Your comments are extremely useful. However much I would like to get a newer graphics card, I am stuck with this one for a few weeks at least. It works well on an Ubuntu system on a different partition.
How would you recommend to go about trying vesa. That may be what Ubuntu is doing. Turn on vesa framebuffer?
I backed down to 1024xsomething: vertical lines were scalloped/wavy. Someone mentioned this would be a timing issue, but I don't know what I'd do to microadjust timing? xvidtune? I'll try it.
Thanks again.
Alan
On 11/17/05, Bob Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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
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