[dba-Tech] Display irregularities

[John W. Colby]

While I don't know what would cause such a problem I would doubt that it 
is the monitor.  If a boot fixes it, it just seems more likely the 
signal from the laptop.

John W. Colby

On 9/11/2015 4:53 PM, Arthur Fuller wrote:
> My main squeeze is a laptop, to which is attached a 22" Acer monitor so
> it's got two monitors, seen as one very wide monitor. In the past couple of
> days something's gone sideways with the Acer display: I'm getting a sort of
> double-image of the text etc., just a slight offset as if the normal fonts
> were using a shadow-font. A cold boot fixes the problem. The laptop display
> is crystal-clear (aside: it's a Dell Inspiron and the display is absolutely
> gorgeous), but from time to time the 22" Acer seems to go sideways just a
> touch, just enough to be irritating. As I said,  a cold boot seems to fix
> the problem. Is this an indication of the age of the monitor? It's about 7
> years old, and inexpensive, so that might not surprise me. But it could be
> something simple like some adjustment or another, and I hate to toss
> hardware that still has life in it. (My motto is, Why toss, when one can
> re-purpose?)
>
> Any ideas?
>