Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 10:04:47 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Monitor "streaking" ... Message-ID: <20010710100447.C64441@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0106272128030.452-100000@mobile.hub.org>; from scrappy@hub.org on Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 09:21:01PM -0300 References: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0106272128030.452-100000@mobile.hub.org>
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On Monday, 9 July 2001 at 21:21:01 -0300, The Hermit Hacker wrote: > > For lack of a better word ... I have a Samtron 19" monitor with an NVidia > video card (GeForce2, I think) ... in X, I'm getting a weird "streaking" > effect I've never seen before ... if I open up a 'grey' background xterm, > of, say, half the width of the screen, the grey seems to saturate to the > left/right of the xterm, darkening it ... if I do white, it seems to do > the opposite, lighten it ... > > I'm figuring its hardware related, but figured I'd check to see if it > rings somethign with others before I start replacing hardware :( It could be an impedance mismatch. I had this with an old Nanao monitor which had switches which added a 75 ohm resistor at the end of the cable. It could also be a defective power supply. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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