[Novalug] washed-out display

[Ed James]

I'd try setting the graphics driver to something mild and generic, as
in "vga - Generic vga graphics card".  I do this when switching
monitors and/or graphics cards of different types.  Otherwise, I'm
likely to hit strange-looking displays.

Just a long shot, but I might try booting with a setting to a fairly
low-power vga setting, something with low res and less than a
bazillion colors.  Here's a link with the codes:

    http://spblinux.de/2.0/grub.htm

Ed James


Quoting Beartooth <beartooth at Beartooth.Info>:

> On Thu, 24 Dec 2009, Dan Arico wrote:
>
>> It could be a combination of graphics card and monitor. I had a
>> LCD monitor on this computer with some bad pixels. They were
>> permanently on. When I replaced the monitor and moved the old
>> one to another computer, both monitors worked perfectly.
>
>  	Dunno if it's relevant, but fwiw, it didn't use to have
> the problem. It did have a different one : 1280x1024 was the
> biggest display it would take a setting for. (Fortunately, that
> was within the monitor's ability to adjust to.) Now, it probes
> the monitor, and recognizes name, model, and size 1680x1050.
>
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