[ltp] Lines on TFT screen (not linux related)

Mo DeJong linux-thinkpad@www.bm-soft.com
Mon, 11 Sep 2000 08:59:43 -0700 (PDT)


On Mon, 11 Sep 2000, Michael Cameron wrote:

> I'm more interested in whether or not this is likely to be dead pixels, my
> understanding is that >5 is considered defective, a whole vertical line is
> 1024 which I thought would have been caught by a quality control process.
> Also a little unusual if these are nomally fairly randomly distributed about
> a screen.
> 
> Anyone got any suggestions for causes other than dead pixels?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Micahel

Try running the BIOS video tests and see if those pixels
are really dead or if it a problem with the X driver.

Mo DeJong
Red Hat Inc
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