Re: HDMI-connected flat panel keeps blanking

2009-11-29 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sat, 28 Nov 2009, Tom Horsley wrote: On Fri, 27 Nov 2009 22:33:40 -0500 (EST) Robert P. J. Day wrote: the setup seems correct, except for the persistent blanking. thoughts? I went through that for years thinking it was an ATI driver problem, but finally found it was the display

Re: HDMI-connected flat panel keeps blanking

2009-11-29 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sun, 29 Nov 2009 06:32:11 -0500 (EST) Robert P. J. Day wrote: ok, i guess i can try another display. I make to promises, just pointing out that for me, it turned out to be a display problem (but the zillion or so bugs I found in google searchs about display blanking and ATI cards had

Re: HDMI-connected flat panel keeps blanking

2009-11-28 Thread Tom Horsley
On Fri, 27 Nov 2009 22:33:40 -0500 (EST) Robert P. J. Day wrote: the setup seems correct, except for the persistent blanking. thoughts? I went through that for years thinking it was an ATI driver problem, but finally found it was the display itself (in my case a Westinghouse Digital HDTV

HDMI-connected flat panel keeps blanking

2009-11-27 Thread Robert P. J. Day
i just HDMI-connected a gateway flat panel display to my f12 laptop, and configured the display to span. in short order, i got the standard f12 desktop background to display on the flat panel and, yes, i can move the cursor off the right-hand side of my laptop and watch it magically appear on