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Re: X/kernel compatibiity?



On Wed, 2010-10-27 at 18:43 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote:
> On 2010-10-26 22:13 +0200, Ross Boylan wrote:
> 
> > My amd64 system is basically running stable, including X, but I'm
> > running linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64 and associated firmware for reasons
> > unrelated to X.
> >
> > After a recent upgrade, my monitor started behaving poorly (shrunk
> > vertically and flickering), and I'm wondering if this could be from an X
> > vs kernel mismatch.
> 
> Unlikely unless you use kernel mode setting, but you could blacklist the
> radeon module.  Have you tried older kernels (perhaps a 2.6.32-3 kernel
> from snapshot.debian.org) yet?
> 
> Sven
> 
That's an excellent idea, that I unfortunately didn't think of.  I sent the monitor off for repair.
Ross


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