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Date:	Sat, 25 Aug 2001 21:57:46 PDT
From:	Peter Skye <pskye@peterskye.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Wavy monitor

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Steven Levine wrote:
>
> >My educated guess is hardware. Sound reasonable?
>
> That would be the bad news.
>
> Is it possible you are running 60Hz interlaced. That
> usually makes for very visible lines on the screen.

Good thinking, but that's apparently not the cause here. The Elsa
Resolution Manager program doesn't have an interlaced / non-interlaced
option, but it's the same resolution I've run for three years (I'm
pretty sure it's non-interlaced).

It was working when I left at noon on Friday. The machine was on the
entire time I was gone, and when I came in this evening it was wavy. No
screen saver, the monitor displayed various windows the entire 31 hours
I was gone. I *hope* it got wavy "all of a sudden" at some specific
time rather than "it's getting a little more wavy every hour" which
means it'll be *real* bad tomorrow!

> FWIW, with any sort of decent video card you should be
> running at at least 75Hz, non-interlaced. Faster is
> better up to the limits of the monitor/video card.

Yes, correct. For some reason, the Elsa video card (Permedia 2 chip)
and the Sony monitor don't work above 60 Hz at 1600x1200, even though
they're "supposed to". But I have no flicker at 60 Hz so I don't mind
running at that rate.

Guess I'll get out one of the spare monitors and call one of the
24-hour-turnaround monitor repair shops. The spares are all 1024x768.
(sigh)

- Peter

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