Re: pain in the a-- guys monitor problem solved
On Sun, 24 Oct 1999, jh wrote:
> x-window. It seems there is some kind of problem with the monitor itself.
> When I bought this computer several months ago the lady said there was some
> problem. I did not notice it because I was mostly fooling around with dos.
> Apparently it doesn't like graphics. Anyway, x is coming up fine and when
> it doesn't I flip the monitor off and on.
>
> How's that for a simple, idiotic solution?
SOunds to me like a bad phase-locked-loop in the horizontal oscillator. A
component has drifted in value or it always had the problem because of
tolerance creep amoung the various components adding up in the wrong
direction. This is tweakable at the hardware level with some monitors but
I would not chance it unless you really know what you are doing, there are
tens of thousands of volts under that hood and the bite is nasty.
You MIGHT try using xvidtune to change the display slightly ... two clicks
wider or to the right or left. You might be right on the ragged edge of
where the thing can lock into the sync signal. Moving it a little might
help. If it gets worse, move it the other way.
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