weird ghosting of characters in X

[Chris F.A. Johnson]

On Thu, 28 Apr 2005 billt-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org wrote:

> I know you don't want to hear this, but you may be shopping for a
> new monitor.

    I agree; the PNG looks fine to me.

> I had this problem about three months ago.

    I had something similar about 6 or 7 years 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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