Any advice about running a 24" monitor with Macbook Pro?

In a far city, 3,000 miles from my tower and Apple Cinema screens. I have to edit a film from a little MacBook Pro laptop (2.16 GHz Intel Core Duo, max 2 GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM).
I borrowed a 24" Acer, plugged it in. Seems to look okay for editing. But panning and any movement is generating mild breakup, like a thin slash through the image. I'm wondering if there is some way I can set up the laptop to more efficiently drive the external monitor?
So far all I've done is plugged it in, and set it up as the playback screen for Final Cut Pro.
Any suggestions would be most appreciated...
Ben

According to the Apple spec sheet, your external monitor port should support up to 2560 by 1600 pixels on a MacBook Pro 2,2, which I think you have. You could try setting the external to smaller res numbers and see if that helps.
My 22" LCD monitor has a maximum res of 1680x1050 and I suspect the native res on your 24" external is less than the 2560x1600 that the MBP is supposed to support.
Are you in spanning mode or mirrored mode? Might try both and see if one works better.

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