Comment 8 for bug 756818

The Sansui monitor trial reminded me that there are other outcomes beside the freezing and repeating pattern of dots. This trial set ALMOST worked from the trials of the LIVE disks of Unity, GNOME, KDE Plasma, and Cinnamon desktops, but random patterns made the display still unusable. The graphics did not freeze, and the nVidia proprietary driver may have worked, did not try in this set of trials. The other outcome which happened on Unity, GNOME/GNOME Classic and Cinnamon was to have yellow and white on white background for the screen text and other graphic elements, rendering most text onscreen unusable. BTW, the Sansui SLED2900I model was capable of 1280x1024.

I tried Ubuntu 14.04 for Unity. Xubuntu 14.04 & 14.10 worked fine, as is PCLinuxOS LXDE.

Next test would be to check using the nVidia proprietary driver and/or installed system.