On Tue, May 16, 2000 at 04:30:00PM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: > Ethan Benson wrote: > > > ever since i started using kernels with aty128 frambuffer support > > (2.2.14) i have had this really agrivating problem: whenever i switch > > VCs, almost without fail the screen goes black for about 2 full > > seconds then slowly fades back in. its as if it goes into powersave > > for a second and wakes up again. its driving me INSANE!! > > This sounds like something we fixed a long time ago in pm2fb: It used to > reprogram the RAMDAC on every switch, which caused some monitors to resync, > which I think is what you observe. > > Maybe aty128fb could be changed as well to only reprogram the RAMDAC if the > mode on the new VC is different from the old one. > is there any way to verify this ? the weird thing is sometimes it does not do it, but i cannot see any pattern to when it does or does not, most of the time it does. i do hear the monitor make a very slight hum... shimmering sound, about like it does when changing resolution or something, rather subtle about like a monitor resync ;-) so happen to have a patch ;-) thanks -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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