My monitor keeps flickering every now and then, i happens more than a couple of times in a day. I have Debian Squeeze installed, the system is updated.
Below is the relevant o/p from lspci -v
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$lspci -v
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82G33/G31 Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 0a) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: Dell Device 0294
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just setup suse 11.3 , put on the Nvidia 19.29-22.1 drivers via yast , no kms is set in inetd , nomodeset on grub boot line etc... Even tried installing the driver " the hard way " dual monitors come up, setup xinerama to "Extend" my desktop , and the main monitor ( right side ) is good, visually the left monitor (2ndary) is good.. but whenever I move my mouse over to the left screen the mouse pointer dissapears, flickers along the right hand border of that screen... and if i move the cursor back to the original screen i have to really fight to get it back to the main screen....Copy of my xorg.conf , still very basic...
# nvidia-settings: X configuration file generated by nvidia-settings
# nvidia-settings: version 260.19.29 (buildmeister@swio-display-x86-rhel47-04.
nvidia.com) Wed Dec 8 12:27:27 PST 2010
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My monitor flickers 3-4 times only during startup.I also get some bunch of errors before ubuntu is loaded.I cannot see those error messages because ubuntu is loaded instantly.I only get 1-2 second to read those errors(but i can't read so fast).Can i read them ? How should i stop my monitor to flicker.Also, my postcode shows 00(it used to show FF on windows 7), any ideas why ?
Also can i install any graphics driver ? I read something somewhere and all i have is -
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I'm on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS - the Lucid Lynx.
Have any of you used Debian 6 Squeeze yet? Have you encountered a problem of the OS not entirely filling in the left side of the video monitor leaving approximately (19 inch monitor) a half inch vertically black non-filled part?
This happens in several Debian 6 Squeeze itterations: Net-intall, commercial intalls, etc.
It could be a hardware problem but it happens on other machines as well, so I do not lean that way. There are other machinations of video pasting during bootup such as the left hand of the screen being on the right and vice-versa, scrunched up lines of garbage taking hold of certain sections of the screen.
I have been running Squeeze for quite a while on my Asus W5F laptop, and recently I have started having intermittent issues with it not starting the backlight after returning from suspend/sleep. Most of the time, the screen comes on as it is supposed to, but once in a while the computer resumes but the backlight is off. It is not just turned down to the lowest brightness setting, it is all the way off. I can read the screen only if I take a flashlight and shine it on the screen and look very closely. Most of the time, it is just easier to go to another machine and use ssh to restart.
I'm not familiar with how the suspend/resume process works, so I don't really know where to look for configuration options. It seems like there are a number of different places, but how they work together, I don't know....
Neither the keyboard brightness adjustment nor echoing values to /proc/acpi/video/VGA/LCDD/brightness have any effect, though these do work to change the brightness when the backlight is on.
I took a look in /usr/lib/hal/scripts/linux/hal-system-power-suspend-linux, which shows the following options.
[ "$HAL_PROP_POWER_MANAGEMENT_QUIRK_S3_BIOS" = "true" ] && QUIRKS="$QUIRKS --quirk-s3-bios"
[ "$HAL_PROP_POWER_MANAGEMENT_QUIRK_S3_MODE" = "true" ] && QUIRKS="$QUIRKS --quirk-s3-mode"
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The laptop is several years old and has had the lcd display replaced a year or two ago. It is possible that it is a hardware failure, but I lean away from that because a restart always brings the screen up fine, as does closing and opening the lid (which blacks the screen, no suspend).
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Pertinent dmesg lines: AMI BIOS detected: BIOS may corrupt low RAM, working around it.
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883MB LOWMEM available.
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After dist-upgrade a few days ago, X refuses to kick in.
Xorg.0.log reads
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Fatal server error:
no screens found
Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support at http://wiki.x.org
Please also check the log file at "/var/log/Xorg.0.log" for additional information. lshw reads that Xpress 200M is claimed by radeonfb driver.
At this moment, no fglrx packages are installed.
System is Toshiba laptop.
I do not think ATI dropped support, however, even without fglrx, nothing works.
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EDITED: Correction of typing errors.
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