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Re: Flickering X Window System
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Hans von Lengerke)
Tue Nov 3 09:31:56 1998
Date: Tue, 3 Nov 1998 14:28:24 +0000
From: Hans von Lengerke <hans@peritas.com>
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On Tue, 3 Nov 1998, George Lenzer wrote:
> I don't know if anyone else has seen this. I have four Linux boxen. Three
> of them have Cirrus Logic GD5446 chipset video cards in them. There is one
> Diamond Stealth 64 Video 2000 card in the other. These machines have a
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> Has anyone
> elses ever seen this?
Yes, I have the same card and the screen does flicker. Actually it's more
like a wobble than a flickering. It looks a bit like when you degauss the
monitor.
> Any suggestions?
Unfortunately not.
> PS-It also seems to be tied in with the PS fan on each system. This only
> happens when I run Linux; during heavy processing (compiling) the PS fan
> seems to make a different sound! Wot the hell is this?
Uh, haven't noticed that.
Hans
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