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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
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