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Turnabout’s fair play.

Well, my 2nd monitor was better served in another location (allowed me to move that monitor to my AppleIIc+ for a color display vs. the green screen 9") so now that I am back on only the internal monitor for the laptop and that is 100% I should not see the ghost lines any more.

I am using the latest Debian on an Asus Vivobook laptop.

My only issue is a thing I bring upon myself and is cosmetic. I use an external monitor on the laptop and for text fields I sometimes get spurious lines between rows of text, not an underline, but between the actual rows.

It is a little strange and I could just go back to using the laptop screen only if it bugged me too much, so the higher tolerance argument fits this I guess. Otherwise it has been really great. I used to use only the laptop’s monitor so I had no problems before with the setup I mentioned. I might just go back to use only the laptop’s monitor because I can use the external screen elsewhere.

In fact I think I will, It would be nicer to have a color screen for my Apple IIc+ :^)

I also have a desktop machine running Debian 12 semi headless (the monitor is turned off 90% of the time), this machine is a file storage, backup target, and sometimes an SSH target.

Thanks! I will play with those and report back. Also The issue seems to be only happening on my external monitor or a least I had not noticed it on my internal one. The external monitor is the one set to 75% - perhaps I need to change that?.

The larger monitor is at 75%, the smaller laptop builtin is at 100%. I rebooted and now I am able to run Display Configuration again.

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Update 2: I have re-installed with MSDOS 6.20, and for a while there I thought that solved the problem. But then I was sitting in MicroEmacs v4.0 and the hang happened again. BTW the machine is a Dell Optiplex 760

Update - I thought it might have been Freemacs, but I got the same hang while editing a QBASIC program. I think it may be hardware related. The machine I am running FreeDOS on is a $20.00 flea market purchase.

Indeed. I had written a dungeon crawl program for my 41, but I don’t have the source anymore. I might just write it again from scratch.

I have the DM41L - I like it a lot. I used to own an HP41C/Card Reader/wire-attached printer (not the HPIL one)

I followed that, but it never did work. I don’t remember the error the Xorg threw when I attempted to initialize it. I will probably try OpenBSD next.

Thanks! Yes this is one reason I am trying out BSD - Because it is different. The background politics are also different, and may be an important reason to switch. Finally though I have to be able to play Minecraft.(Yes this is a major design goal)

KDE - Was Gnome, but I switched for a reason. I, uh, forgot the reason.

I stumbled upon a Dell Optiplex 760 in a local flea market for $20.00 ! it runs FreeDOS now really well. I have yet to find a driver for the CD/DVD drive but then I don’t use that much.

My ASUS Vivobook has a slider that blocks the camera physically. It is bright red so I can easily see it is closed.

Well, I am not in Australia, but so far my AT&T Uverse has worked well. We don’t need the VOIP or TVOIP we use our cell phones and don’t watch TV so it’s all Internet.

The central office at the other end of that fiber probably has emergency generators too.

I use a small band-aid - no gummy glue on the lens!

In an area power outage, if one keeps the router alive via UPS does the router have anything to talk to? In my case I am “Fiber to the node”, there is a box on the sidewalk at the other end of the block that receives the fiber, then copper to my house.