From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Oct 8 10:17:59 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from va.cs.wm.edu (va.cs.wm.edu [128.239.2.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 75E8E37B40B for ; Mon, 8 Oct 2001 10:17:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dali.cs.wm.edu (dali [128.239.26.26]) by va.cs.wm.edu (8.11.4/8.9.1) with ESMTP id f98HGxV19738 for ; Mon, 8 Oct 2001 13:16:59 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from zvezdan@localhost) by dali.cs.wm.edu (8.11.6/8.9.1) id f98HHsS15832 for freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 8 Oct 2001 13:17:54 -0400 Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2001 13:17:53 -0400 From: Zvezdan Petkovic To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: X Problem Message-ID: <20011008131753.A15772@dali.cs.wm.edu> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from uid0@catastrophe.net on Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 11:51:37AM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 11:51:37AM -0500, uid0@catastrophe.net wrote: > I managed to get X running on my OmniBook XE3, but when I'm in TWM (just > using it as the default startup) there's two really weird things that > happen. > It would be nice if you told us which video card you have. The name of the notebook model doesn't mean anything (at least to me). > 1. Whenever I move the mouse, I get horizontal lines flickering. I suppose you use the _default_ X in FreeBSD release (X 3.3.6). This is the indication that the generic SVGA driver doesn't drive your specific video card very well. Not bad, but annoying flicker. The same happened on my Sony Vaio. One can play with ModeLine setup but if your video card is supported by X 4.x better solution is to get rid of old X and install the new one from ports collection. On my Vaio model, trident driver from X 4.x drives Trident Cyberblade video card in 1024x768@16bpp perfectly. I had to set up the options CyberShadow and SoftwareCursor, though. Before CyberShadow I was able to see only a small stripe at the right end of the screen and the rest was black. But "man trident" showed clearly: Option "CyberShadow" "boolean" For Cyber chipsets only, turn off shadow registers. If you only see a partial display - this may be the option for you. Default: on. You can check the options for your video card and whether it's supported at www.xfree86.org. -- Zvezdan Petkovic http://www.cs.wm.edu/~zvezdan/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message