Date: Fri, 02 Oct 1998 06:38:26 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Kees Jan Koster <dutchman@tccn.cs.kun.nl> Cc: FreeBSD Hardware List <freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Phillips Brilliance 107 Message-ID: <199810021338.GAA02334@word.smith.net.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 02 Oct 1998 09:53:27 -0000." <3614A28C.41C67EA6@tccn.cs.kun.nl>
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> Dear FreeBSD hardware hackers, > > I recently accuired a new monitor for my PC, a Brilliance 107 from > Philips. It's worth mentioning that these are not the greatest monitors around, especially if you have a B or C grade unit. > As I was flipping through the manual I found a rather odd > statement in the troubleshooting section. I quote: > > Problem: Picture has a double image. > Solution: (...) > Face the monitor East for best picture quality. > > Could anyone shed some light on this issue? (Preferably from the East). It doesn't matter where you are, only where you're facing. It has to do with the orientation of the Earth's magnetic field, and east only works in the northern hemisphere. The goal is to have the field lines perpendicular to the plane of the screen; if you're facing eg. North they come through at an angle > On a more serious note. I was told that the Moire menu option in the OSD > could be used to eliminate the interference patterns I see on the xdm > login screen. Could anyone tell me how to use it? When I turn up either > horizontal or vertical Moire, I just get a fuzzy image, and the patterns > do not disappear. The Moire adjustent is rarely good enough to give you that sort of accuracy. Better to change the xdm background if you can't handle it. > One more question (then I'll let you go). When I more xterms about on > the X11 desktop, I get little flashes of white snow on the darker > portions of the screen. They only show up when I move windows. What is > that? Is that a monitor problem, an X server problem (XFree86 Version > 3.3.2.3, SVGA), or a video card (Diamond Viper V330) problem? It's an interaction between your card and the driver, and unless the snow stays once you stop moving windows, it's harmless. You can probably reduce it or make it go away at the cost of some speed by fiddling with the driver settings. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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