Re: different (not new) video card woes

From: Hactar (ebenONE_at_tampabay.ARE-ARE.com.unmunge)
Date: 08/15/04 

Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2004 05:54:36 GMT

In article <cfmjvm$3p1$1@pc.tampabay.rr.com>,
Hactar <ebenONE@tampabay.ARE-ARE.com.unmunge> wrote:
>
> What is the cause of the two darkenings?

OK, I have figured out more exactly what causes them. I noticed that its
brightness in screen 1 is due to the position of an rxvt (xterm will do
too), with its left edge against the screen's left. This brightness can be
replicated on any of the 8 virtual screens. Moving the rxvt away or past
the edge makes the screen darken. So my guess is that the bright strip of
its scroll bar acts as a means for the monitor to synchronize. I still
don't know what to do about this, besides conclude that the card is well and
truly hosed. 

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                Logic is a systematic method of coming to
                  the wrong conclusion with confidence.

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