Re: LCD screen flickering

[Johan Marklund <yosh@yosh.se>]

Ji ZhengYu skrev:
> On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 6:47 AM, Andrea Ferraresi
> <andrea.ferraresi@gmail.com> wrote:
>   
> >  On Wed, 2008-03-05 at 13:54 +0800, Ji ZhengYu wrote:
> >  > Hi, everyone
> >  > I used a toshiba laptop on debian/stable, and everything was OK!
> >  >
> >  > Now I am using debian/sid for some reasons, but some character
> >  > in some fields on LCD screen is flickering, after a long time running
> >  > debian, it will flicker more worse sometimes. I can't take a screenshot
> >  > because it always looks good from the picture what I get  :-(
> >  >
> >  > kernel    2.6.24+13: i386
> >  > xorg      1:7.3+10
> >  > graphic driver i810 ( for my intel graphic 855GM card onboard)
> >  >
> >  > Any suggestion?
> >  >
> >
> >  I'm currently experiencing the same problem with the same graphic card,
> >  but only after hibernation. After a reboot my screen works fine.
> >
> >  --
> >  |_|O|_|  Andrea Ferraresi <andrea.ferraresi@gmail.com>
> >  |_|_|O|  KeyFP= CFE7 223E EB7A E729 9675  BA93 5152 C043 3817 D93A
> >     
>
> Well, after a reboot, it looks fine. But after some times, the same
> problem come up again.
> Any suggestion?
>
> Regards,
>
> G
>
>
>   

Hi!

Are you shure that the problem isn't hardware related? I've had several 
laptops with semi-broken inverter boards in the screen. It caused the 
monitor to flicker and sometimes go dark until next reboot.

regards
--
Yosh