On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 11:24:59PM -0700, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote: > On Tue, 01 Aug 2000, Ron Farrer wrote: > > > > > > I've been running Debian for years and my monitor (20" IBM P200) has > > been working fine with it's current setting for months. Now all of a > > sudden I get a VERY high pitched noise from it when in X. It does > > not do this on the console! It has become more and more frequent and > > is starting to drive me nuts (well more then usual :) I know it's > > the monitor because I can turn it off while it's doing it and the > > noise stops. Does anyone know what the problem might be? > > > > FYI I am running potato using a Matrox Mill. (original) with 8MB > > memory @ 1024 x 768. > > > > Ron, > > I have a 17" 'emachines' monitor. It was making some pretty heavy > noise too when I first fired up x after running XF86Setup. I don't > know why but in windoz it was quiet but x was giving it grief.. I > finally tweaked the settings and cured the noise (Think I increased > the res).. I'm sure it's probably unrelated, but I recall seeing > upgrades to x the last two times I ran the 'apt-get update/upgrade' so > perhaps you need to tweak things on ur end... Just a thought. Given this, it's possible that modifications to video settings via xvidtune might dispose of harmonics leading to monitor hum, if the cause is resonance rather than failing bonds or fasteners. Haven't tried it myself, but the logic seems to work mentally. While hitting a monitor may provide a short-term fix, I'd suspect it would compound the problem of a degrading joint. Not generally recommended. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://www.netcom.com/~kmself Evangelist, Opensales, Inc. http://www.opensales.org What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Debian GNU/Linux rocks! http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ K5: http://www.kuro5hin.org GPG fingerprint: F932 8B25 5FDD 2528 D595 DC61 3847 889F 55F2 B9B0
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