I recently switched from fedora to gentoo, it's a dual boot system. Never in Fedora, not in windows, but in gentoo, I get screen flickers/static. It's not a hardware problem as just a little bit ago I was in windows, no problem. The connections to the monitor and so forth are fine.
When I type in, for instance, this window (gmail in firefox) the screen flickers with each keystroke. Also, if I'm in the terminal window, for gnome, and type, same thing. Perhaps flicker is a bad description. To the nake eye a series of horizontal lines flash, about one or two per key stroke. The system monitor isn't showing anything out of the ordinary, low CPU usage and low memory [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ top top - 02:31:52 up 5:55, 2 users, load average: 0.02, 0.16, 0.15 Tasks: 74 total, 1 running, 73 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 4.0% us, 1.0% sy, 0.0% ni, 95.0% id, 0.0% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.0% si Mem: 223364k total, 208064k used, 15300k free, 11912k buffers Swap: 441776k total, 0k used, 441776k free, 97228k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 9752 root 15 0 58736 20m 6328 S 2.7 9.5 28:35.53 X 10747 thufir 15 0 24416 12m 8616 S 1.7 5.8 0:01.45 gnome-terminal 9839 thufir 15 0 17808 8984 6856 S 0.3 4.0 0:00.78 multiload-apple 10753 thufir 16 0 2056 1056 816 R 0.3 0.5 0:00.02 top 1 root 16 0 1468 484 424 S 0.0 0.2 0:01.15 init 2 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 migration/0 3 root 34 19 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 ksoftirqd/0 4 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 watchdog/0 5 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.14 events/0 6 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.01 khelper 7 root 11 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.01 kthread 9 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.02 kblockd/0 10 root 20 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kacpid 121 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 pdflush 122 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 pdflush 124 root 17 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 aio/0 123 root 25 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kswapd0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ date Fri Mar 24 02:31:56 GMT 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ thanks, Thufir -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list