[ale] Video problems

Boris Borisov bugyatl at gmail.com
Thu Oct 17 08:07:52 EDT 2013


Try please with live CD distro or USB drive. Smallest is puppy linux.
Version WARY is built with the older Xorg server PRECISE is more of a
newest technology.
http://puppylinux.com/download/index.html

Tell us what is working for you.

On 10/17/13, 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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