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> VESA might be the right tree to be barking up according to
> http://www.seul.org/archives/independence-l/Aug-1999/msg00178.html which
> describes a problem with banked VGA write combining:

So my next source of investigation would be whether the consolve
video driver is switching to this mode in order to do the graphical
screen saver then ? AS the monitor is turned off most of the time
anyway then I might just disable the screen saved and see if that cures
the problem. If so then thats fine.

> Hope this helps,

Indeed itdoes, thankyou,

-pcf.

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