X.org Keeps Dying Out Of The Blue

[Brian Mury]

On Wed, 2008-01-23 at 00:37 +1030, Tim wrote:
> The both of you may be running your monitor close to the threshold of
> its limits (whether that's the designed limits, or limits that have
> changed as the monitor has aged).  

Since the appearance of this problem exactly coincides with the switch
from F7 to F8, and the screen mode is the same, I think it's quite
unlikely that it is the hardware.

> If you can try a
> different screen mode for a while, and see if the problem goes away,
> that tends to confirm it.  One solution may be to play with some xorg
> tweaking tools that let you *slightly* adjust the scan rates your card
> outputs.

Thanks for the suggestion, I'll give it a try as part of my
troubleshooting.