On Friday 27 June 2003 04:45, Andy Goth wrote: > On Thursday, June 26, 2003 1:50 am, ved wrote: > > hello, recently my xfree started to behave strangely, > > Did this happen in response to any configuration changes? If not, it's > likely to be a hardware problem. Then again, maybe it's a bug that's > triggered by the fact that you have one too many files in /tmp ... but I > doubt it. > > See if you can borrow another monitor. If things clear up, your problem is > solved, assuming you have sufficient bling in your wallet to get a > replacement. :^)
Tomorrow evening i'll problably have another monitor to test it out so i'll maybe post some more info then. I didn't make any changes to cfg files, the problem just started out spontaneously. The /tmp files i don't think is the problem because i already rebooted and my system erases the tmp dir on boot. > > > it randomly blacks > > out the monitor, to get it back on i have to chenge to the console with > > ctrl+alt+Fx, turn off the monitor and then turn it back on and finally > > get back to X with alt+f7. I tried lots of diferent configurations of > > modelines and resolutions but they all eventually black out the monitor. > > In another (maybe related) problem, the right margin of my monitor gets > > progressivly "shrinken" i mean the contents on the aproximately 1cm of > > the right monitor border gets really narrow and it is when it's really > > narrow that the screen backs out. > > It could be that your monitor's power supply is going out. I've had this > happen to me twice before. > > The first time was with a 13" CRT circa 1993. It first exhibited strange > behavior not entirely unlike what you describe, and then it got flaky to > the point of unusability. > > The second time was with a 17" CRT circa 1999. It worked mostly alright, > but every hour or so a couple of scanlines would vertically jitter, as if > it had lost power for a millisecond. One day, the horizontal suddenly and > completely failed, reducing the image to a very bright vertical line in the > center of my screen. A quarter-second later, the vertical went too, and > within no time at all I lost the dot as well. It now awaits proper > disposal... yes, i agree, it seems to be the monitor that is getting damaged.. > > > i am thinking that either my monitor is badly setup or the > > monitor is somehow damaged and creates this right side distortion and > > eventually blacking out. If i stop X and restart it, it stays fine but > > progressivaly the right monitor side starts do shrink until it blacks out > > again. I find this very odd and can't seem to find a cause. > > If a change of monitor doesn't help, try using either VGA 640x480x4bpp or > VGA 320x200x8bpp, whichever is more usable. See if you get the same > trouble. But I seriously doubt you'll get this far. If you do, though, try > a different graphics card. I had an nVidia die on me some time ago, and > while I never lost the horizontal or vertical, the image turned to mud. i'll try this after i try with another monitor and yes, my card is a nvidia tnt2 m64 16mb > > > My monitor is a rather rare Likom L5034LD and it's timmings according to > > the manual are: > > H: 30 ~ 69 > > V: 50 ~ 104 > > It's a CRT, correct? If you said it was a LCD I'd be stumped. Tell me > when it was made. Is it multisync? It sounds like it, or else changing > resolutions (flipping between text and graphics) might not resuscitate it > (bring it back to life). But I'm no expert. Yes it is CRT but i'm not sure what multysinc is and i don't have the manual, all i have is a file sent to me by the maker with some specs. > > > My preffered resolution for X is 1024x768 but i also use 640x480 when i > > play quake. > > Do you get the same problem in either resolution? Also, does this ever > occur with text mode? By the way, what text mode do you use? The default > is nearly universally 80x25 character cells with 9x16 dot boxes, so the > effective resolution is 720x400. (I use 132x60 with 8x8, giving me > 1056x480.) yes i had the same problem at 1024 and 640 but on text mode i still didn't get this behavior, i just today changed the textmode resolution from the default 80x25 to 100x37 with 9 pixel fonts i believe, it was one of the settings that came with svgatextmode that got an output that i liked. i'll see if it does the same thing now that i'm using it, but so far it's going well, no blackouts. > > > Thanks in advance and sorry for any bad english. > > Your English is admirable. I see and hear worse in my own household. heh, thanks, i know a little but not beeing a native i always excuse any possible mistakes. I'm from Madeira Island in Portugal btw =) Thanks for your response, i'll give some more feedback tomorrow when i test on another monitor. _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
