ATI, F8 and momentary black screen

[Anne Wilson]

On Saturday 07 June 2008 11:46:36 Tom Horsley wrote:
> On Sat, 07 Jun 2008 00:23:30 -0600
>
> Frank Cox <theatre at sasktel.net> wrote:
> > What could be the problem here?
>
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2859
>
> There is a long tradition of flickering and blanking
> of displays on radeons, now you can join the brotherhood :-).
>
> In my case, it actually turned out to be at least
> partially the monitor's fault. Using a different DVI
> input on the monitor made it go away:
>
> http://home.att.net/~Tom.Horsley/easy-linux.html

Not only radeons.  My CentOS box has an nvidia, and is fine in analogue mode, 
but in dvi mode it blinks exactly as described.

Anne
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