Screen flicker on F8 and GNOME

[Mauricio Pretto]

Check if you dont have the visual system beep enabled in the sound
preferences.

Pretto
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MauricioPretto




Aravind Seshadri wrote:
> With Fedora 8 and GNOME I see screen flicker. The screen does not
> flicker always but happens during certain events. Like for example 
>
> (1) if I type a command in Terminal and press tab to auto complete the
> command, the screen flickers. Or when I press backspace without anything
> typed in the command line.
>
> (2) in gedit (or System log viewer) when I am at the end of the file and
> when I press the down arrow or when I press the page down button.
>
> (3) when new mail arrives in Evolution. I have a mail notification setup
> and whenever a new mail arrives the screen flickers.
>
> (4) pressing backspace in an empty text filed (in Evolution To, Cc, Bcc
> and subject filed also in Run Application text field etc.)
>
> It seems like the screen flicker occurs only in GNOME. I installed Xfce
> and I did not encounter this behavior. Does not look like a graphics
> card problem since it happens only when these events are triggered and
> also I did not see this in Fedora 7 or in Fedora Core 6 on this same
> computer.
>
> Anyone know what might be going wrong?
>
>