On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 07:53:36PM +0200, shlomo solomon wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just replaced my monitor with a Proview DX997 19 inch and I have a
> distortion about 1 centimeter wide all along the top of the screen. Any
> window I move up to the top of the screen shows a distorted upper frame. I'm
> quite sure it's an X problem because:
>
> 1 - no problem in the text screen (Ctrl-Alt-F1)
> 2 - No problem while booting (the Mandrake graphical boot screen looks OK)
> 3 - no problem in Win98 (I hated to do it, but I booted Win98 to test the
> monitor).
> 4 - The problem is in both KDE and Gnome (so my guess is that the underlying X
> is the problem).
>
> I was running 1024 x 768 on the old monitor. The new monitor supports
> resolutions up to 1600 x 1200. I tried all the possible resolutions, but this
> didn't make any difference.
>
> My box is MDK 9.0, kernel 2.4.19-24mdk, XFree86 4.2.1, KDE 3.0.5a.
>
> Has anyone seen a similar problem and/or know what to do about it?
Try playing with xvidtune. Try pressing "Shorter", "Down", "Test",
"Apply", a few times each in a loop, not necessarily in that order.
If/When you get a good picture, press "Show", and add the modeline
to your XF86Config (probably /etc/X11/XF86Config-4).
Didi
>
> TIA
>
> --
> Shlomo Solomon
> http://come.to/shlomo.solomon
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