riffraff@rockymusic.org writes:
> What happens is that the screen keeps blanking over and over
> even when I'm doing things. Sometimes it will blank while I'm in the
> middle of typing something, and will unblank on the next letter typed.
> Sometimes it can sit there for a while before blanking. It's fairly
> random. Using 'setterm -blank 0' before running the startx script
> does not affect this behavior at all. I also don't see this problem
> under text mode, just X Windows. This problem seems to have crept it
> somewhere in the 2.2.0-pre? series. I was using a 2.1.132 kernel with
> no problems, then when I upgraded to 2.2.0-pre4 was when I first
> noticed this. The problem is still present in 2.2.0-pre5. Was there
> something introduced that requires userspace tweaking to correct this,
> or is this actually some sort of kernel bug? If anyone has any
> answers about this, please CC a copy of the e-mail to me as well as
> the list. Thank you!
Exactly this has happened to me with the pre-5 release !
I've had no problems with pre-4 and earlier.
I was begining to think that this was some kind of hardware problem...
Btw, I'm using an S3 card (Diamond Stealth 64 video 2001).
/Håkan
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