monitor problems on a 3b1? :-(

[J. Eric Townsend]

This is going to sound wierd, but please follow through... :-)


I switched to a "log" window (a tail -f of uucp stuff) a few seconds ago.
There was a line or two of characters that had a bend in them.  Very
slight, just a pixel in the middle.  Just enough to make me think I
was getting blurry-eyed.  I went to another window, and the characters
looked just fine.  So I went back to the log window.  The characters
still had a bend in them.  The log hadn't advanced, either. I got out
a straitedge (metal, for graphics/layout work.  I *KNOW* it's straight).

Yep, they were bent.  I could see the unevenness of the pixels.  Here's
how an "L" looked.

  x
  x
  x
   x
   x
  x
  x
  x
  xxxxx

Aha!, I thought.  Somebody once had a "wavy-monitor" problem and had
to replace their monitor.  I've caught mine before it's gone bad!

Then, it got wierd.  The log changed, so the screen scrolled up a couple
of lines.

The *SAME* lines stayed bent as they went up the screen.  The lines that
replaced them DID NOT BEND.

I *told* you it was wierd.  I've thought I've had "bending lines" before,
but I could never observe them on a regular basis, so I assumed a flaky
source of power or something.

Anybody have any suggestions?  The number of a good witch-doctor, maybe?

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