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. > > > 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
