Re: Sun Monitor Tuneup - how?

From: Tom Tobin (tom_at_acara.co.uk)
Date: 01/07/05 

Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2005 17:59:43 -0000

"Sunny" <sunny@nospam.net> wrote ...
>
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>
> The symptom on the one you described as "jittery" (I said "shimmer") is
> sort of like the effect you get when a TV camera is pointed at a CRT
> monitor, only much, much less pronounced - and no, it's not near
> anything that might interfere with it, and doesn't get any worse when I
> put more running monitors close to it.
>
> I don't have the skills to do component-level diagnosis on these
> monitors, that's why I swapped boards until I had two working reasonably
> well. I was hoping the minor remaining problems would be within the
> range of internal adjustments, are you saying that's not the case?
>
As far as I know, the later Sun monitors can only be set-up
using software. They use Sony's Digital Alignment Software (DAS).
If you search on Google, using these terms, you should find some
sites. But I've never seen it being used.
And I can't find it on the Sony website.
It *does* exist tho...
This guy's dissertation mentions it, and a little about how it works:
http://tinyurl.com/5qu7d
HTH 

-- 
Regards,
Tom Tobin.
www.acara.co.uk

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