Screen shaking on old PC (LCD monitor)

I just installed Arch on an old PC with an intel E8281E onboard vga and a 17' LCD monitor (this PC used to run Arch with Gnome, but the hard drive failed so I had to reinstall and went for LXDE instead).
When I start LXDE, the screen shakes at native resolution (1280x1024), but not in lower resolutions
I'm using the xf86-video-intel driver since it seems to be the most appropriate for this hardware. I tried disabling KMS at boot but nothing changed
Any suggestions?
Edit: My bad, it shakes in all resolutions, it just isn't as visible
Last edited by DreamAxe (2010-08-07 19:51:12)

Old Intel card needs xf86-video-intel-legacy, which isn't supported by the new xorg-server. I don't know if yours is that old.
[ 2805.706] (II) intel(0): Not using default mode "1280x1024" (hsync out of range)
Maybe you should check your refresh settings? Wrong refreshing causes "shaking" or "blurring".
[ 2805.712] (**) intel(0): DPI set to (95, 96)
Try setting your dpi to 96,96.

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