I just installed FC3 -- RC5. The first time I logged into my account, I added a terminal window application launcher icon to my panel, and promptly opened the terminal window. A few minutes after doing this, an ugly pink flickering started up. the screen would flicker and the window would turn shades of pink from light to medium. Moving in and out of the terminal window (for example, switching focus to a Mozilla window) did not stop the flickering.
This is on an ATI Radeon 9700 card -- it's listed as an 9700 Pro although I think it might be an 9700 All In Wonder card -- with a ViewSonic A90f+ running at 1152 X 864 and 'millions of colors'.
I decided to 'shut down' the machine and turn it on again and see if that would help (that is, remove the flickering). This gave me a scare for a few moments because suddenly there was no output at all to my monitor! No BIOS messages...no Grub menu...just a steadily glowing 'power' LED. I pressed the system 'reset' button once with the same effect. I tried it again after turning the monitor off and then on and that restored my video output!
After a successful reboot, the flickering problem did go away. But while checking my display settings, I brought up Applications --> System Settings --> Display and that restarted the flickering.
Bob Cochran Greenbelt, Maryland, USA
Robert L Cochran wrote:
I just installed FC3 -- RC5. The first time I logged into my account, I added a terminal window application launcher icon to my panel, and promptly opened the terminal window. A few minutes after doing this, an ugly pink flickering started up. the screen would flicker and the window would turn shades of pink from light to medium. Moving in and out of the terminal window (for example, switching focus to a Mozilla window) did not stop the flickering.
This is on an ATI Radeon 9700 card -- it's listed as an 9700 Pro although I think it might be an 9700 All In Wonder card -- with a ViewSonic A90f+ running at 1152 X 864 and 'millions of colors'.
I decided to 'shut down' the machine and turn it on again and see if that would help (that is, remove the flickering). This gave me a scare for a few moments because suddenly there was no output at all to my monitor! No BIOS messages...no Grub menu...just a steadily glowing 'power' LED. I pressed the system 'reset' button once with the same effect. I tried it again after turning the monitor off and then on and that restored my video output! After a successful reboot, the flickering problem did go away. But while checking my display settings, I brought up Applications --> System Settings --> Display and that restarted the flickering.
Bob Cochran Greenbelt, Maryland, USA
I forgot to mention this is for the x86_64 arch.
Bob
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Robert L Cochran