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On Fri, 2 May 2003, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
<snip>
> > I've had this happen if the frequencies chosen for my monitor in
> > xf86config are not exactly correct.
> 
> Was it also the night before the full moon?  There are all sorts of
> coincidences.  But the monitor frequency doesn't have anything to do
> with this problem.
> 
> Greg

Agreed, they seem to be unrelated. But on my old K6-2 550, it's a 
repeatable glitch with my monitor and X set to too high a vertical 
sync rate and a PS2 mouse. Not sure about the moon that night ;-) 

Perhaps it was resource-related, but choosing a lower frequency solved it.

JB

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