Re: Monitor flashes with ATI 9200 AGP
Michel D?nzer wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 22:33 -0400, Wakko Warner wrote:
> > I recently bought a flat panel monitor (Samsung SyncMaster 204T). My card
> > has a DVI, VGA, and S-Video output. Res is 1600x1200. Vanilla kernel
> > 2.6.12 with intel-agp and radeon drivers loaded. Systemboard is a
> > Supermicro X5DA8 with 2 xeon 2.6ghz processors. Monitor is attached via DVI
> > cable. I have not tested any other cables or monitors since those flat
> > panel things are just too expensive =) My previous monitor was a Princeton
> > EO900 (ran at 1400x1050 and had no problems). The system has been turned
> > off since the flat panel was installed as the card didn't activate the
> > digital interface until it was reset.
> >
> > When doing some operations (Moving very large windows, 3d graphics like
> > Quake 3 or xscreensaver-gl's gears with -planetary -fps -delay 0) causes the
> > monitor to blank out. Quake3 mostly causes the screen to blank and never
> > show anything. Running gears causes it to blank as well, however the
> > display comes back, but goes out again until it's closed.
> >
> > This was with XFree86 4.3 (One of the versions before Sarge stabilized). I
> > decided to install Xorg from SID instead. The blanking wasn't as bad but was
> > still bad enough that gears was unviewable. Quake3 still was blank. I
> > noticed there was a newer Xorg in /debian/pool/main/x/xorg-x11 so I
> > installed it (version 6.8.99.901.dfsg.1-1) which is doing much better and
> > Quake3 is actually usable, but the screen does still blank occasionally.
>
> Does
>
> Option "DisplayPriority" "HIGH"
No, it does not and it makes 3d a little slower (running gears with this
gives me 295fps where as w/o the option I get about 340)
I did find out that it only does this using the digital connection. I did
not try analog on the DVI connector.
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