The same monitor works great when being driven by windows. In my case I'm using different systems for linux and windows, so it could be a video card thing, but the card worked fine before I switched the system to linux.
The effect I have is one where there's almost a shadow image overlaid on the real image - you can't really see it unless you look at an "edge" where the intensity of the picture changes - for example, the transition from a light desktop background to a dark xterm window. About 3 millimeters from the edge, you see a phantom edge where everything is a little lighter. It's sort of like someone took a screenshot in the gimp, duplicated the original layer, then moved the new layer a few pixels to the right overlaid it on the using one of the methods that only affects signal intensity.
FWIW, I've had the same problem several times in the past and have always wanted to discover the fix, but so far no luck...
-- Trever
D. Rick Anderson wrote:
Man I wish it was something as simple as anti-aliasing.
I tried my little 15" Sony on here, and it looks nice and sharp. I just don't really want to work on that 15" all day.
What's getting my goat is if I boot into windows 2000 it looks great!
It's only in linux that it looks like this, which is what led me to
think that it had to be a refresh problem or something. I know that
Shamrock made really cheap monitors, but I really don't have the money
to fork out for another 19", and besides, if it's working in Microshaft
Windblows then there must be a way to get it to work in X.
I ran ddcprobe and the values I got were: H: 30 - 95 V: 47 - 130
so that's what I set it to in the configuration, but it didn't change anything.
Thanks for your reply, I'll keep tinkering.
Rick
On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 11:13, Mark Vojkovich wrote:
On 10 Mar 2003, D. Rick Anderson wrote:
I'm having a strange problem with my monitor. In linux (RH 8.0) it is just 'slightly' blurry. Not so blurry as to make it impossible to read, but blurry enough that if I code here for more than 20 minutes or so, my head is pounding from eye strain. If I boot up into windblows 2000 it's nice and crisp using the same resolution (1024 x 768). Any ideas how to fix this? I've tried all kinds of refresh rates to no avail. I even tried 800 x 600 (eeek), but it was blurry there as well. Here's my config: RedHat 8.0 (haven't upgraded anything until I figure this out so it's all distro defaults) GeForce 2 MX 400 (Also tried a PCI ATI Xpert 128 with same result) Shamrock C903P5 19" monitor.
it HAS to be something in the monitor settings. I tried this before with RedHat 7.2 and 7.3 on a machine with an Intel 810 (I think), but ended up going back to 2000. Well I've decided that I'm NEVER using another MS product, so I have to figure this out now.
Any ideas or insight would be greatly appreciated.
Assuming by "blurry" you aren't saying that the fonts are anti- aliased. Some people consider that a feature.
It really just sounds like a bad monitor or cable. Are you sure the refresh rate isn't too high? At the same resolution higher refresh rates will look fuzzier.
Mark.
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