On 7 Sep, this message from David D. Hagood echoed through cyberspace: > Joe Krahn wrote: >> Have other people noticed this? In composing a message in netscape, >> add an attachment, then right-click on the icon in the attachment pane. >> When I do this, the video output blanks briefly before the menu comes >> up. It even makes my monitor click as it has to re-sync. I find it >> strange that Netscape could do this. Maybe it is in part a server bug? >> >> I've seen this on RedHat Linux with different Netscape 4.x and with >> different video cards. Anyone have any ideas? > > I've had a similar problem with my Radeon 7500 - for some reason the > XFree driver for it does a divide by zero if I give it my monitor's real > scan rates, so I have to run a lower scan rate. I conjecture that the > scan rate is right on the edge of where the monitor will change its > internal settings, so once in a while the scan rate glitches over, and > the monitor resyncs. I'm not sure it is a purely Netscape issue, I think > it just happens when "lots of stuff" gets drawn to the card.
I've had this happen all the time with an OEM Radeon card, both in Linux and Windows. I've sinced returned the card; my interpretation is that the card was defective. I had tried two cards out of the same batch with identical results. FWIW, this was on a flat panel on the DVI out. Cheers Michel ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michel Lanners | " Read Philosophy. Study Art. 23, Rue Paul Henkes | Ask Questions. Make Mistakes. L-1710 Luxembourg | email [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cpu.lu/~mlan | Learn Always. " _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
