On Fri, 9 May 2008 at 1:34pm -0000, Grant Edwards wrote:

> I recently tried switching from linux-2.6.23-gentoo-r9 to
> linux-2.6.24-gentoo-r7. The latter is configured as
> indentically as possible to the former, but when I run X under
> the 2.6.24 kernel, one of my two displays blinks off every
> 10-20 seconds (it's off for about 1 second, then comes back
> on).
>
> The blinking doesn't happen with the 2.6.23 kernel.
>
> The blinking doesn't happen in console mode.
>
> I'm running nvidia-drivers 169.09-r1 with a NVIDIA GPU Quadro
> NVS 290 (G86GL), connected via DVI to dual Samsung 204B
> displays running at 1600x1200.
>
> There's nothing in the system or X logs that conicides with the
> blinking.

What's the output of dmesg while this is happening?

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