What's the chipset of your video card in your laptop?

Andy Eager wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I have been tearing my hair out trying to get X working correctly on my 
> Toshiba 2520 laptop.
> 
> I have tried a multitude of different video timings and have come to the 
> conclusion that the problem does not lie within video timings.  The 
> generic laptop (800 x 600) setting behaves in exactly the same way as 
> the standard VGA (640 x 480) setting.
> 
> The problem is as follows;
> 
> X starts up and seems to work OK.  Whenever a window is moved around the 
> screen (or text scrolls) a whole bunch of horizontal lines appear on the 
> screen.  There seems to be some kind of pattern when this happens:  I 
> can see the standard icons appear at regular spaces accross the screen 
> (not clearly but they are there).  For example the RedHat icon appears 
> only once when the screen is still, but when a window is moved, it 
> appears 'ghost like' another 2 times at equal intervals across the screen.
> 
> I had a look at google and found only one reference to a similar 
> problem:  Here the author states that the frame buffer device seemed to 
> fix the problem.
> Anybody got any ideas why this would work (haven't tried it yet) and 
> whats going on in the first place?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Andy.
> 
> 


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