Re: [TCLUG:1713] Display Question

[Nate Carlson <natecars@infiniteloop.com>]

I would generally blame this type of thing on Gateway; their monitors are,
from my experience, CHEAP. Of course, you could try downloading the demo
of AccelX, and see if it works better than XFree.. that'd rule out
X-Server incompatibilities (maybe).

-Nate Carlson
 The Infinite Loop
 natecars@infiniteloop.com

On Mon, 12 Oct 1998, Hans Umhoefer wrote:

> This is probably going to be a rather broad question but I'm looking for a 
> little peace of mind. Of late i have been having trouble with my display. 
> Sometimes it has a yellow tint to it. This happens off and on while I'm 
> working on it. It began when I had gotten my monitor replaced because my 
> old one died on me and thus it appeared to be a hardware problem so I 
> convinced Gateway to send me another monitor (which didn't fix anything) and 
> then a whole new motherboard (integrated video sucks, but if Gateway want's to 
> send me a brand new mother board and processor because the vid card is 
> goofy I'm not going to complain).. None of these things fixed the problem, 
> so I'm beginning to wonder if it's a software problem. I observed the 
> first in Linux but it appeared in Win 95 as well. Now with the new board 
> and all, Win 95 seems to be ok, however I still have trouble with it in 
> Linux. I didn't think it was a software problem in Linux because I 
> observed the tinting while I was working in console, X or running an 
> SVGAlib application. I have an ATI Mach64 3d rage II and am running the 
> latest redhat rpm's of the Mach64 X server, the SVGAlib support f the 
> Mach64 seems to be lacking so I use a standard VGA driver when playing 
> quake. Is there some software bug or setting that could be causing this 
> behavior, or possibly damaging my hardware so that it begins to happen in 
> Win 95 as well? I apologize for the broadness f this question but I'd 
> hate to keep having Gateway send me new parts only to have it be 
> something I was doing in Linux. Gateway is not very supportive of Linux 
> and almost refused to help me with some other troubles I was having when 
> they found out I was running it. I think they've forgotten about it or 
> they wouldn't be sending me all this new stuff.
> 
> Thanks in advance for any help you can give. I realize this is a pretty 
> broad topic.
> 
> Hans
> 
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