Re: Monitor flashes with ATI 9200 AGP
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"
help?
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