Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1998 17:08:23 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Jan Koum <jkb@best.com> Cc: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net>, FreeBSD-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Summary: shopping for new video adapter Message-ID: <19980408170823.30495@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980408001307.20037B-100000@shell6.ba.best.com>; from Jan Koum on Wed, Apr 08, 1998 at 12:25:09AM -0700 References: <19980408150849.45215@freebie.lemis.com> <Pine.BSF.3.96.980408001307.20037B-100000@shell6.ba.best.com>
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On Wed, 8 April 1998 at 0:25:09 -0700, Jan Koum wrote: > On Wed, 8 Apr 1998, Greg Lehey wrote: > >> Ah, your requirements are different. I currently have a 17" on the >> floor below the desk to my left, but I only turn it on if the system >> it is connected to feels unhappy. Otherwise I have the 2 21" monitors >> side by side, and I wouldn't want to spread them. The only > > Wait. You don't have any distortion on the screen from having two > huge monitors so close to each other? No. > At work I have a 21" on FreeBSD and 19" on Sparc and I have to keep > them at least 3 feet a part or else the screen on one (or both) > start to "jiggle" (shake). I used to have that with some older monitors, but I tuned it out with judicious adjustment of the scan frequencies. > While we are talking monitors. An odd problem I run into with my > BSD machine. It is a Dell PII 266 with Matrox Millennium II AGP card. It is > connected to the 21" Gateway Vivitron monitor. When I run 4.1 AccelX, I > get a little yellow spot (about 2x2 inches) in the top left corner. Don't > think it is AccelX since even though it is hard to see in the normal tty, > the yellow cloud is still there. I'll try using vidcontrol next time to be > sure. I tried changing the monitor withe same one -- still there. I tried > changing the monitor cable -- still there. I switched from normal DB cable > to BNC type connector -- still there. Could it be the card?!? I'd guess it's overheating. Is it there after the screen blanker has been on for a while? Try turning down the intensity and see if it goes away. Greg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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