[Sheflug] Re: [Sheflug - Sheffield Linux User's Group] Monitor doing wierd things...

[José Luis Gómez Dans <nospam [at] sheffield.ac.uk>]

On Sat, Apr 29, 2000 at 02:52:27PM +0100, Barrie Bremner wrote:
>  My monitor appears to shifting colour balance, by it`s own accord.

	I always disagreed that machines should be allowed to think by
themselves, they have a couple and you see monitors doing that and worse
X-)
	
>  It`ll go from what I`ve got it set to (standard setting), to looking
> noticably pink, then shortly afterwards greenish, then back to normal -
> and stay there for a while (1/2 hour +).

	I happened on my Amiga's mointor a loooong time ago. If you are
electronics oriented, you might want to have a peek inside, as my
problem was caused by a blown resistor that eventually triggered a dodgy
connection as the are heated up.

>  I`m running a Matrox G400 and a Dell 19" monitor (as ships with the
> Dimensions) - I`ve been running the monitor as a Nokia 447Xi - refresh
> rates are all within spec.
>  I use 1024x768 and 800x600.

	Looks reasonable. But as Ian Wright suggested, you might want to
try another monitor. My bet is the problem will disappear. This looks
like leaky hardware...

	Regards,
	José
-- 
José L Gómez Dans			PhD student
					Radar & Communications Group
					Department of Electronic Engineering
					University of Sheffield UK
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