You want to be VERY careful with X. I've fried a Tosh 2060 with bad X settings.
I still see the screen but it's very faint. I had the same symptons but wrongly wrote it off to being problems with X per se instead of X config as I should have. Stuart ----- Original Message ----- From: "Henry T Wijaya" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, 26 February 2002 11:38 Subject: Re: [SLUG] Toshiba laptop & X > 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 > > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
