g wrote:
John Richard Smith wrote:
Now, as I read this, we passed a command to set to 0
the time interval to nought, the powersave and powerdown
to disable..
If I'm correct , it refused on the powersave issue.
you are correct.
[see below]
Now some 10-20 minutes later , another blank black
g wrote:
John Richard Smith wrote:
Now, as I read this, we passed a command to set to 0
the time interval to nought, the powersave and powerdown
to disable..
If I'm correct , it refused on the powersave issue.
you are correct.
[see below]
Now some 10-20 minutes later , another blank black
John Richard Smith wrote:
As an identicle comparative test it will not do much, since the screen res
and vid card are different, ie less demanding.
may be identical. but, is an assurance that there is no problem with
1st monitor. but using system that is working correct, you will prove
that
g wrote:
John Richard Smith wrote:
As an identicle comparative test it will not do much, since the
screen res
and vid card are different, ie less demanding.
may be identical. but, is an assurance that there is no problem with
1st monitor. but using system that is working correct, you will
John Richard Smith wrote:
Take your point.
i was hoping you would see where i was going.
This is interesting.
One,
both monitors ,
monitor on M9.0is now on M8.1 for 6 hours, no 2 second glitch event
monitor2 on M8.1is now on M9.0 for 6 hours, no 2 second glitch
event.
g wrote:
a command that i had forgotten because i have not used it
in over 12 years, 'setterm'.
so you will know, do 'man setterm' to see what goes with it.
this is what i want you to enter from cli, before starting x,
setterm -blank 0 -powersave off -powerdown 0
g wrote:
a command that i had forgotten because i have not used it
in over 12 years, 'setterm'.
so you will know, do 'man setterm' to see what goes with it.
this is what i want you to enter from cli, before starting x,
setterm -blank 0 -powersave off
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g wrote:
a command that i had forgotten because i have not used it
in over 12 years, 'setterm
Dennis Myers wrote:
---
Are you sure it is not a screensaver activity with no screensaver chosen?
Sure does act that way from your description. Guessing.
Yes, I'm pretty sure of that, checked it many times, it's true I have
that little
John Richard Smith wrote:
Now, as I read this, we passed a command to set to 0
the time interval to nought, the powersave and powerdown
to disable..
If I'm correct , it refused on the powersave issue.
you are correct.
[see below]
Now some 10-20 minutes later , another blank black screen ,
with
g wrote:
what colour was 'power on' led when you first returned?
what does your manual say about colour indications?
ria.
specs for my monitor;
led screen dpms
colour [display power management system]
nonepower off
green active
amber off
yellow suspend / stand-by
g wrote:
John Richard Smith wrote:
OK, so I left the setup on in
ctrl-alt f5 to root shell mode for 3 hours,
came backto a blank black screen,
hit enter and root shell returned.
what colour was 'power on' led when you first returned?
Green. It's always been green.
what does your manual
g wrote:
John Richard Smith wrote:
OK, so I left the setup on in
ctrl-alt f5 to root shell mode for 3 hours,
came backto a blank black screen,
hit enter and root shell returned.
what colour was 'power on' led when you first returned?
Green. It's always been green.
what does your
John Richard Smith wrote:
[cp/]
Another interesting developement.
I've been leaning how to use Gentoo boot disc,
it I had a Thunggg. That is, a power off with a degauss,
thunggg is after, not before power off, correct?
So if it can happen in a very low resolution setup like
this, out of
g wrote:
John Richard Smith wrote:
[cp/]
Another interesting developement.
I've been leaning how to use Gentoo boot disc,
it I had a Thunggg. That is, a power off with a degauss,
thunggg is after, not before power off, correct?
Correct.
But I can confirm the problem occures in every
John Richard Smith wrote:
It seems to me that possibly before attempting to unscrew
the monitor case , would any combination of the above be
responsible for the odd behaviour. Something has to be
giving me a blank black screen after so many minutes, I had
assumed it was bios APM , but since
g wrote:
John Richard Smith wrote:
It seems to me that possibly before attempting to unscrew
the monitor case , would any combination of the above be
responsible for the odd behaviour. Something has to be
giving me a blank black screen after so many minutes, I had
assumed it was bios
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John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Well anyway I suppose it does not hurt to have the
monitor back off. I'm willing to try, but I would like to
be fresh at doing this , say tomorrow afternoon
about 1300hrs GMT.
This is a built in setting in all
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John Richard Smith wrote:
Jerry Barton wrote:
I haven't mentioned one other thing. Just recently, on shutdown, the
monitor powers off and then turns itself back on again with no signal
while the rest of the computer is dead. It does this in all OS's in
cluding
windblows. It ought to power off
g wrote:
John Richard Smith wrote:
thunk = relay
thunggg = degauss coil
thunk is relay turning on or off.
thunggg is degaussing when power is first applied and should only
occur when
power is first applied and it should follow thunk when relay turns
power on.
when power turns off,
On Friday 21 Feb 2003 11:54 am, John Richard Smith wrote:
g wrote:
John Richard Smith wrote:
i hope you were neat about it. :)
Yes, not only neat but changed all the multiplugs etc etc I suspect
one may of been less than ideal, one just gets carried away at times
adding pieces of
John Richard Smith wrote:
I will do this next , I have to go out for a while, so I'll set the OS
to a root shell and leave it a few hours, come back and watch it a bit more
to see if there are any momentary lapses.
this should prove out if you are drawing excess current from ps and
cause it
g wrote:
John Richard Smith wrote:
I will do this next , I have to go out for a while, so I'll set the OS
to a root shell and leave it a few hours, come back and watch it a
bit more
to see if there are any momentary lapses.
this should prove out if you are drawing excess current from
g wrote:
John Richard Smith wrote:
I will do this next , I have to go out for a while, so I'll set the OS
to a root shell and leave it a few hours, come back and watch it a
bit more
to see if there are any momentary lapses.
this should prove out if you are drawing excess
Anne Wilson wrote:
On the 'slight flicker' - have you made sure you don't have speakers too
close? On one monitor I had the effect was to really degrade and flicker
certain areas of screen. The problem went entirely when I moved them.
Possibly newer speakers are better shielded, though?
John Richard Smith wrote:
Anne Wilson wrote:
I had no idea the coils in speakers would be powerful enough to influence
a monitor screen. I do have them close, have now pushed them further away.
I cannot say I notice any difference.
ask your wife. you have already admitted you can not see.
John Richard Smith wrote:
OK, so I left the setup on in
ctrl-alt f5 to root shell mode for 3 hours,
came backto a blank black screen,
hit enter and root shell returned.
this could also be mandrake blanking screen. i have all bios settings
to disable any timing and i get video blanking at
g wrote:
John Richard Smith wrote:
OK, so I left the setup on in
ctrl-alt f5 to root shell mode for 3 hours,
came backto a blank black screen,
hit enter and root shell returned.
this could also be mandrake blanking screen. i have all bios settings
to disable any timing and i get video
FemmeFatale wrote:
At 07:07 AM 2/19/2003 -0500, you wrote:
I have a 19 NEC Multisync FE 950+. Yes i hear it too. Don't know what
multisync means ... inferior? Its an aperture grille tube too. I liek it.
did you get a manual with your monitor?
peace out.
tc,hago.
g
.
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et wrote:
On Wednesday 19 February 2003 06:11 pm, FemmeFatale wrote:
I have a 17 NEC Multisync FE700
did you get a manual with your monitor?
peace out.
tc,hago.
g
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Tom Brinkman wrote:
On Wednesday February 19 2003 11:26 am, John Richard Smith wrote:
a bad connector somewhere in the monitor circuits. I really don't
suspect UK power supply, that at least is one thing you can rely
on, your gonna get 240v 50 Hz dead stable all the year round, and I
live in a
John Richard Smith wrote:
OK, so I left the setup on in
ctrl-alt f5 to root shell mode for 3 hours,
came backto a blank black screen,
hit enter and root shell returned.
what colour was 'power on' led when you first returned?
what does your manual say about colour indications?
Now I actually
Stephen Kuhn wrote:
On Tue, 2003-02-18 at 22:17, John Richard Smith wrote:
I am getting random intermittent monditor shutdown and return when
under X windows. It does not seem to happen under W2K.
I have W2K, M9.0, and M9.1beta3 on, with spare ext2+ NT partitions .
I seemed to begin after
John Richard Smith wrote:
Stephen Kuhn wrote:
On Tue, 2003-02-18 at 22:17, John Richard Smith wrote:
I'd be led to wonder if it's a flaky Energy Savings issue - are you in
KDE, or GrrrGNOME?
this email, literally anything, and you get that Thun sound from the
monitor,
john,
i
g wrote:
John Richard Smith wrote:
Stephen Kuhn wrote:
On Tue, 2003-02-18 at 22:17, John Richard Smith wrote:
I'd be led to wonder if it's a flaky Energy Savings issue - are you in
KDE, or GrrrGNOME?
this email, literally anything, and you get that Thun sound from
the
Quite possibly the sound that you are hearing is your monitor switching modes.
I have heard this sound many times, especially on multi-sync monitors.
Maybe I am wrong, but I hear this sound every day when I boot into MDK 9.0
and my monitor is 5 years old and has not blown up yet...
Anyone else
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On Wednesday 19 February 2003 07:08 am, John Richard Smith wrote:
Yes that is it, normally the Thunggg happens on first powerup from dead, I
don't normally hear it again until close down. Just recently the monitor
has been randomly powering off
Mudder wrote:
Quite possibly the sound that you are hearing is your monitor
switching modes.
I have heard this sound many times, especially on multi-sync monitors.
Maybe I am wrong, but I hear this sound every day when I boot into MDK
9.0
and my monitor is 5 years old and has not blown up
On Wednesday 19 February 2003 08:29 am, John Richard Smith wrote:
Mudder wrote:
Quite possibly the sound that you are hearing is your monitor
switching modes.
I have heard this sound many times, especially on multi-sync monitors.
Maybe I am wrong, but I hear this sound every day when I
On Wednesday February 19 2003 04:27 am, John Richard Smith wrote:
I suppose
that only leaves APM, but if so it's in both M9.0 and M9.1beta3.
Now, I just took a look at linux kernel configurator and it did say
APM was enabled, ie ticked, so I disabled it for a while to see if
that helps.I
On Wednesday February 19 2003 06:08 am, John Richard Smith wrote:
been randomly powering off with this noise, a moments black screen,
and then back to whereever I was on desktop, nothing lost ,and it
does it automatically I'm not having to reset anything, I feel
it's a monitor / power
g wrote:
John Richard Smith wrote:
Yes that is it, normally the Thunggg happens on first powerup from
dead, I
don't normally hear it again until close down. Just recently the
monitor has
been randomly powering off with this noise, a moments black screen, and
then back to whereever I was on
At 07:07 AM 2/19/2003 -0500, you wrote:
Quite possibly the sound that you are hearing is your monitor switching modes.
I have heard this sound many times, especially on multi-sync monitors.
Maybe I am wrong, but I hear this sound every day when I boot into MDK 9.0
and my monitor is 5 years old
John Richard Smith wrote:
Oh, it's quite short, how can I put it, the whole thing including the
sound and black screen back to desktop is no more than a couple of
seconds
short thunk, when power is first applied, 1, 2 seconds and then thunggg.
in powering off, there would be no thunggg as
On Thu, 2003-02-20 at 10:11, FemmeFatale wrote:
I have a 19 NEC Multisync FE 950+. Yes i hear it too. Don't know what
multisync means ... inferior? Its an aperture grille tube too. I liek it.
-
FemmeFatale
Is it pink as well?
(BTW, the wife and I have taken to doing
On Wednesday 19 February 2003 06:11 pm, FemmeFatale wrote:
At 07:07 AM 2/19/2003 -0500, you wrote:
Quite possibly the sound that you are hearing is your monitor switching
modes. I have heard this sound many times, especially on multi-sync
monitors. Maybe I am wrong, but I hear this sound
At 05:26 PM 2/19/2003 +, you wrote:
On the otherhand, while typing this message I just had another relapse,
only this time no thunggg, the screen picture just collapsed inwards to a
point
and disappeared to a black picture that lasted only a second, and then the
picture returned as quickly.
At 06:46 PM 2/19/2003 -0500, you wrote:
you are such a show off 19 NEC Multisync. gee I did not think women
got into mine is bigger thatn yours kinda contests.
to answer the question (I have a 17 NEC Multisync FE700) do you most often
hear that when changeing modes? like when you start X
I am getting random intermittent monditor shutdown and return when
under X windows. It does not seem to happen under W2K.
I have W2K, M9.0, and M9.1beta3 on, with spare ext2+ NT partitions .
I seemed to begin after I installed beta3, though I'm not suggesting one
way or the other , whether
On Tue, 2003-02-18 at 22:17, John Richard Smith wrote:
I am getting random intermittent monditor shutdown and return when
under X windows. It does not seem to happen under W2K.
I have W2K, M9.0, and M9.1beta3 on, with spare ext2+ NT partitions .
I seemed to begin after I installed beta3,
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2001 8:47 AM
Subject: [newbie] Xwindows wont start
hey group,
Has anyone ever come across this error message when trying to boot up
into X
init:Id x respawning too fast: disabled for 5 min
I am not sure
hey group,
Has anyone ever come across this error message when trying to boot up
into X
init:Id x respawning too fast: disabled for 5 min
I am not sure exactly what happend.it was working fine until I ran
mousedrake and tried to configure my mouse
Any ideas?
Andrew
--
It's a beautiful
I've seen this one a bunch,not sure it had anything to do with the mouse in
my case,but video card related,a Rage 128. But to fix it,I did an update an
chose NOT to start x automatically. I didn't hafta change any resolution
settings,but it seemed to be the key nonetheless,works great now.
If you have trouble with X respawning. Wait for it to pause to catch its
breath, and then hit Ctl+Alt+F2 to get you to another console window
Log in as root, and then type 'init 3' This will stop X trying to start
again.
You can then rerun 'mousedrake', or 'XFdrake' if it is a video problem.
My Xwindows not work since I changed some features of his config. The
amazing is that I probe the new config and It works. The next time I reboot
don´t work.
I have try to reconfigure it using Xconfigurate and don´t work also.
Any ideas?
Thanks.
I'm using Mandrake linux
7.2 and after booting up, xwindows
used to start automatically. but recently xwindows won't
startlinux stop at the command line. When I type xstart, it
said there is an error read the XFree86.0.log.
which say --- could not init
font path element unix/: -1,
in install try fbdev. that is more copatable.
you didn't mention what card you have
Derek Rayne wrote:
Hi there,
I am still stuck on configuring my Xwindows, I am having very bad
luck, even if I try the standard VGA or SVGA. Could my card be not one
supported?
Richard Wegner
Linux Newbie
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi there,
I am still stuck on configuring my Xwindows, I am having very bad
luck, even if I try the standard VGA or SVGA. Could my card be not one
supported?
Richard Wegner
Linux Newbie
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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I have two machnes running on my network. one dual 200 192 megs of ram,
and a amd 450 with 64 megs of ram.
I log on to my amd machine, and I try to start up xprograms. I remember
my unix teacher showed us how to do it, a year ago. I forgot how to do
that now.
What do I need to do, to get
I have mandrake 6.0 running, upgraded from 5.3. When I was using 5.3, after you
had the video server running it would start a program that allowed you to tweak
the card settings. Allowing for screen position adjustments , centering and
such. I need to run this program, but I don't know what its
On Sun, 05 Sep 1999, you wrote:
I have mandrake 6.0 running, upgraded from 5.3. When I was using 5.3, after you
had the video server running it would start a program that allowed you to tweak
the card settings. Allowing for screen position adjustments , centering and
such. I need to run this
In an x console type:
xvidtune
Robert Weider wrote:
I have mandrake 6.0 running, upgraded from 5.3. When I was using 5.3, after you
had the video server running it would start a program that allowed you to tweak
the card settings. Allowing for
Robert Weider [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have mandrake 6.0 running, upgraded from 5.3. When I was using 5.3, after
youbrhad the video server running it would start a program that allowed you
to tweakbrthe card settings. Allowing for screen position adjustments ,
centering andbrsuch. I need to run
Hi everyone,
I continue with my Linux quest. Today I have this problem:
After installing Linux when the system finally boots and the XWindows
starts, I enter
the system using my root access or my user password. After that the X cursor
appears
and the system began to work endless without ever
Rerunning Xconfigurator should have remedied this for you.
On Sun, 4 Jul 1999, Steve Winston wrote:
Friday, I installed a new motherboard, and Venus seemed to accept that
with no problems. But.
When I tried to start my computer this a.m., it wouldn't boot into
Xwindows. Instead, the
Fredrik Karlsen wrote:
I have just installed Mandrake 5.3, but i can't get the Xwindows going.
My hardware is
Processor: Pentium 233 MMX
Video card: Hercules Stingray 128/3d
Ram: 144Mb
What chipset is on the Stingrays?
I think its a problem with my configuration, when i
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Date: Sunday, December 27, 1998 10:07 PM
Subject: [newbie] Xwindows and Diamond G460
Hello everyone, just ran an install of Mandrake, however, does anyone
have the info necessary for configuring Xwindows for a Diamond Stealth
II G460 video card?
Thanks people...
Hello everyone, just ran an install of Mandrake, however, does anyone
have the info necessary for configuring Xwindows for a Diamond Stealth
II G460 video card?
Thanks people...
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