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.