Re: IIYAMA 17' TFT damaged screen, geforce4 Ti4200 and linux
Dr Andrew C Aitchison <[email protected]>
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On Thu, 12 Dec 2002, Dr E B Bettler wrote: > Hi all !! > i've a technical question: > i've bought a 17'' TFT IIYAMA screen (AS4314UT) with a geforce4ti 4200 (athlon > XP2400). After the installation of RedHat8 (with the native NVIDIA drivers), > i've discovered a pixel in the right-upper corner that stay white all the > time !! (even at the start screen, under win2k etc...) for a screen of 600 > euros f@#$ i changed it... to have the same problem, at the same position !! > my question is: is it possible to damage a TFT screen with the NVIDIA native > drivers under Linux (i don't want to install the NVIDIA proprietary drivers > on my new screen without to be sure about the problem) ? > the problem seems not to appears under Win2k ! All the TFTs I've seen are guaranteed to have fewer then n faultly pxiels, where n is asmall, but non-zero number, so I fear that you have a fault that the manufacturers consider to be acceptable. -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge [email protected] http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna