Henry T Wijaya wrote:

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

Its an S3 Inc. | Virge/MX (autoprobed by Xconfigurator) and Win-98 
reports the same
The X server used is XF86_SVGA and XFree4 driver reports: (default).

I tried running Xconfigurator --preferxf3, but it made no difference.

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>
> 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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