[ale] Video problems

[Michael Trausch]

Are you using a digital or analog link?  Sounds like you're over VGA or DVI-A, and the signal is out of phase or distorted somehow. How long is the display cable?

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> On Oct 17, 2013, at 7:51 AM, Jim Lynch <ale_nospam at fayettedigital.com> wrote:
> 
> Returning the channel to a Linux technical question, I have a Centos 6 system running on a fairly late model ASUSTeK Computer Inc. P5KPL-VM Motherboard.  It has an Intel 82G33/G31 Express Integrated Graphics Controller.  The monitor is a 19" Hanns G with native resolution of 1440 x 900 at 60 hz.  It looks crappy.  I was running it at 1024  x 768 and it looked crappy but it wouldn't go above that without some encouragment.  So I did a cvt 1440 900 and got a mode line, which I used with xrandr to increase the resolution, thinking it was because the monitor wasn't running in native mode.  It still looks crappy.  It's a bit hard to describe, but there these "artifacts" that are very indistinct.  They look a bit like smears. Vertical lines, appear to have multiple images to the right each one getting more indistinct and fading out after a while.   I keep cleaning my glasses to try to fix it.  Text just isn't clean and distinct.  It's not exactly blurry either.  It's hard to explain.
> 
> So is there a software fix?  Do I replace the monitor?  the computer? get a decent video card?  This is more or less a server that gets put into desk top duty to program an Arduino sometimes.
> 
> Thanks,
> Jim.
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