Dell 2005FPW 20" TFT problem

Jorge Arcas jorge at warp.es
Wed Jan 11 00:29:00 PST 2006


El Tuesday 10 January 2006 19:39, Xavier Bestel escribió:
> Le mardi 10 janvier 2006 à 12:58 +0100, Jorge Arcas a écrit :
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have a problem configuring the 2005FPW (a 20" TFT monitor from Dell)
> > with xorg in a laptop with a ATI Radeon 7500.
> >
> > The resolution is ok (1680x1050) and the VGA output works fine, but the
> > image is not completely sharp.
> >
> > The image seems to be correctly drawn, but a thin shadow is dropped just
> > a milimeter near the edges of the fonts, windows, etc. and the image
> > isn't still perfect
>
> I have seen big problems (3cm image offset, shadows on texts) with a bad
> VGA cable. Replaced it with a good one and the image went perfect.

I will try with a better VGA cable but, in other machine works ok with
linux and Windows, so I think my laptop VGA output is not really good
or the ati driver isn't working as expected.

Thank you,
-- 
Jorge Arcas <jarcas at warp.es>
Warp Networks S.L.
http://www.warp.es
http://people.warp.es/~jorge/blog




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