weird ghosting of characters in X

Thu Apr 28 20:43:19 UTC 2005

I know you don't want to hear this, but you may be shopping for a new monitor. I had this problem about three months ago. A Whack on one side 'aligned' the guns and it was fine for a while. It started happening regularly enough that the monitor is now sitting on my porch waiting for the special garbage day they pick this stuff up.

Hope I'm wrong here.

Bill

On Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 04:19:08PM -0400, Matt Price wrote:
> hi folks,
> 
> all of a sudden (about 10 minutes ago) my monitor started producing
> ghostly echos of the characters it displays.  So, if I type 
> 
> linux
> 
> a white streak, itslef composed of indiviual whitish lines is
> displayed just to the right of the word there.  You can see an example
> at http://www.derailleur.org/.configfiles/root.png
> 
> what a pain!  I'm finding it really hard to see.  I don't see any
> errors reported in /var/log/XFree86.0.log -- anyone have any idea what
> causes this kind of thing? 
>  
> thanks,
> 
> matt
> 
> 
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