Do you have any other monitor you could temporarily use to help narrow in on the problem?<br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 5:30 PM, Bret Busby <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bret.busby@gmail.com">bret.busby@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div><div></div><div class="h5">On 30/06/2011, Bret Busby <<a href="mailto:bret.busby@gmail.com">bret.busby@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Hello.<br>
><br>
> I am running Debian 5, on, I think, an AMD Athlon, and the monitor is<br>
> a Viewsonic VZ703b 17" 4:3 aspect ratio screen.<br>
><br>
> (I do not remember how to get the displaying of the hardware<br>
> components (CPU, graphics adaptor/accelerator, display, etc)<br>
><br>
> In the last few days, the monitor has started to "flash" off - going<br>
> black, with nothing displayed, for a couple of seconds at a time.<br>
><br>
> This can happen repeatedly, with progressively increasing frequency<br>
> during a session as described below.<br>
><br>
> It seems to happen mostly when I am running alpine, within a terminal<br>
> window.<br>
><br>
> Apart from it having happened once just before staring to compose<br>
> this message, shortly after I opened konqueror, to log into my gmail<br>
> (which may be the only time that it has happened other than when I<br>
> have been so using alpine), within a minute or so of my closing down<br>
> alpine and the terminal window, I do not remember it happening with<br>
> applications other than when I have been running alpine within a<br>
> terminal window.<br>
><br>
> Is this an indication that the monitor is likely stuffed, or the<br>
> graphics adaptor is stuffed, or that the fault lies in the<br>
> alpine/xterm/gnome combination?<br>
><br>
> A new printer has been installed; a Samsung CLX3185Fw, using the<br>
> Samsung Unified Driver (which required a replacement of the Samsung<br>
> Unified Driver, to provide for the printer, which was not available<br>
> with the previous version of the Unified Driver), which may be about<br>
> the timing of the start of the problem, but I am not sure of the exact<br>
> timing of the start of the problem and the installation of the printer<br>
> - both have been in the last few days.<br>
><br>
> So, I do not know whether the problem could lie with the printer or<br>
> the printer driver.<br>
><br>
> Thanks in anticipation.<br>
><br>
> --<br>
> Bret Busby<br>
> Armadale<br>
> West Australia<br>
> ..............<br>
><br>
<br>
</div></div>And, while it appeared to be stable (-ish) when I was working using<br>
the GUI, to send the email message using gmail, when I tried using a<br>
console (<CTRL><ALT><F2 (I think) >), it happened again, again with<br>
progressively increasing frequency, while I was trying to compose a<br>
message using alpine, yet, when I exited alpine and closed that<br>
console, and (managed to, with difficulty) return(ed) to the GUI, to<br>
write this message, the problem again disappeared.<br>
<br>
Thus, it appears to be a fault within alpine or the xterm/console<br>
application thingy.<br>
<br>
Weird.<br>
<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br>
--<br>
Bret Busby<br>
Armadale<br>
West Australia<br>
..............<br>
<br>
"So once you do know what the question actually is,<br>
you'll know what the answer means."<br>
- Deep Thought,<br>
Chapter 28 of Book 1 of<br>
"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:<br>
A Trilogy In Four Parts",<br>
written by Douglas Adams,<br>
published by Pan Books, 1992<br>
<br>
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