Re: [FWD]: Redhat 9.0 and video woes

[Alexander Volovics <awol home nl>]

On Mon, Apr 28, 2003 at 01:53:05PM -1000, Warren Togami wrote:

> On Mon, 2003-04-28 at 13:15, Maddog wrote:
> > I am running RH 9.0 (fresh install) on my Toshiba Satellite 1415 - S173 with
> > Invidia GeForce 420 Go graphics controller. RH 8.0 Ran fine with this setup.
> > Whenever the screen blanks and I wake up the laptop the creen in divided
> > into 2 sections Horizontally. The tool bar that resides on the bottom of the
> > screen is in the middle of the screen. I have disabled Power Management and
> > the screen saver to no avail The problem is alleviated when I log out of X
> > and log back in. It really is rather irritating to have to keep doing this.
> > Especially when working on a document.
 
> Anyone heard anything like this before?  If not I'll help to collect
> debugging info from his laptop and file a Bugzilla report.

If I remember correctly I filed a bugzilla report for this problem
about a year ago when we were all using phoebe.

(Also, if I remember correctly Mike Harris replied that this was
 an 'upstream' problem and I should report it there, which I am sorry
 to say, I failed to do).

It seems to be 'nv' driver and possibly XFree86-4.3 related.
I have this problem with the 'nv' driver on a i8100 and i8200 with
the GeForce 2 Go and the GeForce 440 Go (under Phoebe, Shrike and
Mandrake 9.1).

It also happens when you use the '(blue) Fn - battery' and '(blue)
Fn - setup' key combinations you have on the dell inspirons to see
battery status and access the bios setup.

This is a "new" problem. I didn't have it with previous versions of
XFree and 'nv' driver. And it is quite possible that it disappears if
you use the 'nvidia' driver.

I have not checked yet to see if it also happen when you switch to an
external CRT/LCD and back. 

It is indeed very irritating to have to use 'Ctrl-Alt-F1', 'Ctrl-Alt-F7'
all the time so maybe some action should be undertaken again.

Alexander