And installed Windows 10 because I had a fresh copy that was supposed to go on my laptop. I hooked up my old monitor F-417 … ha, no eye strain at all. Changing DVI/HDMI/DisplayPort inputs or using adapters had no effect in general. Perhaps, only the ATI one was slightly better because I was using the VGA input. I tried with much older graphics card, namely Geforce 8400GS and ATI RV515… the same effect. I tried turning on/off dithering, changing color range etc. I tried installing older Nvidia drivers, but that didn't help. So much that my eyelids were totally dry and the "non-yolk part of the eye" that should be white, was red.
"Normally" means that I did feel a bit more tired, and going back to my ancient laptop was a relief still.Ī couple of weeks ago a kernel update and an update of the Nvidia driver to 510.xx caused heavier eye strain on the Viewsonic monitor. So for about six months or so I was able to do work on Ubuntu "normally" with the Viewsonic monitor. Viewsonic VG2448 with some adjustments was much better. After a day or two I couldn't use the AOC 24P2C monitor anymore. I had to reduce brightness/contrast practically to zero. It was my first time using IPS monitors, this super-duper fancy peace of … the sun. To my surprise I immediately felt eye strain from using both monitors. I got two monitors, AOC 24P2C and Viewsonic VG2448, and a Nvidia GT 1030 graphics card with HDMI/DVI outputs.
It turned out that the PWM problem was insurmountable, so I let it go because it didn't matter, I was happy with Windows.Ībout 6 months ago I decided to put together a new PC and switch to Ubuntu 20.04 LTS altogether. I did, however, try to run Linux Mint on the laptop. Both configuration caused me no eye strain at all. I would just like to share my story about eye strain with new monitors.įor a long time I have been using an Asus K53E laptop with Windows 7, and a very old computer with Geforce 8400GS and a AG Neovo F-417 monitor running Ubuntu. It's a positive sign when minutiae like that are my main complaints.Hi to all. Paths that didn't change meant configs and symlinks could be persistant, which made a lot of spiffy things quite easy (eg Thunderbird profile on USB drive). For example, the KDE version used to automount USB drives by device name (eg /media/sdb1), but the Gnome version would use the label (eg /media/work). Various small irritations have been keeping me on Ubuntu for the rest of my machines, but those are gradually disappearing.
I had actually reached a point where I could write my own nf without too much stress, but that plus all the associated configuration for Gnome/KDE is still a PITA, easily the most time consuming part of an Ubuntu install on a dual-head machine.
Ubuntu with the Gnome interface still needs help. This is one of the main reasons I use Kubuntu on my main machine, you can do everything from installing the nvidia drivers to setting up the various dual-head stuff completely graphically. The only reason you should need to put actual resolutions in your nf is if you're using dualhead at least with Nvidia cards, you'll have to put in a metamodes line in the driver section. One nifty thing is some monitors will display the refresh rates if they're being driven out of spec if it's not a really ancient monitor (like 15 years old it was possible to break monitors by driving them too fast) you could just throw in some random refresh rates, and then write down what your monitor says if they don't work. If it's not working, with remotely modern hardware all you should need is your refresh rates. Then, if you want a different one just use gnome's config thingy or whatever. You shouldn't need to have any resolutions in your Screen section X should come up with resolutions that work with your monitor's refresh rates, assuming it has them, and it'll set up your modes for you and default to the highest res. Before the days of EDID, modelines were D: Take comfort in the fact that it's a hell of a lot better than it used to be.