[TriLUG] OT: Monitor/KVM problems

Tanner Lovelace lovelace at wayfarer.org
Wed May 15 01:12:48 EDT 2002


On Tue, 2002-05-14 at 23:41, Steven Blanchard wrote:
> I had similar problems on a dell flatpanel, when booting either win98 or 
> redhat 7.2. It was a half inch horizonatal shift and clock problems, it 
> seems to be the different ways that the operating systems talk to the 
> monitor, don't ask me why... switching my linux box to the accelerated 
> nvidia drivers cleared up the problem for me, though.

That's actually not too surprising since the nvidia drivers share
a common codebase between the windows and linux drivers.  

I hadn't thought it might be a driver problem, but that actually
makes a lot of sense.

Tanner
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