delta charlie Posted May 13, 2007 Report Share Posted May 13, 2007 Hi all, I have a fresh install of Mandriva Spring 2007 on a AMD 64 computer. Every 10 minutes I get a strange screen flicker/jump. I also hear a noise from the computer much like the sound you would get when a computer goes into sleep mode. Maybe a service or process that is getting called every 10 minutes but is not working correct? Any ideas? Thanks, DC Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kieth Posted May 13, 2007 Report Share Posted May 13, 2007 I'm also having the same problem. I was thinking my monitor was going out. Here's my system. # uname -a Linux localhost 2.6.17-14mdv #1 SMP Wed May 9 21:11:43 MDT 2007 i686 AMD Athlon 64 Processor 3000+ GNU/Linux Video card: Radeon 9200 Kieth Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaraeez Posted May 13, 2007 Report Share Posted May 13, 2007 Hey.. well I would always check /var/log/messages for any error messages/clues? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
delta charlie Posted May 14, 2007 Author Report Share Posted May 14, 2007 Hey.. well I would always check /var/log/messages for any error messages/clues? Thanks for the reply, I put a stop watch on the jump and it would happen every 10 min on the dot. The messages log did show some type of ACPI error so I went into the BIOS and found that the ACPI was set to OS aware and power management was set to 10 min. Will post back if the jump goes away. DC Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
delta charlie Posted May 15, 2007 Author Report Share Posted May 15, 2007 The computer has been on for over an hour and the jump is gone. Looks like it had something to do with the ACPI and power settings in the BIOS. I believe this computer has a faulty ACPI as it has not worked correctly with other OS. Got to run, DC Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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