Monitor Tuning

[Garrett Cooper]

Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote:

>
> On Aug 12, 2005, at 1:52 PM, Sean wrote:
>
>> My display is not very sharp and I was looking for a few tips that  
>> might help to cure things. I tweeked a few things and no luck.  Still 
>> a soft dull image. Little annoying on the eyes.
>>
>> Is anyone running a NEC Multisync XV17+ with an Nvidia 6500 ultra  
>> and getting a sharp display?
>
>
>
> How old is the monitor?  Maybe it is just wearing out?
>
> Also, you can go into the monitor controls on the monitor itself and  
> make certain adjustments that may help.  I have not used this monitor  
> so I don't know the details.  But I would guess that the issues are  
> HW based and not SW
>
> Chad
>
>>
>> Excerpts from my xorg.conf will give you my monitor and graphics card.
>>
>>
>> Section "Monitor"
>>         #DisplaySize      320   240     # mm
>>         Identifier   "Monitor0"
>>         VendorName   "NEC"
>>         ModelName    "NEC XV17+"
>>         HorizSync    31-82
>>         VertRefresh  55-100
>>         Option      "DPMS"
>> EndSection
>>
>>         Driver      "nv"
>>         VendorName  "nVidia Corporation"
>>         BoardName   "6800 ULTRA AGP"
>>         BusID       "PCI:5:0:0"
>>
>>                 Thanks
>>                 Sean
>
>
>
> ---
> Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
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You're sure that the horizontal sync, etc is right? I'm reading from a 
monitor inf file for Windows that your monitor has a horizontal sync 
from 31-65 kHz and a vertical sync from 55-100 kHz.
-Garrett