On Thu, Apr 29, 2004 at 04:44:08PM -0700, Tyler Riddle wrote: > I switched monitors and the behavior changed a little. > Instead of oscilating between off and on states it now > displays about 5 seconds of strange lines, I believe > the sync rates to be pretty wild. Then the new monitor > will turn off. I also tried switching cards after > changing monitors, both cards had the same behavior. > > The current card is a brand new nVidia Geforce 3d card > using the nVidia drivers. Finaly, the same behavior > was observed under freebsd previously on this > computer, with the Rage video card and the original > monitor. Thanks for following up. Do these monitors claim to support DPMS? As I understand it, DPMS signaling is done very crudely, by turning off the horizontal and vertical sync signals in various combinations to indicate "standby", "sleep", and "off". -- G. Branden Robinson | You could wire up a dead rat to a Debian GNU/Linux | DIMM socket and the PC BIOS memory branden@debian.org | test would pass it just fine. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Ethan Benson
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