[Techtalk] monitor cycling on & off
James Allen
jallen at starnetok.net
Sat Jun 26 21:23:01 EST 2004
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> gab wrote:
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>>>I have an NEC MultiSync P750. It's still my favorite monitor even
>>>though it's almost a decade old. Recently, it's starting cycling on &
>>>off instead of going into sleep mode. This is going to kill the monitor
>>>in short order, I'm sure. I had not installed/upgraded anything when it
>>>started doing this. There's nothing freaky in my logs. I have *no
>>>idea* where to even start with troubleshooting & I'm not having any luck
>>>with google. RH9, Gnome Desktop, Radeon AllinOneder 9700.
>>>
>>>Thanks for any tips!
>>>
>>>
Carla Schroder wrote:
>One other thing I just remembered- on every Red Hat PC I've ever used, from
>version 8.0 on, whatever mechanism RH uses to turn monitors on and off is
>really loud and clunky. Like during installation, and during startup and
>reboots. On all my other PCs, the screen will flicker on and off at certain
>times, during startups etc., but not with loud alarming clunks and clicks. So
>I would try a different PC with a different OS.
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I had the same problem with Red Hat 9.0. It was the distro and not the
monitor. Red Hat is notoriously buggy.
James Allen
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