Bryce Stenberg wrote, On 11/08/09 12:54:
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From: Craig Falconer [mailto:[email protected]]
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.
Well that says its not display hardware (the physical screen)
Since its not happening in windows it must be software and software config.
It sounds like its powersaving which is causing the problem.
Is there a difference in the video between screen blanking and suspend?
What graphics card/chipset is in the machine?
A final test - can you get knoppix or puppy linux onto a pen drive and
boot that? Will have a completely different X config.
Easy answer is you give me your toughbook
Nice try :)
It'd look awesome in the landy :))) (they are waterproof right?)
eee PCs are damn nice - specially the 10" version which doesn't have
quite such a small keyboard as the 7" and 9".
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.
Biff this into /etc/rc.local - it will disable console blanking completely.
setterm -powersave off
setterm -blank 0 -powerdown 0
You'll also need to do the same for X somehow. This is really only a
patch answer.
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Craig Falconer
