On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 3:55 AM, Felix Miata <[email protected]> wrote: > I have an rv516 card: > http://fm.no-ip.com/Tmp/Linux/hwinfo-gfx-rv516-big41.txt > > In as many different machines and with as many different Linux distros and > versions I've tried this with (always FOSS X drivers, and IIRC, all with KMS > kernels), I don't think there are any that don't ever exhibit $SUBJECT. I do > a lot of switching between KDE3 & 4 and the vttys, so this is annoying, and > makes me wonder if it could be damaging the CRT for this to happen. > > The "snapping" manifests different to different extents. Sometimes the screen > just goes black then redraws. Other times in addition, the going black is > accompanied by an audible snap noise. A mode switch (aka to or from KDE and a > vtty) isn't required, but can be induced by running the attached script that > includes xrdb and xrandr commands. > > Last booted was openSUSE 13.1, server 1.14.3.901, radeon driver > xf86-video-ati-7.2.0-2.4.1, libdrm_radeon1-2.4.46-3.2.2 from which I got no > snapping sound. > > Does this sound like a software issue, or hardware? If software, kernel, or X > driver?
It's pretty common with CRTs and is a normal part of the mode switch process: http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/2734-3-clicking-sound Alex _______________________________________________ xorg-driver-ati mailing list [email protected] http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-driver-ati
