In article <p-lefebvre-731BEB.20071303082003[at]reader1.news.rcn.net>,
Phil Lefebvre <p-lefebvre[at]GOnorthwestern.edu> wrote:

> I have a 23" Apple Cinema Display LCD and a 17" Apple ColorSync CRT
> attached to the stock ATi Radeon 9000 AGP card and an ATi Radeon 7000
> PCI card respectively, in my G4/Dual 1 GHz running OS X 10.2.6.
>
> A while back, sometimes after waking from sleep the ColorSync would only
> come up at about half brightness. I assumed it meant the 5 y.o. CRT was
> about to meet its maker, but I freaked when the the LCD started doing
> the same thing. Then I found that messing with any of the video settings
> would restore one or the other to full normal brightness.
>
> Has anyone seen this before, and/or have a suggestion as how to fix it
> permanently?
>
> Thanks.

There may be a fix for this, but if there isn't one documented at
apple.com, assume it's a bug that needs to be reported.

There have been a lot of issues (bugs) that have come up involving
sleeping/waking, and anything involving the display or OpenGL, et al.
When they fix one, another pops up. I won't comment on why, but be
assured that it's not you, it's them, and they need to get their shit
together on this.

Make sure to include a full description of the problem that someone
else can easily reproduce, and a full Apple System Profiler Report. If
you can reproduce the problem under a simpler configuration, it would
be better; the bug will languish until somebody duplicates your setup.

In article <040820031125258460%Forget[at]forget.com>,
Mikey <Forget[at]forget.com> wrote:

> In article <p-lefebvre-731BEB.20071303082003[at]reader1.news.rcn.net>,
> Phil Lefebvre <p-lefebvre[at]GOnorthwestern.edu> wrote:
>
> > I have a 23" Apple Cinema Display LCD and a 17" Apple ColorSync CRT
> > attached to the stock ATi Radeon 9000 AGP card and an ATi Radeon 7000
> > PCI card respectively, in my G4/Dual 1 GHz running OS X 10.2.6.
> >
> > A while back, sometimes after waking from sleep the ColorSync would only
> > come up at about half brightness. I assumed it meant the 5 y.o. CRT was
> > about to meet its maker, but I freaked when the the LCD started doing
> > the same thing. Then I found that messing with any of the video settings
> > would restore one or the other to full normal brightness.
> >
> > Has anyone seen this before, and/or have a suggestion as how to fix it
> > permanently?
> >
> > Thanks.
>
> There may be a fix for this, but if there isn't one documented at
> apple.com, assume it's a bug that needs to be reported.
>
> There have been a lot of issues (bugs) that have come up involving
> sleeping/waking, and anything involving the display or OpenGL, et al.
> When they fix one, another pops up. I won't comment on why, but be
> assured that it's not you, it's them, and they need to get their shit
> together on this.

Agreed.

> Make sure to include a full description of the problem that someone
> else can easily reproduce, and a full Apple System Profiler Report. If
> you can reproduce the problem under a simpler configuration, it would
> be better; the bug will languish until somebody duplicates your setup.

Agreed, but the problem isn't consistently reproducible. The LCD came up
dim 4 times over the weekend, and not once since. ColorSync is no
better. I guess I'll start keeping detailed notes. Meanwhile, glad to
have the Monitors menulet available.

Thanks.

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