Flickering screen/old laptop/Debian

[MadChipmunk]

Hello, I installed Debian (6.0.3 x86) on my girlfriend's laptop (Asus Z96H). Then I ran it I got flickering screen. Here are


Xorg.conf ht tp://freetexthost.com/3af4qwlj43
Xorg.0.log ht tp://freetexthost.com/qufa3fc20u

Well, I thought by fixing this:

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier     "Monitor0"
    VendorName     "Monitor Vendor"
    ModelName      "Monitor Mode1"
    HorizSync       30.0 - 83.0
    VertRefresh     56.0 - 75.0
EndSection

I would fix it all (still I don't know if these are correct settings for HorizSync and VertRefresh). Maybe anyone can help me?

Edit: I can't add code, because system thinks that there is url in it.

[cynwulf]

Change you frequencies to these

HorizSync 30-80
    VertRefresh 56-65

Restart x or rebot, if that doesn't help, temporarily remove xorg.conf

mv /etc/X11/xorg.conf  /etc/X11/xorg.conf~

Reboot and post outputs

grep EE /var/log/Xorg.0.log

grep WW /var/log/Xorg.0.log

(use code tags [code]your text here[/code])

[MadChipmunk]

HorizSync 30-80
VertRefresh 56-65

Doesn't work...

Error log:

(II) Loading extension MIT-SCREEN-SAVE
(EE) open /dev/fb0: No such file or directory
(EE) SIS(0): Illegal video RAM size (262144K) detected, using BIOS-provided info
(--) SIS(0): MMIO regosters at 0xFDEE0000 (size 64K)
(EE) SynPS/2 Synaptics Touchpad Unable to query/initialize Synaptics hardware.
(EE) PreInit failed for input debice "SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad"

Warning log:

(WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic" does not exist.
The directory "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType" does not exist.
(WW) Falling back to old probe method for sis
(WW) Falling back to old probe method for vesa
(WW) Falling back to old probe method for fbdev
(WW) SIS(0): Could not find/read video BIOS
(WW) SIS(0): Unable to estimate virtual size

And I was trying to add conf and log file to , but it still didn't let me.

[fanderal]

Two suggestions:

If the pkg "firmware-linux" is not installed, please install it. It will bring in both free and non-free firmware blobs (drivers) your video hardware might need:

 sudo apt-get install firmware-linux

When Debian's installed, it does not automatically create a xorg.conf file. Unless there's a specific reason for creating the file (multiple monitors, multiple GPUs, etc) you're better off letting the system set the monitor. So you won't lose the xorg.conf file you created:

 sudo mv /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.old

After doing the above, reboot.

[cynwulf]

I asked the OP to move the xorg.conf to a backup and reboot previously, judging by the log output I'd say he did try that and it hasn't made any difference.

Also firmware-linux is a metapackage which installs firmware-linux-free and firmware-linux-nonfree. I can see nothing in either of those that would be helpful here.

@the OP can you next create a simple xorg.conf as follows, reboot and see what that does:

Section "Device"
    Identifier  "Device0"
    Driver              "fbdev"
EndSection

[fanderal]

@the OP can you next create a simple xorg.conf as follows, reboot and see what that does:

The OP posted what he did to resolve this at linuxquestions.

[cynwulf]

The OP posted what he did to resolve this at linuxquestions.

Thanks for letting me know. Always good to know that you're wasting your time...

[SOLVED] Flickering screen

I had to install Windows XP. :/