Greetings. First, the hardware particulars; Athlon 1400, 512mb, nVidia TNT2 16mb, ViewSonic A90f, Redhat 7.2, XFree86 4.x (whatever shipped with Redhat 7.2).
Ok. The A90f is brand new and the second one I've tried in the last four weeks. First monitor: after a few days, whenever the monitor went into power-saving mode it exhibited an audible "whine" from the rear area. This while running Windows 2000. I was ready to install Redhat anyhow, so did that. Same problem. Also, the "whine" was louder during OS boot while Linux was in text mode (640x400). The "whine" would disappear after X started but resume whenever the monitor entered standby, off, etc. Contacted ViewSonic; they said "bad monitor". Returned it last week to Office Depot (nice people) and received another A90f. Started it up, no whine. Cool. Two days later I was working along and POP! from the monitor, screen goes blank for a few seconds, then image returns fine. Uh oh. Few days gone by and monitor working fine. Shut system down for two days or so, rebooted and monitor exhibited very loud whine during Linux boot that disappeared after X started. Sigh. WTF, O? The same hardware drove a ViewSonic 17PS for many months and that 17PS is six years old. I am *not* overclocking anything, don't fiddle with xvidtune or anything like that. And, I've tried the native nVidia drivers too. Both monitor and computer are attached to an APC UPS; Backups 400. I suppose I might have another lemon, and if so intend to purchase a PF790 instead. However, if something else is going on I'll just have more trouble so I'm turning to you folks. Help is much appreciated. Cheers, -- ------------------------------------------ David E. Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lisa.sourceforge.net "Those who expect to reap the blessings of liberty must undergo the fatigues of supporting it." -- Thomas Paine "But all the world understands my language." -- Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
