Hi,
first of all I hope this will get through to the ML, as I'm not
subscribed.
I just liked to test Mandrake 9.0 and had the same problems with a
blinking XFree 4.2.1 and my "ATI 3D Rage LT Pro AGP" card. Looking
for a solution, I found the thread "XFree 4.2.0 (repost)" on the
Mandrake site but I didn't find a solution straigforward. The
original message came from Oscar.
Actually the solution is to set the option "nocompositesync" in the
section for the graphics card.
Finally I found the solution with searching xfree86.org for the
terms ATI and problem ;-). As it seems, many Mach64 based cards
should need this option, so I can't understand, why it's not default
to them.
The funny thing is, that I got this blinking screen on my
worksystem, which is a SuSE 7.2/XFree 4.1.0 system, sometimes (maybe
once a month). But as it didn't seem to occur regularly, I thought
of failing hardware or something like that and it didn't happen too
often to have a pressure for investigation... Now I think, with this
option it won't reappear.
I hope, someone find this useful.
Have a nice day,
Carsten
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On Unix, I am limited only by my knowledge.
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