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#! rnews 1531 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!tezcat!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!newsout1.alt.net!news1.alt.net!news.aa.net!usenet From: "brian wehrle" <brianw@aa.net> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: wavy video under X ? Date: 5 Mar 1997 08:30:18 GMT Organization: Alternate Access Incorporated Lines: 24 Message-ID: <01bc28db$f6374f20$3b8dc7cd@bw.aa.net> References: <5fi3dh$7hc@saluki-news.it.siu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: cust59.max1.seattle.aa.net X-Newsreader: Microsoft Internet News 4.70.1155 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:36568 I recommend reading the /usr/X11r6/lib/X11/docs/README.(your vidoe chipset) file. They usually have tips for changing /etc/XF86Config file that would apply to your video card/chipset. Just a little tuning is probably required. I' m not sure if that path is correct. Brian Jim Dutton <jimd@dutton4.it.siu.edu> wrote in article <5fi3dh$7hc@saluki-news.it.siu.edu>... > I have been running X11R6.1 (XFree86) for some time now, and lately, the > screen has begun to wave (on a Gateway-2000, Vivtron 1572 monitor). I used > Xvidtune to see if changing mode sizes would help, and while it did slow the > wave down in a couple of the modes, it hasn't emlimnted the wave altogether. > > There isn't any magnetic source near the monitor. > > How bad of an indicator is this wave, and what else should be done about it? >