I bought a Dell Vostro 200 slim line a few weeks back and installed Centos 5.1 and mythtv-0.20.2-171.el5. Everything works fine except for a couple of graphics annoyances that seem to happen at random. Every now and then the screen would blank and at other times, the screen resolution decreases somewhat such that the video looks more interlaced and the text unreadable. If I hibernate and wake up the system, the problem goes away. I have dpms disabled in xorg.conf and have xset -dpms s off in Gnome -> Sessions -> Startup Programs. xset -q reports:<br>
<br>Screen Saver:<br> prefer blanking: yes allow exposures: yes<br> timeout: 0 cycle: 0<br>Colors:<br> default colormap: 0x20 BlackPixel: 0 WhitePixel: 16777215<br>Font Path:<br> unix/:7100<br>Bug Mode: compatibility mode is disabled<br>
DPMS (Energy Star):<br> Standby: 0 Suspend: 0 Off: 0<br> DPMS is Disabled<br><br>I am using an nvidia card 7300 LE low profile with svideo tv out. I have a KVM hooked up to the VGA port and a 32 inch tv connected to the tv out which is my primary display. <br>
<br>By the way, hibernate is such a neat feature. I could pause live TV and hibernate the machine. When I wake it up, I can unpause the live TV and continue where I left off. However, If I am behind hours of live TV, the fast forward and rewind dont seem to work. <br>
Also I wish there is a way to wake up the machine with the Streamzap remote.<br><br><br>Thanks for any insight you can provide<br>Chris<br><br>