crt monitor worked fine, new lcd doesn't (but is fine in windows)

[fartecho]

i'm not sure how much this issue has been addressed, but it would be awesome if someone could shed some light on the scenario.

i've got a brand new samsung 245bw lcd monitor. i'd been using my 19" nec crt monitor for the past 7 years and decided an upgrade was in order.

in windows, it works flawlessly. yet under any distro of linux i've tried (just installed opensuse 11 today, which is what i'll stick with for now), it flickers and/or turns off for a few seconds with any rapid screen movement. sometimes before it shuts off for a few seconds, i will see what looks like poor resolution, coloured 1px lines scrambling across the screen, then it goes black...coming back a second or 2 later.

the most obvious guess i had was a refresh setting was off. but i can't seem to get it to work normally under any refresh rate.

here's my specs:
-samsung 245bw monitor, currently running @ 60hz, 1920x1200
-ati all in wonder 8500 (ancient, i know)
-ATI R200 QL driver

again, it runs flawlessly under windows....but on linux, it's rough. real rough. any thoughts?

[oz]

Hello, and welcome to the forums!

I have that exact monitor and it's worked fine under every Linux distribution that I've tried it with. However, I do use nVidia cards with official nVidia drivers, so can't really speak regarding any output from ATI cards and drivers.

If you can, post your xorg.conf file here so that any ATI users can check it over, looking for anything that might be wrong.

[fartecho]

Hello, and welcome to the forums!

I have that exact monitor and it's worked fine under every Linux distribution that I've tried it with. However, I do use nVidia cards with official nVidia drivers, so can't really speak regarding any output from ATI cards and drivers.

If you can, post your xorg.conf file here so that any ATI users can check it over, looking for anything that might be wrong.

thanks for the reply. should also mention that i can run the monitor via analog cable, no problem...then i just have crap for resolution (it doesn't let me get anywhere near the 1900x1200 that i'm after. here's the contents of my xorg.conf....




# /.../
# SaX generated X11 config file
# Created on: 2008-10-04T16:51:06-0400.
#
# Version: 8.1
# Contact: Marcus Schaefer <sax@suse.de>, 2005
# Contact: SaX-User list <https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/sax-users>
#
# Automatically generated by [ISaX] (8.1)
# PLEASE DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE!
#

Section "Files"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/misc:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/local"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/Type1"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/URW"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/Speedo"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/PEX"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/cyrillic"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/latin2/misc:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/latin2/75dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/latin2/100dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/latin2/Type1"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/latin7/75dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/baekmuk:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/japanese:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/kwintv"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/truetype"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/uni:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/CID"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/ucs/misc:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/ucs/75dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/ucs/100dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/hellas/misc:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/hellas/75dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/hellas/100dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/hellas/Type1"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/misc/sgi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/xtest"
FontPath "/opt/kde3/share/fonts"
InputDevices "/dev/gpmdata"
InputDevices "/dev/input/mice"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
Option "AllowMouseOpenFail" "on"
Option "ZapWarning" "on"
EndSection

Section "Module"
Load "glx"
Load "type1"
Load "extmod"
Load "dbe"
Load "freetype"
Load "dri"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Driver "kbd"
Identifier "Keyboard[0]"
Option "Protocol" "Standard"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
Option "XkbModel" "microsoftpro"
Option "XkbRules" "xfree86"
EndSection


Section "InputDevice"
Driver "mouse"
Identifier "Mouse[1]"
Option "Buttons" "14"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Name" "Logitech USB Receiver"
Option "Protocol" "explorerps/2"
Option "Vendor" "Sysp"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection


Section "Monitor"
DisplaySize 518 324
HorizSync 30-60
Identifier "Monitor[0]"
ModelName "SAMSUNG SYNCMASTER"
Option "DPMS"
Option "PreferredMode" "1920x1200"
VendorName "SAM"
VertRefresh 50-60
UseModes "Modes[0]"
EndSection


Section "Modes"
Identifier "Modes[0]"
Modeline "1920x1200" 154 1920 1968 2000 2080 1200 1203 1209 1235 -hsync +vsync
EndSection


Section "Screen"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 15
Modes "1920x1200" "1900x1200" "1920x1080" "1600x1200" "1680x1050" "1600x1024" "1600x1000" "1400x1050" "1280x1024" "1440x900" "1280x960" "1366x768" "1280x800" "1152x864" "1280x768" "1280x720" "1024x768" "1280x600" "1024x600" "800x600" "768x576" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1920x1200" "1900x1200" "1920x1080" "1600x1200" "1680x1050" "1600x1024" "1600x1000" "1400x1050" "1280x1024" "1440x900" "1280x960" "1366x768" "1280x800" "1152x864" "1280x768" "1280x720" "1024x768" "1280x600" "1024x600" "800x600" "768x576" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1920x1200" "1900x1200" "1920x1080" "1600x1200" "1680x1050" "1600x1024" "1600x1000" "1400x1050" "1280x1024" "1440x900" "1280x960" "1366x768" "1280x800" "1152x864" "1280x768" "1280x720" "1024x768" "1280x600" "1024x600" "800x600" "768x576" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "1920x1200" "1900x1200" "1920x1080" "1600x1200" "1680x1050" "1600x1024" "1600x1000" "1400x1050" "1280x1024" "1440x900" "1280x960" "1366x768" "1280x800" "1152x864" "1280x768" "1280x720" "1024x768" "1280x600" "1024x600" "800x600" "768x576" "640x480"
EndSubSection
Device "Device[0]"
Identifier "Screen[0]"
Monitor "Monitor[0]"
EndSection


Section "Device"
BoardName "R200 QL"
BusID "1:0:0"
Driver "radeon"
Identifier "Device[0]"
Screen 0
VendorName "ATI"
EndSection



Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Layout[all]"
InputDevice "Keyboard[0]" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Mouse[1]" "CorePointer"
Option "Clone" "off"
Option "Xinerama" "off"
Screen "Screen[0]"
EndSection


Section "DRI"
Group "video"
Mode 0660
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
EndSection

[oz]

I don't know that it will help, but your horizontal sync and vertical refresh rates are quite different from mine:

HorizSync 30-81

VertRefresh 56-75

[fartecho]

I don't know that it will help, but your horizontal sync and vertical refresh rates are quite different from mine:

i don't know much about refresh rates, so i probably shouldn't have screwed around, but i'm pretty sure those rates you listed were the same default rates that i had mine set at, and i lowered them. right now what i've been doing to get by is restarting linux with the dvi cable plugged in, then switching the cable running to my computer it to analog after it boots up. so far, so good....but this is obviously not ideal.