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Date:      Wed, 15 Mar 2000 17:06:36 -0500
From:      Randall Hopper <aa8vb@ipass.net>
To:        Tim Pozar <pozar@lns.com>
Cc:        multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Fxtv and XFree86 4.0 Problems
Message-ID:  <20000315170636.A3631@ipass.net>
In-Reply-To: <20000315074950.A9162@lns.com>; from pozar@lns.com on Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 07:49:50AM -0800
References:  <38C9E472.CBAFFA45@es.co.nz> <20000314212503.B3795@ipass.net> <20000315140004.C36716@moose.bri.hp.com> <20000315074950.A9162@lns.com>

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Tim Pozar:
 |On Tue, Mar 14, 2000 at 09:25:03PM -0500, Randall Hopper wrote:
 |> WORKAROUND: The workaround is to run your X server such that the default
 |> depth is the one fxtv wants to run in, namely the one with the highest
 |> depth (depth 15, 16, or 24).  You've been doing this up til now, and it's
 |> not going to break anything to keep doing it.
 |
 |Pardon me if I missed something in the earlier thread or if this
 |has been covered.
 |
 |I normally run at 32bits, just because I can and Netscape has
 |problems maping colors on its buttons at 24bits.  At 32bits FXTV
 |draws the picture frame and then puts the video almost a full frame
 |off to the left of this frame.  At 24bits it does the right thing.
 |Is there a solution to this?

You have a Matrox Millenium, right?

See:

http://www.deja.com/=dnc/[ST_rn=ps]/getdoc.xp?AN=585204559

for the description and a hack around the problem.  Basically, use the
hack or upgrade to XFree86 4.0.

Randall


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