Previously, Andrew Mathews chose to write: > Joel Hammer wrote: > > Suddenly, I am getting shadows on my screen. > > In a xterm window, each line with text has a faint dark band going > > across the entire line. This also appears in html documents while > > web surfing. > > > > I have played with my monitor settings, but the lines won't go away. > > Question? Is this failing hardware? Is this likely the monitor going > > bad or the video card? > > > > Joel > > > > _______________________________________________ > > I had a video card go bad on one of my machines that caused a very > similar problem. Banding and shadowing on every screen. Replacing the > card fixed the problem. I'd try the monitor on a different machine if > possible, see if the problem follows the monitor. If not, I'd say the > card is the problem.
I just got back from my brother's house troubleshooting the same problem. I plugged in a known good monitor and the banding/shadowing still happened. Sounds to me like it's the video card. He's got a generic Nvidia FWIW. Tim -- Caldera eWorkstation 3.1, kernel 2.4.9, KDE 2.2.1, Xfree86 4.1.0 12:00pm up 4 days, 13:47, 7 users, load average: 0.05, 0.14, 0.10 It's what you learn AFTER you know it all that counts _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
