Graphics Diag Query

2010-02-22 Thread Jack Schneider
Hi, All Does any one know of a diagnostic tool to pin down a smeared LCD screen? I have an old laptop i386, running lenny, up2date, 2.6.26-2-486 kernel, which I want to take the load as a parallel-port printer host. It runs a Neomagic NM2093 video chip. I have checked the LCD display with

Re: Graphics Diag Query

2010-02-22 Thread Stephen Powell
On Mon, 22 Feb 2010 13:06:41 -0500 (EST), Jack Schneider wrote: Hi, All Does any one know of a diagnostic tool to pin down a smeared LCD screen? I have an old laptop i386, running lenny, up2date, 2.6.26-2-486 kernel, which I want to take the load as a parallel-port printer host. It runs a

Re: Graphics Diag Query

2010-02-22 Thread Jack Schneider
On Mon, 22 Feb 2010 13:51:09 -0500 (EST) Stephen Powell zlinux...@wowway.com wrote: On Mon, 22 Feb 2010 13:06:41 -0500 (EST), Jack Schneider wrote: Hi, All Does any one know of a diagnostic tool to pin down a smeared LCD screen? I have an old laptop i386, running lenny, up2date,

Re: Graphics Diag Query

2010-02-22 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
A very simplistic approach would be to hook a different LCD monitor to the same machine to see if the results reproduce. Although I am guessing you would have tried this if you had one handy... On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 2:43 PM, Jack Schneider p...@dp-indexing.com wrote: On Mon, 22 Feb 2010

Re: Graphics Diag Query

2010-02-22 Thread Stephen Powell
On Mon, 22 Feb 2010 14:43:07 -0500 (EST), Jack Schneider wrote: Stephen, thanks for the reply...8-) I want to find out if the color distortions (smears on left side of images) I see on the LCD are due to a faulty LCD or faulty graphics chip. I want to know if there is a diagnostic to help

Re: Graphics Diag Query

2010-02-22 Thread Jack Schneider
On Mon, 22 Feb 2010 15:10:18 -0500 (EST) Stephen Powell zlinux...@wowway.com wrote: On Mon, 22 Feb 2010 14:43:07 -0500 (EST), Jack Schneider wrote: Stephen, thanks for the reply...8-) I want to find out if the color distortions (smears on left side of images) I see on the LCD are due to a