[jmadero]

Hey All,

I am having an issue with my monitor blinking. I've reinstalled the graphics drivers and that didn't solve it. It is blinking fairly often. Thanks for any help you can provide.



jmadero

[ozar]

Can you describe the problem better?

Do you mean it's blinking on and off, or is it just flickering?

When you say it's doing this fairly often, do you mean it stops at times?

[jmadero]

I would say it's flickering, not turning on and off. It actually stops sometimes (right now it's not doing it at all). At it's worse it happens about every 2-3 minutes, sometimes it's once every half an hour. I have a Dell Inspiron 9400, with a NVIDIA 7400 GS (I believe) graphics card. Thanks all

jmadero

[ozar]

If you have an LCD monitor, you shouldn't be seeing any flickering.

If you have a CRT, then you might just need to set the vertical refresh rate a bit higher. Check your manual for proper horiz and vert refresh rates and then edit your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file accordingly.

Note that you have to be root to edit that file.

[jmadero]

It's the monitor on the notebook itself....shouldn't be anything about refresh rates...I'm dual booting and it doesn't happen in XP at all

[devils casper]

Originally Posted by jmadero

It's the monitor on the notebook itself....shouldn't be anything about refresh rates

check your NoteBook's Manual. Refresh rates must be specified some where. you have set correct supported Refresh Rates in xorg.conf file.
did you install nVidia driver?

[jmadero]

I did install the NVidia driver immediately after installing Ubuntu (that went without a hitch), and until recently (the past couple days) there had been no blinking (have been running Ubuntu for close to a month). Thanks

[devils casper]

did you upgrade Kernel recently? How many options ( kernel versions ) GRUB Menu displays at startup?

[jmadero]

There are two Kernal options on startup I believe, plus two backup ones and XP.

[devils casper]

post the contents of /boot/grub/menu.lst file

less /boot/grub/menu.lst