Well .. I've got too much work to get done to play with it anymore. I've burned half the day on this .. lol
I just grabbed that 15" Sony and I'll have to figure it out laters. Thanks for everyones help! Rick On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 11:55, Trever Furnish wrote: > I wish I could help - maybe then I could help myself. I have a system > with similar symptoms. I've even explicitely set the hsync and vsync - > ie I put in only one value for each, not a range - and it doesn't seem > to help. On the other hand, xvidtune claims it's not actually running > at exactly the freqs I entered still, so I guess it could still be a > sync rate problem. > > The same monitor works great when being driven by windows. In my case > I'm using different systems for linux and windows, so it could be a > video card thing, but the card worked fine before I switched the system > to linux. > > The effect I have is one where there's almost a shadow image overlaid on > the real image - you can't really see it unless you look at an "edge" > where the intensity of the picture changes - for example, the transition > from a light desktop background to a dark xterm window. About 3 > millimeters from the edge, you see a phantom edge where everything is a > little lighter. It's sort of like someone took a screenshot in the > gimp, duplicated the original layer, then moved the new layer a few > pixels to the right overlaid it on the using one of the methods that > only affects signal intensity. > > FWIW, I've had the same problem several times in the past and have > always wanted to discover the fix, but so far no luck... > > -- > Trever > > D. Rick Anderson wrote: > > >Man I wish it was something as simple as anti-aliasing. > > > >I tried my little 15" Sony on here, and it looks nice and sharp. I just > >don't really want to work on that 15" all day. > > > >What's getting my goat is if I boot into windows 2000 it looks great! > >It's only in linux that it looks like this, which is what led me to > >think that it had to be a refresh problem or something. I know that > >Shamrock made really cheap monitors, but I really don't have the money > >to fork out for another 19", and besides, if it's working in Microshaft > >Windblows then there must be a way to get it to work in X. > > > >I ran ddcprobe and the values I got were: > >H: 30 - 95 > >V: 47 - 130 > > > >so that's what I set it to in the configuration, but it didn't change > >anything. > > > >Thanks for your reply, I'll keep tinkering. > > > >Rick > > > > > >On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 11:13, Mark Vojkovich wrote: > > > > > >>On 10 Mar 2003, D. Rick Anderson wrote: > >> > >> > >> > >>>I'm having a strange problem with my monitor. In linux (RH 8.0) it is > >>>just 'slightly' blurry. Not so blurry as to make it impossible to read, > >>>but blurry enough that if I code here for more than 20 minutes or so, my > >>>head is pounding from eye strain. If I boot up into windblows 2000 it's > >>>nice and crisp using the same resolution (1024 x 768). Any ideas how to > >>>fix this? I've tried all kinds of refresh rates to no avail. I even > >>>tried 800 x 600 (eeek), but it was blurry there as well. > >>>Here's my config: > >>>RedHat 8.0 (haven't upgraded anything until I figure this out so it's > >>>all distro defaults) > >>>GeForce 2 MX 400 (Also tried a PCI ATI Xpert 128 with same result) > >>>Shamrock C903P5 19" monitor. > >>> > >>>it HAS to be something in the monitor settings. I tried this before with > >>>RedHat 7.2 and 7.3 on a machine with an Intel 810 (I think), but ended > >>>up going back to 2000. Well I've decided that I'm NEVER using another MS > >>>product, so I have to figure this out now. > >>> > >>>Any ideas or insight would be greatly appreciated. > >>> > >>> > >> Assuming by "blurry" you aren't saying that the fonts are anti- > >>aliased. Some people consider that a feature. > >> > >> It really just sounds like a bad monitor or cable. Are you > >>sure the refresh rate isn't too high? At the same resolution > >>higher refresh rates will look fuzzier. > >> > >> > >> Mark. > >> > >> > >> > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > >XFree86 mailing list > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > XFree86 mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86 _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
