> Using xv (e.g. xine) in fullscreen mode I see a lot of short > horizontal lines flickering all over the screen. AFAIK these > are called "tearing artefacts", but I am not sure about the > terminology. Plus there are some noisy dots at the left edge > of the screen.
A quite similar problem seems to exist with the closed source nvidia driver and Dell monitors. I have a Dell 2405FPW and a GeForce FX5600, so not exactly the same setting, but I can reproduce something similar. When I turn the TwinView feature on, the horizontal lines flickering goes away. This is what I added to my xorg.conf to get things to work smooth (replace the 1920x1200 by 1600x1200 for your Dell 2000FP): Section "Device" ... Option "TwinView" Option "MetaModes" "DFP-0: 1920x1200, CRT-0: 1920x1200" Option "TwinViewOrientation" "Clone" Option "ConnectedMonitor" "CRT-0, DFP-0" ... I have horrible flickering as above in Windows (over VGA), and no solution for that (and I don't have any solution how to bring that screen into 1920x1200 over DVI on Windows, no flickering in the 1600x1200 mode over DVI, though). -- Bernd Paysan "If you want it done right, you have to do it yourself" http://www.jwdt.com/~paysan/
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