I recently purchased a Cornerstone 45/101sf 19" monitor through Onsale, and I am running it on my SuSE Linux 6.0 system. I am using a video card with an S3 Virge/DX chip, a 170MHz RAMDAC and 8MB of memory. I run X Window using the XFree86 XF86_SVGA X server. The computer itself is home-assembled from bits, and it has an AMD K-6 200MHz CPU with 48MB of RAM. The problem I am having with the monitor is that depending on the image displayed, it shows vertical pin-striping with the stripes approximately 0.25cm apart. The effect shows most prominently on patterned backgrounds and pictures, but is also visible in the icons displayed on the desktop (I am currently using KDE). With black text on a white background, the effect manifests itself as a shift in part of the letters, giving a the text a "smudged" look. Mahjong tiles appear unfocused. I thought this might be a vertical moire problem, and so I followed the procedure in the User's Manual to correct a vertically moired image. That had no corrective effect that I could discern. I also tried degaussing, but that also had no effect. I checked the Cornerstone web site, but I did not see anything there that pertained my particular problem. I also wrote an email to Cornerstone asking for assistance. Cornerstone's (predictable) answer was that none of their products have been tested with Linux, and I should try the monitor out on a Windows98 system. They sent me the drivers I would need, but since I don't have a Windows98 system here to test it on, it doesn't get me much further. So, I am wondering if anyone here has any experience with Linux, XFree86 and large monitors. Could it be my video card? Should I have a card with a higher RAMDAC? I haven't really tested this at lower resolutions, so I know I should try that. Other than that, what do you all think? Best regards, Sean T. Sean (Theo) Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] Overheard in the Deep Ops Planning Cell: "Yeah, but remember, Custer *died* in a 'target-rich environment'!"
