Subject: Re: Off topic: Monitor problems
To: None <port-mac68k@NetBSD.ORG>
From: @-- ReeD ->- <reed@mork.uni.uiuc.edu>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 01/17/1998 17:07:15
On Sat, 17 Jan 1998, Xiamin Raahauge wrote:

> I'm using an Apple Multiscan 15 on my NetBSD box (Q650) in black and white
> mode. As far as I can remember back the monitor has always been a little
> fritzy, sometimes it looks as if it's switching gamma modes randomly, but
> usually a good smack to the side clears it up. Lately it's started to
> switch to a blue shade of things, while black is still black as far as I
> can see, the "white" is a light greenish blue. Up until today it would
> only stay there for a few seconds before it switched back. Now it doesn't
> seem to want to change. Does anyone out there have any ideas as to what
> could be the trouble? Or does anyone have an idea as to how to fix it?
> TIA
> -Xiamin
> 

Heh, well I got an 8-year-old AppleColor High Resolution RGB 14" monitor 
on my IIsi and the same on my IIfx and the one on the IIsi went pink and 
the one on the IIfx went yellow.. the IIsi one finally died completely 
after a year of pink, and the IIfx one still works.. I find lightly 
tapping the monitor in the back to have worked :) It would go back normal 
sometimes for less than a minute, sometimes for days, and then it'd jump 
back to bening yellowish. :) Now those monitors are old (we FINALLY 
bought a G3 with a 17" AppleVision so now I have a modern-day computer! 
Although those old Mac IIs were rough&tough machines, very well built, 
beautioful feel, plus NetBSD works on the IIsi, not on the G3 :))

ReeD.

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