Re: [SLUG] Slight flickering on dual monitor set up

2007-04-13 Thread elliott-brennan
Hi Heracles, I've moved them further apart (neck strain???) and it has improved the problem somewhat (should have thought of that :)) As for buying LCD monitors... I'd say that's out of the questions until these die or some kind person upgrades and gives me their now unneeded hardware :))

Re: [SLUG] Slight flickering on dual monitor set up

2007-04-09 Thread Heracles
Hi Elliot, CRT monitors have a coil (which when powered up creates a strong magnetic field) around the edge of the tube to degauss them. The tubes also produce interesting magnetic fields when they are in operation. If they are placed too close together this can interfere with the operation of each

Re: [SLUG] Slight flickering on dual monitor set up

2007-04-09 Thread elliott-brennan
Hi Ben, Thanks for the suggestions. The monitor screens are about 10cms apart and the rear about 30cm (they sit at a slight angle to each other on the desktop). There are no other power cables crossing the video cables. Each of the monitors is plugged into a separate power point. My orig

Re: [SLUG] Slight flickering on dual monitor set up

2007-04-09 Thread Ben
On 4/9/07, elliott-brennan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have to 17" Philips monitors (107T5 - primary - and a 107S6 - secondary) running off a 128Mb Nvidia FX5500 dual-head card. At times (e.g.. when I open mail from Thunderbird) I get a slight flicker on the second monitor and similar on the pr

Re: [SLUG] Slight flickering on dual monitor set up

2007-04-09 Thread Ben Donohue
Hi, I've had similar to this before... sometimes it power. You might try to plug them into the power in a different way. Ben elliott-brennan wrote: Hi all, I'm wondering if anyone has any suggestions or advice? I'm running Kubuntu 6.06 on a Hyperthreaded 3Ghz P4 with 1.5G RAM. I have to 17

[SLUG] Slight flickering on dual monitor set up

2007-04-08 Thread elliott-brennan
Hi all, I'm wondering if anyone has any suggestions or advice? I'm running Kubuntu 6.06 on a Hyperthreaded 3Ghz P4 with 1.5G RAM. I have to 17" Philips monitors (107T5 - primary - and a 107S6 - secondary) running off a 128Mb Nvidia FX5500 dual-head card. At times (e.g.. when I open mail f