On Tue, 2009-10-20 at 20:55 -0400, [email protected] wrote: > Some people like the nice crisp text of true console mode. Many can't > stand surfing with a textmode browser. Count me in both groups. So I > switch back and forth a lot. This email is being composed in a true > text console (80 columns x 48 rows; but that's another story). I flip > to X for surfing/spreadsheets/etc. When I do, I find that the colours > on my current machine's display are corrupted. Clicking on a window > will reset most of the colours, but the window title-bar still looks > like colour confetti. > > Background info... I'm running 32-bit X86 Gentoo on an Intel Core2 > Duo cpu. "lspci -v" shows the integrated video controller twice, as > both 00:00.0 and as 00:02.0, like so... > > > 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82G33/G31/P35/P31 Express DRAM > Controller (rev 02) > Subsystem: Dell Device 020d > Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0 > Capabilities: [e0] Vendor Specific Information <?> > Kernel driver in use: agpgart-intel > Kernel modules: intel-agp > > 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82G33/G31 Express > Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) > Subsystem: Dell Device 020d > Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 5 > Memory at fdf00000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512K] > I/O ports at ff00 [size=8] > Memory at d0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M] > Memory at fdc00000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1M] > Capabilities: [90] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit- > Count=1/1 > Enable- > Capabilities: [d0] Power Management version 2
If you are using the Intel graphics I think you should try KMS. Switching back and forth between X and a vt is both fast and flicker-free and I haven't seen any artifacts switching between the two.
