[Techtalk] monitor cycling on & off

[James Allen]

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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!
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>>>

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