CRT monitors VS Laptop stuff

[Gene Heskett]

On Monday 05 October 2009, Dotan Cohen wrote:
>2009/10/5 Nils Kassube <kassube at gmx.net>:
>> Ric Moore wrote:
>>> There has to be some power saving thing going on that ain't right. I
>>> can crank up Sauerbraten and quit, the display is perfect. Nice and
>>> crisp. Then I go into evolution and the display fades, ...just a
>>> touch. Enough to be noticeable. Enough to be irritating.
>>
>> That reminds me of desktop effects, not a power saving thing - because
>> it wouldn't save any power.
>
>My thoughts exactly: desktop effects, not a screen dimmer. On LCD
>screens there is an actual backlight to dim. Not so on CRTs, where the
>electrons hitting the phosphors make the light. I would have expected
>Gene to mention as much.

Since I don't use them to any great extent, it slipped my mind, whats left of 
it that is.

>Check the desktop effects. And try running an older, stable LiveCD.
>That should help rule out hardware.

Good advice.


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