Sometime my screen goes black for a split second...

ganninu · 11-08-2003, 10:52 AM

...and then turns normal.... This has happened to me only in Debian (Debian 3.0 r1 stable) boxes... Is it something i should worry abt?

scarr3d · 11-08-2003, 11:58 PM

i have the same "problem." what kind of video card are you using?

mine is a nVidia TNT2.

ganninu · 11-09-2003, 05:03 AM

mine has a SiS chipset... I'm using the Vesa driver though - as I always do with other Linux distros which never gave me this effect...

pe2338 · 11-10-2003, 03:52 AM

I think this is a XFree86 issue - I have that problem, too on a debian woody machine.

I have a GeForce4 MX/440 and I have posted on another thread about this...

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=111976

I had debian testing at some time in the past, but I never had this problem on sarge. I remember having it back in april (again on woody) when I had a GeForce2 mx/400, so I guess is a X bug.

Maybe an update from debian (or debian security) might solve the problem.
I think this is the case, as I haven't made any updates on my present woody (installed fully from CD).

Are your woody's updated?

ganninu · 11-10-2003, 03:56 AM

yep i update my woody as if it were my child giving him the latest protection against flue/viruses

pe2338 · 11-10-2003, 06:03 AM

It looks like the updates didn't do the job, so I guess the prob can be solved through pinning for you lucky ones that have an active inet connection...

ganninu · 11-10-2003, 06:09 AM

pinning or backporting?

pe2338 · 11-10-2003, 06:16 AM

I guess a backport would be a better option....

PS:I want a link to the X deb file too....

pe2338 · 11-10-2003, 06:18 AM

if it solved your/our problem

ganninu · 11-10-2003, 06:35 AM

heehe as soon as i find some relevant package, i will post the link. If you have any suggestion of "what" to search that would be much faster...

pe2338 · 11-10-2003, 06:43 AM

xserver-xfree86 4.2.1

or something alike

anyway, the stable X version is ancient -> xserver-common-v3 3.3.6-44

ganninu · 11-10-2003, 06:50 AM

hmm ok i'll check out which version i have...

pe2338 · 12-08-2003, 03:16 AM

sometimes I just forget what I did a few hours ago!!!

Stupid me!

When I bought my new Graphics card, I icreased the AGP aperture size from 64MB (default) to 128MB. Apparently this was the reason for the strange behaviour!!!

How I figured it out?
Exchanged the video card with my room mate for somed double testing (the AGP port/Motherboard or the graphics card is broken).

I saw that the problem persisted... so the idea came to me : AGP settings/AGP broken. It appears that (thank God) it was the first!

I will post if something changes (I hope not!).

ganninu · 12-08-2003, 04:00 AM

I upgraded to the latest Xfree86 and this bug no longer persists...

pe2338 · 12-08-2003, 04:52 AM

maybe is a combinated problem (XFree86 for woody and my AGP config = big problem)

Just for the record: How much is your AGP aperture size?