Yes, I have the same motherboard / chipset. Thanks for your help!
Rodney M. Jokerst
On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, Nathan Thompson wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 03:11:01PM -0600, Rodney M. Jokerst wrote:
> > This action causes my screen to go blank in X and remain blank
> > unless I move the mouse or type on the keyboard. The second I stop doing
> > one of these activities, it goes blank again. While it is blank, it seems
> > to be flashing every second, as if it is recieving blank screen commands
> > repeatedly. This behavior continues until I restart the machine. If I
> > switch to a console, everything is fine. If I restart the X server, the
> > behavior continues.
>
> Is this a VIA chipset based motherboard?
>
> If so someone (Vojtech Pavlik ?) has a patch that helps this...
> It is a hardware error.
>
> For what it's worth I have seen this exact same behavior on my machine
> in 2.2.x.
>
> I have an abit ka7 motherboard, via kx133 chipset.
>
> Nate
>
> > thanks,
> >
> > Rodney M. Jokerst
>
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