Monitor whining, butonly in linux.

Terr Fangbite · Post by **Terr Fangbite** » 2005-05-05 09:27am

I have this odd problem with my monitor. In winblows it acts normal. In any form of linux however, I find that I can't go an hour without a high pitched whine starting to develop. A sharp rap to the side or top fixes the problem, but I'm worried it might be a sign the monitor is dying. I'm not going over the pixelization or coloring though. Winblows has higher settings for these (since I want it easy to see games with) than Linux.

Xon · Post by **Xon** » 2005-05-05 10:16am

Could be linux is setting the refresh rate higher than the monitor supports(and the refresh rate it supports could be dropping in its age or something like that).

See what windows is setting it as by going to "Display Properties" (right click on the desktop-> properties or via control pannel) -> "Settings" -> "Advanced" -> "Monitor" and note down what the "Screen refresh rate"is set too.

Then compare to what linux has set.

Pu-239 · Post by **Pu-239** » 2005-05-05 06:01pm

Your XFree86 file is misconfigured. Relavant settings are this:

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        HorizSync       30-85
        VertRefresh     50-160

I don't think Windows shows this: check the back of the monitor or the manual. In any case, it should auto-detect the refresh rate of your monitor. Try running xf86cfg again as root or something. What distribution do you use?