A *really* easy way to determine if this is videocard or monitor, without having to swap any parts is to take a screenshot of the offending part of the screen. If the shadows appear in the screen shot, then its the videocard. If they don't appear, its the monitor.
BTW, my money is on the monitor. --- Joel Hammer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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? ===== ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lonni J. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Step-by-step help: http://netllama.ipfox.com . __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Sports - sign up for Fantasy Baseball http://sports.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
