Static displays only on main monitor
I have a brand new 2.93 GHz 6 Core Mac Pro with an ATI Radeon HD 5870 graphic card with three 30" Apple Cinema displays connected (using Apples Mini DisplayPort to Dual-Link DVI Adapters).
On a several occasions the monitor (bought about a month ago) designated as the main (by the menu bar) has flickered a few times and then that monitor fills with static... I can still see the desktop through the static, the mouse and keyboard works fine on the monitor, after a several minutes the static flickers out and that monitor is back to normal, or if I put the monitors to sleep that monitor will return to normal.... the other two monitors remain static free during these incidents... I have tried switching the monitors between the mini display ports and the dual-link port but I still get the static display on the monitor... I'll also try using a different monitor as main.....
Dud monitor or dud graphics card?
Has anyone else noticed similar problem with the new Mac Pro with the ATI Radeon HD 5870?
It's a bug in 10.5.6. What you should do is make export a copy of your photos that you want displayed from iPhoto to a folder. Put that folder wherever you want, probably ~/Pictures
Then tell the screen saver app to pull the images from there and it will work again on both of your displays. Very annoying.
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