Vertical pixel artifacts on Dell 2005FPW

[Tom Marshall]

On Sat, Dec 03, 2005 at 09:30:59PM +1300, Mark Derricutt wrote:
>    Hi,
>    For the last couple of weeks or so I've been getting regular, but not
>    always a flickering vertical line of pixels about 2" into the edge of
>    my 20" widescreen LCD.  This seems to happen under Gnome, PWM, Window
>    Maker, but NOT when I play a DVD, or play a game in full-screen GL
>    mode, so I'm somewhat suspecting a problem with [1]X.org (but could be
>    wrong?).
>    If I turn the monitor off, or change resolutions it goes away, then a
>    few minutes later it starts again.
>    The machine is using the non-free Nvidia drivers with a Winfast A340
>    (Leadtek) graphics card, at a resolution of 1680x1050, has anyone seen
>    anything similar, or got any suggestions I could try?

I had display issues with a 2001FP that were solved by telling the monitor
to resync (using the OSD menu).

If you have done that and you are still having problems, the next thing I
would try is to verify the X server is using the proper video timings.  Use
OSD and/or the xvidtune application to display and tweak the timings.  I
don't know about the 2005FPW, but many LCD displays work best with a 60hz
refresh rate.

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