screen wavy after upgrade to Feisty - refresh rate? can't config display in kcontrol...

[Aart Koelewijn]

Op do, 15-11-2007 te 16:41 +0100, schreef Aart Koelewijn:
> Op do, 15-11-2007 te 08:01 -0500, schreef anthony baldwin:
> > Robert Spanjaard wrote:
> > > On Wed, 14 Nov 2007 13:07:03 -0500, anthony baldwin wrote:
> > >
> > >   
> > >> Oi colegas,
> > >>
> > >> Since upgrading to Feistry from Dapper yesterday, I am noting that
> > >> the screen is wavy.  That's the best way I can think of to explain the 
> > >> phenomenon.
> > >> The image appears to oscillate at a rapid frequency and short wavelength.
> > >> I've made no changes to vidcard, etc. since dapper,
> > >> but I am operating at a slightly higher screen res.
> > >> I can't find where to alter the screen res in kcontrol (using Kubuntu, sim).
> > >> I can ignore it while doing lots of stuff, but, considering that I am a 
> > >> translator
> > >> and spend all day working with written text, and the text is doing this
> > >> (I can read fine, but), it is giving me a headache.
> > >> I suspect it has something to do with the refresh rate.
> > >> Should I be looking at than in my xconf stuff?
> > >>     
> > >
> > > What kind of screen do you have? If it's a CRT (with a tube), it can be
> > > caused by some other electrical device sitting close to the screen.
> > > I've had the same problem with a pair of speakers once, and the waving
> > > stopped when I removed them.
> > >
> > >   
> > Oh yeah, I know what you mean.
> > It´s kind of like that, but not quite as drastic.
> > The oscillation is at a very short wavelength, fairly rapid frequency.
> > My monitor is an acer flatscreen lcd.
> > It wasn´t doing this while using dapper just before upgrading to feisty,
> > so, I assume something in feisty changed something, rather than
> > any environmental factor.  No environmental factors have changed.
> > Good guess, though.
> 
> In /ect/X11/ you still might have an old xorg.conf.2007*. Compare that
I mean /etc/X11/ of course
> with your present xorg.conf. You may find differences which could
> explain this change in behaviour.
> 
> Aart
> 
>