Hello all, I've seen a little display problem with X on my new laptop (ATI
Rage Pro LT chipset) and was wondering if anyone else had see this.
I got X working quite easily using the vesafb/modified mach64 server trick
(see method #2 at http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~steveh/inspiron/#xserver), so
I boot up with a graphical console. However, I have seen one annoying
problem and I was wondering if anyone else has seen it. Sometimes, when I
bring the system out of suspend mode (or for whatever reason the LCD has
been powered down) when the screen turns back on I get these flickery in
X. Sort of a "jitter" of certain horizontal rows. If I switch to a
console (which is running at the exact same resolution/bit depth) I don't
see the flicker (I suppose it's possible that the flicker _only happens in
between lines of text, but that seems quite unlikely). Switching back to
X the flicker comes right back. Rebooting generally fixes the problem,
but that's quite annoying.
Since it boots up to xdm (my debian install did that by default for some
reason) killing the X server is a little more tricky that just hitting
ctl-alt-backspace so I haven't actually tried restarting the X server to
see if that remedies the problem (although I will try next time the
problem occurs). Has anyone else seen this problem, and if so, any ideas
as to why it happens, and how to fix or avoid it?
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