On Wed, 16 Nov 2005 20:50:14 +1000 "Alan E. Davis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I gather that there was a bug in the mga drivers some time ago, and it > appears that the xorg drivers have incorporated the patches I have seen > during my google searches. > I had one running on Gentoo last year, before the motherboard on an 800 MHz Athlon Slot-A died. X ran fine. > I do wonder what to do about framebuffers, though. Tiring of the battle, > after many years of avoiding framebuffers, Have you tried just using - vesa? Or vga? It should work. Turning on everything is always a sure way to break a kernel. > > Description: when scrolling the buffer, some lines are doubled, some are > lost, and using Firefox at least, when I type Ctrl-L, the frame displays > properly until it is scrolled again. I have found descriptions of similar > issues on the Inet, but nothing that has helped get my system to work > properly. Does this symptom ring a bell with anyone? > Generally, it's because the gfx card can't refresh from it's internal memory fast enough. As I recall, the Mystique had an optional memory module, which I have on mine. Perhaps its just that your trying to use too high a resolution and hitting the cards performance limits? With due respect, save up your pennies and get a current Gfx card. Should be around US$42. Sure, that's a months wages in some parts of the world. But still - throwing a massively powerful processor in a system with a dead-end Gfx card is kind of wasteful, unless you're making this thing into a server. Bob - -- [email protected] mailing list
