[ale] Video problems

[ale_nospam at fayettedigital.com (Jim Lynch)]

Returning the channel to a Linux technical question, I have a Centos 6 
system running on a fairly late model ASUSTeK Computer Inc. P5KPL-VM 
Motherboard.  It has an Intel 82G33/G31 Express Integrated Graphics 
Controller.  The monitor is a 19" Hanns G with native resolution of 1440 
x 900 at 60 hz.  It looks crappy.  I was running it at 1024  x 768 and 
it looked crappy but it wouldn't go above that without some 
encouragment.  So I did a cvt 1440 900 and got a mode line, which I used 
with xrandr to increase the resolution, thinking it was because the 
monitor wasn't running in native mode.  It still looks crappy.  It's a 
bit hard to describe, but there these "artifacts" that are very 
indistinct.  They look a bit like smears. Vertical lines, appear to have 
multiple images to the right each one getting more indistinct and fading 
out after a while.   I keep cleaning my glasses to try to fix it.  Text 
just isn't clean and distinct.  It's not exactly blurry either.  It's 
hard to explain.

So is there a software fix?  Do I replace the monitor?  the computer? 
get a decent video card?  This is more or less a server that gets put 
into desk top duty to program an Arduino sometimes.

Thanks,
Jim.