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. > > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
