Activity monitor shows CPU running at 100% all the time....

2013-09-26 Thread spilrules
Recently I noticed the fan running at full speed for quite some time on my G4 powerbook 12 1.33 mhz which I thought was unusual as it did not seem to run very long in the past. I checked the activity monitor under utilities and discovered that the CPU was running at 100% all the time

Re: Activity monitor shows CPU running at 100% all the time....

2013-09-26 Thread Peter Devlin
On 25/09/2013 13:54, spilrules t...@tomstock.us wrote: Recently I noticed the fan running at full speed for quite some time on my G4 powerbook 12 1.33 mhz which I thought was unusual as it did not seem to run very long in the past. I checked the activity monitor under utilities and discovered

Re: Activity monitor shows CPU running at 100% all the time....

2013-09-26 Thread Valter Prahlad
Il giorno 25/09/13 14.54, spilrules ha scritto: Recently I noticed the fan running at full speed for quite some time on my G4 powerbook 12 1.33 mhz which I thought was unusual as it did not seem to run very long in the past. I checked the activity monitor under utilities and discovered

Re: Activity monitor shows CPU running at 100% all the time....

2013-09-26 Thread Valter Prahlad
Il giorno 25/09/13 14.54, spilrules ha scritto: Recently I noticed the fan running at full speed for quite some time on my G4 powerbook 12 1.33 mhz which I thought was unusual as it did not seem to run very long in the past. I checked the activity monitor under utilities and discovered

Monitor traveling band flicker

2012-12-06 Thread JohnV
G5 1.8 dual running 10.4.11. 2 monitors DELL wide and a Westinghouse 1.33 It's all ben real stable but today I see that teh square Westinghouse monitor has very slight repeating lighter and darker horizontal 1' bands that slowly drift from top to bottom with a little bit of a flicker

Re: Monitor traveling band flicker

2012-12-06 Thread Valter Prahlad
It's all ben real stable but today I see that teh square Westinghouse monitor has very slight repeating lighter and darker horizontal 1' bands that slowly drift from top to bottom with a little bit of a flicker to them. Is it an CRT or LCD monitor? The problem you talk about, reminds me

Re: Monitor traveling band flicker

2012-12-06 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Dec 6, 2012, at 1:15 PM, JohnV vengbj...@verizon.net wrote: G5 1.8 dual running 10.4.11. 2 monitors DELL wide and a Westinghouse 1.33 It's all ben real stable but today I see that teh square Westinghouse monitor has very slight repeating lighter and darker horizontal 1' bands

Re: Monitor traveling band flicker

2012-12-06 Thread Clark Martin
Sent from an iPhone, don't ask whose. On Dec 6, 2012, at 12:15 PM, JohnV vengbj...@verizon.net wrote: G5 1.8 dual running 10.4.11. 2 monitors DELL wide and a Westinghouse 1.33 It's all ben real stable but today I see that teh square Westinghouse monitor has very slight repeating lighter

Re: Can’t adjust brightness on ADC monitor

2012-10-21 Thread Geke
up when pressed, but no dialog box appears. Anyway, no new prefs file was created until I changed the profile of a monitor, which gives me the feeling these display prefs are not involved with this error. Maybe it's hardware, after all? Or the system software? I really don't know. I guess

Can’t adjust brightness on ADC monitor

2012-10-12 Thread Geke
I have two monitors on a PowerMac G4 (dual 500MHz): one is a Viewsonic on DVI, the other an Apple Studio 17 on ADC. Is it normal that I can’t adjust the brightness on the Apple monitor now? There’s no slider for it in the screen’s preferences, and pressing the button on the screen frame doesn’t

Re: Can’t adjust brightness on ADC monitor

2012-10-12 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Oct 12, 2012, at 9:42 AM, Geke wrote: I have two monitors on a PowerMac G4 (dual 500MHz): one is a Viewsonic on DVI, the other an Apple Studio 17 on ADC. Is it normal that I can’t adjust the brightness on the Apple monitor now? Now implies something has changed...what is it? Do you get

G5 monitor extensions

2012-08-30 Thread JohnV
I want to have the G5 moved a ways away from where I want to have the 2 monitors for work. Am I looking at DVI-D dual link cables for this? What is the limit for length? I can see wanting to run these around the corner involving 25' or more if that's workable. John V -- You received this

Re: G5 monitor extensions

2012-08-30 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Aug 28, 2012, at 12:51 PM, JohnV wrote: I want to have the G5 moved a ways away from where I want to have the 2 monitors for work. Am I looking at DVI-D dual link cables for this? What is the limit for length? I can see wanting to run these around the corner involving 25' or more if

Re: Studio Display Monitor Broken Hinge

2012-03-05 Thread Roger Faulkner
the monitor bottom to nestle in the holder while the back adjustable leg gave stability. You might find something like this at a local art supply retail store. If you find the right fit you might think about mounting it on a wall -- saves desk space. Good luck. -RF On Sun, Mar 4, 2012 at 9:00 PM, glen

Re: Studio Display Monitor Broken Hinge

2012-03-05 Thread Charles Lenington
On 3/5/12 12:34 AM, Brian Fuelleman wrote: You might put in an ad in your local Pennysaver or local newspaper/want ad paper for a monitor, working or not, then you could swap out the stand. Another option might be going to a local art supply store and look at a Sidekick easel. They clamp

Re: Studio Display Monitor Broken Hinge

2012-03-05 Thread Richard Gerome
om> Subject: Studio Display Monitor Broken Hinge This little Apple Studio Display M2454 monitor has seen light use and has a lot of life left. It has been attached to my Mac G4's for testing purposes. In a really dumb move I broke the acrylic stand connection to the monitor. I tried to super glue

Re: Studio Display Monitor Broken Hinge

2012-03-05 Thread Richard Gerome
After looking at the picture of where it broke my idea about JB Weld probably won't work?-Original Message- From: Charles Lenington <macso...@brightok.net> Sent: Mar 5, 2012 2:53 AM To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Studio Display Monitor Broken Hinge

Re: Studio Display Monitor Broken Hinge

2012-03-05 Thread glen
From: Richard Gerome onecoolka...@earthlink.net      After looking at the picture of where it broke my idea about JB Weld probably won't work? From: glen glenst...@yahoo.com This little Apple Studio Display M2454 monitor has

Studio Display Monitor Broken Hinge

2012-03-04 Thread glen
This little Apple Studio Display M2454 monitor has seen light use and has a lot of life left. It has been attached to my Mac G4's for testing purposes. In a really dumb move I broke the acrylic stand connection to the monitor. I tried to super glue it together but as you may guess that did

Re: Studio Display Monitor Broken Hinge

2012-03-04 Thread Brian Fuelleman
You might put in an ad in your local Pennysaver or local newspaper/want ad paper for a monitor, working or not, then you could swap out the stand.   Another option might be going to a local art supply store and look at a Sidekick easel.  They clamp on to the edge of a table or desk, and let you

Re: Old Mac monitor?

2012-01-06 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Jan 2, 2012, at 3:20 PM, John Callahan wrote: I have an old Mac monitor that is called a Mac IIe on its shipping carton. I used it about twenty years ago with a Mac IIse. Is anyone familiar with that monitor model? Well, there never was a 'Mac IIse' You're thinking of a Mac IIsi

Re: Old Mac monitor?

2012-01-06 Thread Illirik Smirnov
Callahan wrote: I have an old Mac monitor that is called a Mac IIe on its shipping carton. I used it about twenty years ago with a Mac IIse. Is anyone familiar with that monitor model? Well, there never was a 'Mac IIse' You're thinking of a Mac IIsi perhaps? An old Mac-compatible monitor

Monitor Madness

2011-11-23 Thread JohnV
PPC G5 tower. osx 10.4.11 no problems This morning, right now, the image on screen is bizarre... If a finder window comes up, I can see though the text and if I move the window around, elements of the pixel image stay put -AND- move -AND leave trails and the window bevocomes oddly

Re: Monitor Madness

2011-11-23 Thread Dan
At 12:17 PM -0500 11/23/2011, JohnV wrote: PPC G5 tower. osx 10.4.11 no problems This morning, right now, the image on screen is bizarre... If a finder window comes up, I can see though the text and if I move the window around, elements of the pixel image stay put -AND- move -AND leave

Re: Monitor Madness

2011-11-23 Thread JohnV
thanks Dan. just reset the PRAM and pulled the power cord on the box for 60sec. no joy. this machine -was- physically MOVED for the first time in years, over the weekend. From wha you;re reccomending and what little I found on line about this symptom, the 'resaet connections thing resonates.

Re: Monitor Madness

2011-11-23 Thread JohnV
re-seating the PRam didn;t change anything. shut it all down, disconnected and reconnected the monitor connections. tried 3 times to boot in SAFE (hold-shift-on-boot) mode. first two hung on Empty Blue-gray Screen 3rd got me up and looking ok. not my screen-color-balance preference

Re: Monitor Madness

2011-11-23 Thread Dan
At 12:54 PM -0500 11/23/2011, JohnV wrote: though how do I reseat EVERYTHING inside teh tower? Keep it simple. One thing at a time. Just reseat the video card. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a

Re: Monitor Madness

2011-11-23 Thread JohnV
will do... thanks John (Keepin Simple) Vengrouskie On Nov 23, 2011, at 1:25 PM, Dan wrote: At 12:54 PM -0500 11/23/2011, JohnV wrote: though how do I reseat EVERYTHING inside teh tower? Keep it simple. One thing at a time. Just reseat the video card. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic

Re: G5 monitor fails to fire

2011-05-12 Thread pdimage
On 11/05/2011 21:59, blindspot-smi...@yahoo.co.uk blindspot-smi...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: The monitor will eventually fire up - might take two, three, four G5 power-ups, might have to leave it for hours and just sometimes it might come on immediately. Haven't successfully powered

Re: G5 monitor fails to fire

2011-05-12 Thread Kris Tilford
On May 12, 2011, at 2:22 AM, pdimage wrote: Sounds like a bad dvi/vga adapter - have you checked for bent pins on it? - try a different adapter. Cable pins can be bent too causing intermittent contact. I agree, the adapter (or cable) seems a likely culprit. It seems like a DVI/DVI cable

G5 monitor fails to fire

2011-05-11 Thread ag
My DP G5 running OSX 4.11 fails to wake up the monitor on start up. Monitor at the moment is a Dell flat panel but it was the same with my old Apple studio monitor. G5 chimes happily but monitor's amber light stays amber and fails to go green. I use a DVI/VGA connector, and linking my G4

Re: G5 monitor fails to fire

2011-05-11 Thread Dan
At 12:22 PM +0100 5/11/2011, ag wrote: DP G5 running OSX 4.11 fails to wake up the monitor on start up. Monitor at the moment is a Dell flat panel but it was the same with my old Apple studio monitor. Ok. So it's not the display. G5 chimes happily but monitor's amber light stays amber

Re: G5 monitor fails to fire

2011-05-11 Thread Kris Tilford
finally works correctly? Have you done a Safe Boot (hold the Shift key at startup)? I use a DVI/VGA connector, and linking my G4 powerbook to the monitor fires it up each time so the monitor is fine. I'm assuming you're using a DVI/DVI cable from the G5 to the display? The DVI/VGA

Re: G5 monitor fails to fire

2011-05-11 Thread blindspot8888-smiths
Yes, Kris Just to make it clear, taking into account your remarks. The monitor will eventually fire up - might take two, three, four G5 power-ups, might have to leave it for hours and just sometimes it might come on immediately. Haven't successfully powered up in safe mode because you have

Re: G5 monitor fails to fire

2011-05-11 Thread Alex Barnes
Have you checked the monitor cable? On May 11, 2011, at 2:59 PM, blindspot-smi...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Yes, Kris Just to make it clear, taking into account your remarks. The monitor will eventually fire up - might take two, three, four G5 power-ups, might have to leave it for hours

Re: A Good Monitor for my DA Dual 533 G4

2011-03-11 Thread Geke
in my DA 466MHz was rather slow, it turns out, compared to the Radeon 9000 card I got. The GeForce one will be good too; just check that the maximum resolution the card supports matched your monitor. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4

Re: A Good Monitor for my DA Dual 533 G4

2011-03-10 Thread Dan
At 7:56 PM -0500 3/9/2011, Bill Connelly wrote: Anyone bought an LED/LCD monitor lately? 27, reasonably priced. I'm looking at the ViewSonic VG2728WM 27, which is not LED backlit, but has the added feature of 90 deg rotation. Looks like a very nice display! http://www.viewsonic.com/products

A Good Monitor for my DA Dual 533 G4

2011-03-09 Thread Bill Connelly
Anyone bought an LED/LCD monitor lately? 27, reasonably priced. I'm looking at the ViewSonic VG2728WM 27, which is not LED backlit, but has the added feature of 90 deg rotation. MY DA has a Geforce4MX in it, which has the VGA port, and I think that will work for the native 1920x1080

Re: Video Card/Monitor Question

2011-02-25 Thread Baldassare Guzzo
: Does this mean the card doesn't support Core Image? Or is it just the monitor? *ATI Radeon 9000 Pro:* Chipset Model: ATY,RV250 Type: Display Bus: AGP Slot: SLOT-1 VRAM (Total): 128 MB Vendor: ATI (0x1002) Device ID: 0x4966 Revision ID: 0x0001 ROM Revision: 113-99703-127

Re: Video Card/Monitor Question

2011-02-24 Thread Stephen Conrad
the card doesn't support Core Image? Or is it just the monitor? *ATI Radeon 9000 Pro:* Chipset Model: ATY,RV250 Type: Display Bus: AGP Slot: SLOT-1 VRAM (Total): 128 MB Vendor: ATI (0x1002) Device ID: 0x4966 Revision ID: 0x0001 ROM Revision: 113-99703-127

Video Card/Monitor Question

2011-02-23 Thread Stephen Conrad
Does this mean the card doesn't support Core Image? Or is it just the monitor? *ATI Radeon 9000 Pro:* Chipset Model: ATY,RV250 Type: Display Bus: AGP Slot: SLOT-1 VRAM (Total): 128 MB Vendor: ATI (0x1002) Device ID: 0x4966 Revision ID: 0x0001 ROM Revision: 113-99703

Re: Video Card/Monitor Question

2011-02-23 Thread Barney Guzzo
The 9000 doesn't support core image. I think 9600 9700 and 9800 do. On Feb 23, 2011 11:33 PM, Stephen Conrad khel...@gmail.com wrote: Does this mean the card doesn't support Core Image? Or is it just the monitor? *ATI Radeon 9000 Pro:* Chipset Model: ATY,RV250 Type: Display Bus: AGP

Re: Easy way to monitor network traffic?

2010-12-14 Thread Dennis Myhand
On 12/13/2010 10:20 PM, Jeffrey Engle wrote: I there a way that I can easily monitor my network traffic on my home LAN preferably without using the terminal? with a 3rd party software? Jeff Engle Kamiah, Idaho 83536 Yeah, but the cost is enormous! -- You received this message because you

Re: Easy way to monitor network traffic?

2010-12-14 Thread Erik Harperink
Op 14-dec-2010, om 5:20 heeft Jeffrey Engle het volgende geschreven: I there a way that I can easily monitor my network traffic on my home LAN preferably without using the terminal? with a 3rd party software? Jeff Engle Kamiah, Idaho 83536 Hi Jeff, You can try Wireshark (availble

Re: Easy way to monitor network traffic?

2010-12-14 Thread Dan
At 10:12 PM -0800 12/13/2010, Jeffrey Engle wrote: On Dec 13, 2010, at 10:03 PM, Dan wrote: At 8:20 PM -0800 12/13/2010, Jeffrey Engle wrote: I there a way that I can easily monitor my network traffic on my home LAN preferably without using the terminal? with a 3rd party software? Define

Re: Easy way to monitor network traffic?

2010-12-14 Thread Will S
What about ? Little Snitch Runs in full Demo mode for 3hrs at a time for free. On Dec 13, 8:20 pm, Jeffrey Engle macgu...@gmail.com wrote: I there a way that I can easily monitor my network traffic on my home LAN preferably without using the terminal? with a 3rd party software? Jeff Engle

Re: Easy way to monitor network traffic?

2010-12-14 Thread Jeffrey Engle
On Dec 14, 2010, at 1:09 PM, Will S wrote: What about ? Little Snitch Runs in full Demo mode for 3hrs at a time for free. Not what I need. Jeff -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus

Easy way to monitor network traffic?

2010-12-13 Thread Jeffrey Engle
I there a way that I can easily monitor my network traffic on my home LAN preferably without using the terminal? with a 3rd party software? Jeff Engle Kamiah, Idaho 83536 -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs

Re: Easy way to monitor network traffic?

2010-12-13 Thread Clark Martin
On Dec 13, 2010, at 8:20 PM, Jeffrey Engle wrote: I there a way that I can easily monitor my network traffic on my home LAN preferably without using the terminal? with a 3rd party software? Probably not. If the LAN is via a switch (which includes the one built into routers) then you can

Re: Easy way to monitor network traffic?

2010-12-13 Thread Dan
At 8:20 PM -0800 12/13/2010, Jeffrey Engle wrote: I there a way that I can easily monitor my network traffic on my home LAN preferably without using the terminal? with a 3rd party software? Define monitor... Do you mean general throughput or packet sniffing? To/from your computer or on your

Re: Easy way to monitor network traffic?

2010-12-13 Thread Jeffrey Engle
On Dec 13, 2010, at 10:03 PM, Dan wrote: At 8:20 PM -0800 12/13/2010, Jeffrey Engle wrote: I there a way that I can easily monitor my network traffic on my home LAN preferably without using the terminal? with a 3rd party software? Define monitor... Do you mean general throughput or packet

Re: Monitor clarification on G3, G4 computers

2010-11-10 Thread Bruce Johnson
monitors are plentiful, but the G3 uses older Mac specific connectors. Is there a converter for old mac to new monitor and where and at what cost. Beige G3's or BW G3's? If they're beige, you need a bunch of these: http://tinyurl.com/2fp2dqq This isn't necessarily the best price, just

Monitor clarification on G3, G4 computers

2010-11-09 Thread Jonas Lopez
Monitor clarification on G3, G4 computers We have just received about 20 G3's, but they were told the CRTs were dangerous and hazardous and so had to be disposed of in the special trash. So we have no monitors. As I understand it, the G4 uses the same as the windows and so monitors

G4 monitor power?

2010-10-25 Thread MarkyB
I sold my G4 MDD (epic sad face here) and I am about to set up my old G4 BW. I've never had a use for the monitor power share on the PSU, but are there cords to which I can use that with a standard lcd screen? What I am talking about is the PSU has a male connector for its power cord

Re: G4 monitor power?

2010-10-25 Thread Doug McNutt
At 14:48 -0700 10/24/10, MarkyB wrote: I sold my G4 MDD (epic sad face here) and I am about to set up my old G4 BW. I've never had a use for the monitor power share on the PSU, but are there cords to which I can use that with a standard lcd screen? What I am talking about is the PSU has a male

choosing the monitor?

2010-10-22 Thread Jeffrey Engle
Here's my problem.. I have my powermac w/24 monitor located in the office then I have another smaller 19 monitor I'd like to watch video's off of in the living room. Both are connected to the powermac (G4 MDD)... is there a way to select the front room monitor to play movies on? I've tried

Re: choosing the monitor?

2010-10-22 Thread Jeffrey Engle
On Oct 22, 2010, at 10:51 AM, Bill Connelly wrote: On Oct 22, 2010, at 1:40 PM, Jeffrey Engle wrote: Here's my problem.. I have my powermac w/24 monitor located in the office then I have another smaller 19 monitor I'd like to watch video's off of in the living room. Both

Re: choosing the monitor?

2010-10-22 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Oct 22, 2010, at 10:40 AM, Jeffrey Engle wrote: Here's my problem.. I have my powermac w/24 monitor located in the office then I have another smaller 19 monitor I'd like to watch video's off of in the living room. Both are connected to the powermac (G4 MDD)... is there a way

Re: choosing the monitor?

2010-10-22 Thread Bill Connelly
On Oct 22, 2010, at 2:27 PM, Jeffrey Engle wrote: Can't you just drag the DVD player window to the second monitor? When it's there you should be able to tell it 'full screen' and it'll fill the current screen it's on, I'd think. The problem with this scenario is that for one, you

Re: choosing the monitor?

2010-10-22 Thread Jeffrey Engle
On Oct 22, 2010, at 1:24 PM, Bill Connelly wrote: On Oct 22, 2010, at 2:27 PM, Jeffrey Engle wrote: Can't you just drag the DVD player window to the second monitor? When it's there you should be able to tell it 'full screen' and it'll fill the current screen it's on, I'd think

Re: Mini G4 10.4.11 ViewSonic monitor resolution

2010-08-23 Thread Cliff Rediger
On Aug 22, 8:31 pm, Fabian Fang f...@mac.com wrote: You have been working with VGA output from the Mac mini, which   supports analog resolutions as high as 1920x1080.  I believe that your   ViewSonic monitor accepts DVI input. The ViewSonic accepts both VGA DVI. The odd thing

Re: Mini G4 10.4.11 ViewSonic monitor resolution

2010-08-22 Thread Cliff Rediger
On Aug 21, 5:49 pm, Kris Tilford ktilfo...@cox.net wrote: On Aug 21, 2010, at 1:48 PM, Cliff Rediger wrote: If the cable is a VGA cable, and you have a DVI-to-VGA at the Mini,   then you're stuck unless you buy a DVI cable, which should give a   slightly crisper image on the monitor

Re: Mini G4 10.4.11 ViewSonic monitor resolution

2010-08-22 Thread Fabian Fang
On Aug 22, 2010, at 7:23 PM, Cliff Rediger wrote: On Aug 21, 5:49 pm, Kris Tilford ktilfo...@cox.net wrote: If the cable is a VGA cable, and you have a DVI-to-VGA at the Mini, then you're stuck unless you buy a DVI cable, which should give a slightly crisper image on the monitor, as well

Re: Mini G4 10.4.11 ViewSonic monitor resolution

2010-08-21 Thread Bill Connelly
Why are we getting this message 5 times? On Aug 20, 2010, at 8:16 PM, Cliff Rediger wrote: On Aug 18, 1:52 pm, Bruce Johnson john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu wrote: Try your wife's Acer monitor on the Mini, if you can... that's a good idea Bruce. I'll try that next time I'm down in Santa

Re: Mini G4 10.4.11 ViewSonic monitor resolution

2010-08-21 Thread Ashgrove
I have read complaints about repeated messages in several of the Mac discussions, and 5 seems to be the magic number. People have been blaming each other for this matter, but it's obviously not one or two people playing around. My personal take on it is that it's a Google bug. In my case, I opted

Re: Mini G4 10.4.11 ViewSonic monitor resolution

2010-08-21 Thread John Carmonne
Gee Im happy to see others complaining about this because I recently was accused by a Nannie (who I won't name here) of spamming and excessive quoting, when I asked for an explanation I was snarked. On Aug 21, 2010, at 9:59 AM, Ashgrove wrote: I have read complaints about repeated

Re: Mini G4 10.4.11 ViewSonic monitor resolution

2010-08-21 Thread Richard Gerome
I think something is wrong with this google site??? -Original Message- From: Bill Connelly billycarm...@verizon.net Sent: Aug 21, 2010 11:55 AM To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Mini G4 10.4.11 ViewSonic monitor resolution Why are we getting this message 5 times

Re: Mini G4 10.4.11 ViewSonic monitor resolution

2010-08-21 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Aug 21, 2010, at 9:59 AM, Ashgrove wrote: I have read complaints about repeated messages in several of the Mac discussions, and 5 seems to be the magic number. People have been blaming each other for this matter, but it's obviously not one or two people playing around. My personal take on

Re: Mini G4 10.4.11 ViewSonic monitor resolution

2010-08-21 Thread Cliff Rediger
of resolution/refresh combinations. You may want to try a different cable and see if the other port gives you what you want. Kris, I'm embarrassed to say that looking more closely at the monitor I notice I actually already have a DVI/VGA adapter installed My previous Del 19 was VGA. Based on your

Re: Mini G4 10.4.11 ViewSonic monitor resolution

2010-08-21 Thread Cliff Rediger
of resolution/refresh combinations. You may want to try a different cable and see if the other port gives you what you want. Kris, I'm embarrassed to say that looking more closely at the monitor I notice I actually already have a DVI/VGA adapter installed My previous Del 19 was VGA. Based on your

Re: Mini G4 10.4.11 ViewSonic monitor resolution

2010-08-21 Thread Kris Tilford
On Aug 21, 2010, at 1:48 PM, Cliff Rediger wrote: Kris, I'm embarrassed to say that looking more closely at the monitor I notice I actually already have a DVI/VGA adapter installed My previous Del 19 was VGA. Based on your experience, it doesn't seem to make sense to try a straight DVI

Re: Mini G4 10.4.11 ViewSonic monitor resolution

2010-08-20 Thread Cliff Rediger
On Aug 18, 1:52 pm, Bruce Johnson john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu wrote: Try your wife's Acer monitor on the Mini, if you can... that's a good idea Bruce. I'll try that next time I'm down in Santa Barbara. On Aug 18, 5:25 pm, Clark Martin cm...@sonic.net wrote: Open Display Preferences

Re: Mini G4 10.4.11 ViewSonic monitor resolution

2010-08-20 Thread Cliff Rediger
On Aug 18, 1:52 pm, Bruce Johnson john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu wrote: Try your wife's Acer monitor on the Mini, if you can... that's a good idea Bruce. I'll try that next time I'm down in Santa Barbara. On Aug 18, 5:25 pm, Clark Martin cm...@sonic.net wrote: Open Display Preferences

Re: Mini G4 10.4.11 ViewSonic monitor resolution

2010-08-20 Thread Cliff Rediger
On Aug 18, 1:52 pm, Bruce Johnson john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu wrote: Try your wife's Acer monitor on the Mini, if you can... that's a good idea Bruce. I'll try that next time I'm down in Santa Barbara. On Aug 18, 5:25 pm, Clark Martin cm...@sonic.net wrote: Open Display Preferences

Re: Mini G4 10.4.11 ViewSonic monitor resolution

2010-08-20 Thread Cliff Rediger
On Aug 18, 1:52 pm, Bruce Johnson john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu wrote: Try your wife's Acer monitor on the Mini, if you can... that's a good idea Bruce. I'll try that next time I'm down in Santa Barbara. On Aug 18, 5:25 pm, Clark Martin cm...@sonic.net wrote: Open Display Preferences

Re: Mini G4 10.4.11 ViewSonic monitor resolution

2010-08-20 Thread Cliff Rediger
On Aug 18, 1:52 pm, Bruce Johnson john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu wrote: Try your wife's Acer monitor on the Mini, if you can... that's a good idea Bruce. I'll try that next time I'm down in Santa Barbara. On Aug 18, 5:25 pm, Clark Martin cm...@sonic.net wrote: Open Display Preferences

Re: Mini G4 10.4.11 ViewSonic monitor resolution

2010-08-20 Thread Clark Martin
On Aug 20, 2010, at 5:01 PM, Cliff Rediger wrote: On Aug 18, 1:52 pm, Bruce Johnson john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu wrote: Try your wife's Acer monitor on the Mini, if you can... that's a good idea Bruce. I'll try that next time I'm down in Santa Barbara. On Aug 18, 5:25 pm, Clark

Re: Mini G4 10.4.11 ViewSonic monitor resolution

2010-08-20 Thread Kris Tilford
On Aug 18, 2010, at 11:45 AM, Cliff Rediger wrote: I'm running 10.4.11 on a mini G4 Bought ViewSonic VA2323WM 23 monitor. Looks great, except the VA2323 calls for 1920x1080 60 hz display and will only accept 800x600 and 1024x78 as alternatives. Everything else is out of range. Here are some

Mini G4 10.4.11 ViewSonic monitor resolution

2010-08-18 Thread Cliff Rediger
I'm running 10.4.11 on a mini G4 Bought ViewSonic VA2323WM 23 monitor. Plug Play. Looks great, except the VA2323 calls for 1920x1080 60 hz display and will only accept 800x600 and 1024x78 as alternatives. Everything else is out of range. So two things about the 1920x1080 setting. 1. The window

Re: Mini G4 10.4.11 ViewSonic monitor resolution

2010-08-18 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Aug 18, 2010, at 9:45 AM, Cliff Rediger wrote: So two things about the 1920x1080 setting. 1. The window does not fill the screen. Even when Horizontal size is maxed, there's a 5/8 border on on the left and 3/8 on the right. This sounds much more like a defective display than anything

Re: Mini G4 10.4.11 ViewSonic monitor resolution

2010-08-18 Thread Cliff Rediger
On Aug 18, 2010, at 9:45 AM, Cliff Rediger wrote: So two things about the 1920x1080 setting. 1. The window does not fill the screen. Even when Horizontal size is maxed, there's a 5/8 border on on the left and 3/8 on the right. On Aug 18, 10:20 am, Bruce Johnson

Re: Mini G4 10.4.11 ViewSonic monitor resolution

2010-08-18 Thread Cliff Rediger
On Aug 18, 2010, at 9:45 AM, Cliff Rediger wrote: So two things about the 1920x1080 setting. 1. The window does not fill the screen. Even when Horizontal size is maxed, there's a 5/8 border on on the left and 3/8 on the right. On Aug 18, 10:20 am, Bruce Johnson

Re: Mini G4 10.4.11 ViewSonic monitor resolution

2010-08-18 Thread Bruce Johnson
, as is Acer (I have an older Acer 20 monitor at home that's proven to be a real workhorse.) Again, this isn't a 'resolution problem' with the Mini or the monitor, it's a defective monitor...(or the resolution being sent isn't the one it's claimed to be, which would be VERY weird.) Try your wife's

Re: Mini G4 10.4.11 ViewSonic monitor resolution

2010-08-18 Thread Kris Tilford
On Aug 18, 2010, at 11:45 AM, Cliff Rediger wrote: I'm running 10.4.11 on a mini G4 Bought ViewSonic VA2323WM 23 monitor. Plug Play. Looks great, except the VA2323 calls for 1920x1080 60 hz display and will only accept 800x600 and 1024x78 as alternatives. Everything else is out of range. So

Re: Mini G4 10.4.11 ViewSonic monitor resolution

2010-08-18 Thread Clark Martin
1920x1080 provides. I set up an Acer (or it might have been Asus) 22 monitor on a G4 MacMini and it works just fine with several resolutions available. Clark Martin Redwood City, CA, USA Macintosh / Internet Consulting I'm a designated driver on the Information Super Highway -- You received

Re: Mini G4 10.4.11 ViewSonic monitor resolution

2010-08-18 Thread Kris Tilford
of the TV/Monitor to handle this audio separately from the HDMI video. More modern Macs CAN output both audio and video over DVI- to-HDMI adapter cables provided that you have one of the correct cables, and again, there are no standard cables, so be very careful. -- You received this message

Re: Mini G4 10.4.11 ViewSonic monitor resolution

2010-08-18 Thread Clark Martin
specification for handling audio. AFAIK the G4 Mini can NOT output audio across DVI-to-HDMI which is not how HDMI is supposed to work. You'd need a separate audio cable and the ability of the TV/Monitor to handle this audio separately from the HDMI video. More modern Macs CAN output both audio

Re: Mini G4 10.4.11 ViewSonic monitor resolution

2010-08-18 Thread Kris Tilford
On Aug 18, 2010, at 10:23 PM, Clark Martin wrote: How do you figure the LCD has more pixels, it's a 1920 x 1080 screen. You're correct. 1920 BIG pixels, which is why HDTV make bad monitors unless you're sitting about 10 feet away. You can buy 15 notebooks with the same 1920x1080

Re: Monitor Question

2010-08-05 Thread glen
- Original Message From: Ashgrove salum...@gmail.com To: G-Group g3-5-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Thu, August 5, 2010 12:22:56 AM Subject: Re: Monitor Question Hey Glen, Check this out: http://bit.ly/6nFcHY It hits all the sweet spots, and it's (slightly) bigger than

Re: Monitor Question

2010-08-04 Thread Jason Brown
to know what I am talking about. Once the Dell warmed up the problem went away. It got worse last Winter when the room temp was 50-60 F. The rolling was so fast it just a series of thin lines -- no image. Once the monitor warmed up, all was OK. The work around was to set the auto wakeup time

Re: Monitor Question

2010-08-04 Thread glen
Recently the rolling started an hour or two after the monitor warmed up and was stable. This made for a difficult if not impossible to be useful in a work environment -- s time for a new monitor. The new monitor is definitely sharper than aged Dell -- but if a cheap

Re: Monitor Question

2010-08-04 Thread Doug McNutt
At 16:22 -0700 8/4/10, glen wrote: Generally, I have no problem taking anything apart including the Dell. Should I assume the same danger applies to LCD's as CRT monitors regarding electric shock from the charge stored in the capacitors? If so, any safe way to discharge them? Probably won't

Re: Monitor Question

2010-08-04 Thread glen
- Original Message From: Doug McNutt dougl...@macnauchtan.com To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Wed, August 4, 2010 9:46:14 PM Subject: Re: Monitor Question At 16:22 -0700 8/4/10, glen wrote: Generally, I have no problem taking anything apart including the Dell. Should

Re: Monitor Question

2010-08-04 Thread Peter Haas
On Aug 4, 2010, at 6:46 PM, Doug McNutt wrote: He was tuning the frequency of the horizontal oscillator. It has to match the rate at which the transmission is sent, about 15 kHz was standard NTSC television. There is also a vertical oscillator which was once 30 Hz. Pre-NTSC, the

Re: Monitor Question

2010-08-04 Thread Ashgrove
Hey Glen, Check this out: http://bit.ly/6nFcHY It hits all the sweet spots, and it's (slightly) bigger than your old Dell. I would get myself it if I had the money right now. Oh, well. Good luck, Felix -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using

Re: Monitor Question

2010-08-03 Thread Kevin Barth
On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 9:46 PM, admin oneluc...@mac.com wrote: How do you do that? I always wondered why one monitor couldn't work for all uses. Thanks. It's not difficult. I have a KVM switch set up to allow me to share the monitor between multiple CPUs. One of the CPUs has an ATSC tuner

Re: Monitor Question

2010-08-03 Thread glen
.  Probably the former, as they would be trumpeting it up in their ads if it were 1080p.  Which doesn't make it a bad deal, necessarily.  The difference between 1080i and 1080p is likely to be insignificant at that size of monitor, unless you are watching Blu-Ray discs on it.  And even then I'm not sure

Re: Monitor Question

2010-08-03 Thread Jason Brown
was adjusting/calibrating the monitor. Hannspress hides the adjustment button UNDER the monitor frame. The button symbols are pressed on the black plastic and are invisible in my lighting. It really took me too long to get the monitor calibrated for my work. But I did and all is well

Re: Monitor Question

2010-08-03 Thread glen
Really miss the adjustment buttons on the frame of the old 20 Dell 2005 UltraSharp that died. --glen Do you know what went bad? It is most likely either an inverter, caps or the likeliest problem, bulbs burned out. If you want that monitor repaired, I and likely a few others

Monitor Question

2010-08-02 Thread glen
Need I new monitor. My old 20 LCD Dell is on life support. No complaints got used as a gift many years ago. My budget is in the $150 range and the primary use is for graphic arts (commercial but not too color sensitive) and secondarily for general web browsing/email. First question, which

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