun 2008 18:13:50 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not only radeons. My CentOS box has an nvidia, and is fine in analogue mode, but in dvi mode it blinks exactly as described. Yea, when I plugged in an nvidia replacement and found the same flickering was when I tried the