Re: X nuking my monitor
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On Sat, May 24, 2003 at 12:20:58AM +0200, Nicos Gollan wrote:
> I've got a little problem with X11. I'm running the 4.2.1-6 packages
> and I've had rather bad behaviour with an ATI Radeon 8500 running
> DRI drivers and a 9500 running the ATI drivers. The problem is that
> on starting X, the display goes to powersave and then degausses when
> the server is coming up. This - to be blunt - sucks big time and
> can't be good for my monitor. Any ideas on how to prevent this?
It's not like it's toggling the power 30 or 40 times really fast, like
in BoFH stories on ntk.net. We're talking once when the server kicks
on. For whatever reason, every recent ATI card I've used does this in
OS's other than Windows.
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