On Tuesday 12 October 2004 20:36, adam@thebowery.co.uk wrote:
What happens if you connect the screen via an analog cable? just for testing purposes mind ;) The Nvidia gfx cards quite often seem to be a real bugger when it comes to power management and detecting monitor capabilites via DDC. Also are you using the nv or nvidia driver with XFree86? (try using the other one to see if the problem goes away?) Oh, and are you running the system dual head? (with 2 screens) as this can aggravate problems.
Haven't tried analog, though the previous setup (Matrox G400 with two 17" Diamondtrons) had the same problem. Which is why I suspect the motherboard as much as the GFX card.
With the big LCD one monitor is quite enough. I haven't been able to use the downloaded nVidia driver; as soon as I enable 3D the screen flickers like buggery, but turning it off reverts to the standard SuSE driver. It's a bit shaky doing 3D in Windows too, but I haven't the time or the inclination to pursue it that far as I don't play games. Life's much too interesting for that.
-- GT