[ale] Video problems

[James Sumners]

In this case, the phrase "a picture is worth a thousand words" comes
to mind. A screenshot would be image perfect, so you couldn't send
that. But a decent cell phone camera picture would suffice.

On Thu, 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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