On Sat, 19 Jun 1999, Steve translated thoughts to electrons: > On the Mandrake 6.0 gui, the desktop ripples. Waves seem to be moving > from the upper righthand corner to the lower left hand corner. I don't > see the same thing on this monitor screen when I switch over to Win95. > Have I set something wrong? > This is a Sony Multiscan 200ES, 17". Vertical scan range is 50-120Hz, > horizontal scan range is 30-70khz. > Maximum resolution is 1280x1024@60hz or 1024x768@85hz/ > In Xconfigurator, I found a Sony CDT 200es and picked that. Later, > after the waves started, I went back to Xconfigurator and selected the > custom option. I entered > the values given above. > What should I do? Any ideas? > steve w This is a visual effect called 'moire', and is well known (and hated) by us at the publishing industry. It is caused by a misaligning of the dot arrays on the scanned picture (your background), and the dot array in your monitor. If your background is a scanned image, this is almost impossible to correct, try to get another image scan. But if this is with all of the image, my suggestion would be that you try to use a slightly worse value to your monitor, like 1024x768 at 60hz and tell us what happens. Usually the difference is very hard to notice on a standard machine that uses standard graphics works (ie. good enough for web-quality graphics and standard printing jobs, although maybe not good enough for profesional publishing-industry work) -- _______________________________ Jose Alberto Abreu Executive Editor Plan B Mystical Enterprises _______________________________ "Do or do not... fuckup you can if you try..." -attributed to Jedi Master Yoda =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Get Your Own Free Pop or Web Based Email and a 10MB Web Site for FREE at: http://www.nettaxi.com! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
