Widescreen Monitor config Problem

Graeme Gill graeme2 at argyllcms.com
Thu Sep 23 17:50:51 PDT 2010


Scott Ballantyne wrote:
> I have a LG FLATRON W2253VP widescreen monitor. No matter how I run X,
> the monitor goes blank, enters power saving mode, and I must reboot to
> reactivate the monitor.

This could be completely unrelated, but I notice that I get similar
symptoms if I try and run any of the recent Linux releases. I've
got an Intel graphics chip in the system, and the magic workaround
seems to be to use the "nomodeset" boot option.
(One hopes that this bug has been fixed upstream!)

Graeme Gill.



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