Re: Laptop question

[Al Hudson <nospam [at] york.ac.uk>]

On Sun, 27 Feb 2000, Craig Andrews wrote:

> Your all right, of course. Any chance of installing by serial cable
> though? Thing is I only have £150, and it could take a while to save up
> the rest.

slip / plip / all the same thing really ;)

> BTW, my monitor seems to be having trouble. When I have a white screen
> (eg in Netscape compose), and select a lot, making it black, the screen
> changes shape quite dramatically. Now, the monitor is only 2 months old,
> so it could be dodgy hardware, but is there a problem known with X11R6
> or any video settings (I have a Matrox Mystique 220) which could cause
> this. I did have to set up the dot clock manually, so that could be a
> problem. I will try it in a different res, and in Windoze (that's what
> the drivers were for, after all. PLease don't hate me.)

Changing shape sounds very dodgy and probably more likely a problem with
the monitor than the card. Your dot clock is either right or wrong,
there's not really a gray area where the picture's okay one minute then
screwed the next. It's unlikely that the Matrox is giving out duff video,
because even if it was, the picture wouldn't change shape, it would roll
and skew and stuff. If the picture's actually bending in or something like
that, that sounds like a classic monitor failure, I'm afraid. At 2 months
old, I would hope it's still under warranty ;) Try setting it up in
Windows, that will show whether or not it's hardware or software (or at
least, one would hope it would). Also, try it in a really basic 640x480
mode and see if you can replicate the problem..

Cheers,

Alex.


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