[ale] nVidia chop suey

[John Wells]

fyi, I'm running a Geforce 2 GTS with the 1.0-2960 drivers at 1280x1024/24
bit color and have had no such problem.

John

Fulton Green said:
> I'm running RH 8.0 with an nVidia GeForce 2 MX card on a 1280x1024
> monitor. I've noticed that when the monitor is turned off for a long
> time (either manually or through a power management event), when it
> comes back on the screen is jumbled, similar to one of those puzzle-type
> screensavers, except it's not a screensaver.  I'm able to eventually
> figure out how to close down my apps and log out, but it sure is
> annoying.  And if I only merely log out and log back in, I'll notice
> these tiny horizontal lines that keep popping on the screen and quickly
> disappearing, like some weird scan- line effect.
>
> If I reboot, the problem goes away as does the scanline problem (until
> the next time the monitor goes off and stays off for awhile). And,
> naturally, the problem isn't manifested in Windows XP, which I boot into
> occasionally.
>
> Any clues?
>
> TIA
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