>-----Original Message----- >From: Craig Falconer [mailto:cfalco...@totalteam.co.nz] >Sent: Friday, 7 August 2009 6:10 p.m. > >My suspicion is maybe your video ram is going slowly sour, or perhaps >the display is dying. > There is nothing wrong with the display when booted to windows xp, only issues are under Ubuntu.
>Does the problem exist if you use an external monitor? I think this >needs a silly wee VGA dongle - hope you still have it! > Finally found dongle - the problem is exhibited on external monitor as well. > >Easy answer is you give me your toughbook > Nice try :) - even though it's a bit gutless it just keeps on going, and it has been dropped from table height a number of times (thanks to small humans and dogs and dangling cables). Besides which it belongs to my employer, not me... I was trying various things today to see if it was overheating related (running it at 100%cpu for a couple of hours) and I noticed the problem appears if the screen gets blanked from inactivity - when reactivated the icons seem to have problems. I tried to turn off blanking of display in power management but it still blanks after some time - but that is not a solution anyway, as the screen being able to be blanked is good on a notebook. Any other suggestions welcome. Regards, Bryce Stenberg. DISCLAIMER: If you have received this email in error, please notify us immediately by reply email, facsimile or collect telephone call to +64 3 9641200 and destroy the original. Please refer to full DISCLAIMER at http://www.hrnz.co.nz/eDisclaimer.htm
