Re: graphics woes :-(

2020-01-27 Thread D. R. Evans
Felix Miata wrote on 1/27/20 4:47 PM: > D. R. Evans composed on 2020-01-27 14:57 (UTC-0700): > >> I'm sure I'm missed out important information, so feel free to ask and I'll >> do >> my best to answer. > > I have a display that takes a long time to initialize when connected to a PC > using >

Re: graphics woes :-(

2020-01-27 Thread D. R. Evans
Stefan Monnier wrote on 1/27/20 4:06 PM: >> anything at all, then, after a very long time, I see the stream of Linux text >> messages that indicates booting, but I never see a graphical login screen. >> (The delay before the messages appear is far longer than a normal boot cycle >> -- indeed, I

Re: graphics woes :-(

2020-01-27 Thread Felix Miata
D. R. Evans composed on 2020-01-27 14:57 (UTC-0700): > I'm sure I'm missed out important information, so feel free to ask and I'll do > my best to answer. I have a display that takes a long time to initialize when connected to a PC using UEFI mode and a disk configured with GPT and UEFI boot,

Re: graphics woes :-(

2020-01-27 Thread Stefan Monnier
> anything at all, then, after a very long time, I see the stream of Linux text > messages that indicates booting, but I never see a graphical login screen. > (The delay before the messages appear is far longer than a normal boot cycle > -- indeed, I had given up waiting for something to happen

Re: graphics woes :-(

2020-01-27 Thread D. R. Evans
D. R. Evans wrote on 1/27/20 2:57 PM: > Running debian stable (64 bit). > > For the past couple of months I've been trying to get a system with onboard > Intel graphics to work completely correctly, but have never been able to get > rid of flicker on the console tty or on fine text in konsole in

graphics woes :-(

2020-01-27 Thread D. R. Evans
Running debian stable (64 bit). For the past couple of months I've been trying to get a system with onboard Intel graphics to work completely correctly, but have never been able to get rid of flicker on the console tty or on fine text in konsole in a graphical desktop. There are enough threads on

RE: 24-bit graphics woes

1999-10-15 Thread Bill
I think the 24 bit colour problem is from one of the libraries Netscape 4.6 (and WP 8) was compiled with. Do a search in the mail archive and and in Deja for more info. It seems to be a problem only at 24 bit. The other problem I've never seen before, maybe another netscape bug, I'm currently

Re: 24-bit graphics woes

1999-10-15 Thread Ed Cogburn
Bill wrote: I think the 24 bit colour problem is from one of the libraries Netscape 4.6 (and WP 8) was compiled with. Do a search in the mail archive and and in Deja for more info. It seems to be a problem only at 24 bit. The other problem I've never seen before, maybe another netscape bug,

24-bit graphics woes

1999-10-14 Thread Stuart Ballard
I just upped my X server to 24-bpp display, and I have two questions regarding this: First, netscape suddenly started displaying all its icons in a rather fetching grey/black color scheme. Is this always the case in 24-bit, is there a known fix, or is my system just weird? :) Secondly, of

Re: 24-bit graphics woes

1999-10-14 Thread Bryan Allen
You might want to check out xfree86.org, they've got spiffy infos on the supported cards. and yeah.. the 24 bit ugly netscape thing is netscape being ghetto and ugly in 24 bit. try jumping it up to 32bit as soon as you can. x is generally a lot prettier when it's got the color depth behind it. :)

Re: 24-bit graphics woes

1999-10-14 Thread Stuart Ballard
Bryan Allen wrote: You might want to check out xfree86.org, they've got spiffy infos on the supported cards. and yeah.. the 24 bit ugly netscape thing is netscape being ghetto and ugly in 24 bit. try jumping it up to 32bit as soon as you can. x is generally a lot prettier when it's got the

Re: 24-bit graphics woes

1999-10-14 Thread John Foster
Stuart Ballard wrote: Bryan Allen wrote: You might want to check out xfree86.org, they've got spiffy infos on the supported cards. and yeah.. the 24 bit ugly netscape thing is netscape being ghetto and ugly in 24 bit. try jumping it up to 32bit as soon as you can. x is generally a lot