> > I am running unstable, Kernel 2.4.22 and KDE on the a.m. laptop. As > > video driver the binary driver from nvidia is used. From time to time the > > screens flickers for a quarter of a second and then it returns to normal > > operations. It never happens more than once a minute. > > Does the screen flicker off and on, or pause for a little? On my old > Toshiba (2775XDVD), the whole computer paused for a little; that > precipitated the death of the hard drive. If it's relatively new, though, > that shouldn't be a problem (the drive on my 2775 was 3+ years old).
Hi, hard to say in these terms really. It gets black for a very short time, but not the whole screen. It doesn't look to me that is completly blacks, but more like switching to a different video mode. Again it happens very quickly and I am almost sure it is not blackening completly and not changing the video mode. Sorry for beeing so unprecise ;-( The temperature reported by acpi is around 50-60 degree celsius and I firmly believe that the symptom is not getting worse, read happens more often, during a session. I can't tell if the whole computer is freezing as it is much less than a second. Can I provide any additional information? I attached my XF86Config file, but doubt that is of any help. I don't have any relevant messages in syslog, but would be happy to paste it also if that makes any sense?! Cheers, Mariano
