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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What rev KDE is it using? According to synaptic I am running > 5:47. > -- > Allen > Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 * <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > 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". > > _______________________________________________ > > EUGLUG mailing list > > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > > http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug > > > > > _______________________________________________ > EUGLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug > > _______________________________________________ > EUGLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
