Re: Flickering screen on a cinema display.

2007-05-01 Thread Wakko Warner
Charles Plessy wrote: Thanks for the hint. I added the following line in xorg.conf: ModeLine1920x1200 138 1920 2048 2256 2592 1200 1201 1204 1242 Howerver, I can not go lower than 138 (it freezes the system), and it is still too high to solve the problem. I also added:

Re: Flickering screen on a cinema display.

2007-05-01 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Tue, May 01, 2007 at 09:54:49PM -0400, Wakko Warner a écrit : Charles Plessy wrote: Thanks for the hint. I added the following line in xorg.conf: ModeLine1920x1200 138 1920 2048 2256 2592 1200 1201 1204 1242 Howerver, I can not go lower than 138 (it freezes the

Re: Flickering screen on a cinema display.

2007-04-30 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 08:46:55AM -0400, Wakko Warner a écrit : You can also use xvidtune to show you your current modeline that you would place in the monitor section of the xorg.conf. There is a warning, but if all you're going to do is have it show that information, it won't do any

Re: Flickering screen on a cinema display.

2007-04-28 Thread Jack Malmostoso
On Sat, 28 Apr 2007 07:50:05 +0200, Charles Plessy wrote: My problem is that I can not ask for a new graphical card just because I can not install linux on my work computer: working with linux is more comfortable in some cases Why don't you install linux in a virtual machine under OSX? With

Re: Flickering screen on a cinema display.

2007-04-28 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 07:07:37AM +, Jack Malmostoso a écrit : On Sat, 28 Apr 2007 07:50:05 +0200, Charles Plessy wrote: My problem is that I can not ask for a new graphical card just because I can not install linux on my work computer: working with linux is more comfortable in some

Re: Flickering screen on a cinema display.

2007-04-28 Thread Wakko Warner
Charles Plessy wrote: Le Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 10:22:21PM -0400, Wakko Warner a ?crit : Yes, I had this with a radeon 9200 on a PC and a 1600x1200 LCD connected via DVI (Did not occur with VGA). I had to tell xorg to ignore edid and I modified each mode line's dot clock to the absolute

Flickering screen on a cinema display.

2007-04-27 Thread Charles Plessy
Dear all, I have just installed Etch on a powermac7,3 with a cinema display, but very unfortunately, the screen flickers, making it difficult to work with the computer. I have found a hint on the fglrx page (http://www.stanchina.net/~flavio/debian/fglrx-installer.html): it seems necessary to

Re: Flickering screen on a cinema display.

2007-04-27 Thread Wakko Warner
Charles Plessy wrote: I have just installed Etch on a powermac7,3 with a cinema display, but very unfortunately, the screen flickers, making it difficult to work with the computer. I have found a hint on the fglrx page (http://www.stanchina.net/~flavio/debian/fglrx-installer.html): it seems

Re: Flickering screen on a cinema display.

2007-04-27 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 10:22:21PM -0400, Wakko Warner a écrit : Charles Plessy wrote: I have just installed Etch on a powermac7,3 with a cinema display, but very unfortunately, the screen flickers, making it difficult to work with the computer. I have found a hint on the fglrx page