From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Sep 23 09:25:17 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id JAA19329 for hardware-outgoing; Tue, 23 Sep 1997 09:25:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from persprog.com (root@persprog.com [204.215.255.203]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id JAA19320 for ; Tue, 23 Sep 1997 09:25:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: by persprog.com (8.7.5/4.10) id LAA29695; Tue, 23 Sep 1997 11:19:57 -0500 Received: from dave.ppi.com(192.2.2.6) by cerberus.ppi.com via smap (V1.3) id sma029689; Tue Sep 23 12:19:33 1997 Message-ID: <3427EC17.3DAC5321@persprog.com> Date: Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:19:35 -0400 From: Dave Alderman Reply-To: dave@persprog.com Organization: Personalized Programming, Inc X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.0 [en] (Win95; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nate Williams CC: "Gary T. Corcoran" , freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: My monitor's got the Shakes... X-Priority: 3 (Normal) References: <19970922020524.01866@vinyl.quickweb.com> <2148.874908597@time.cdrom.com> <19970922022041.09429@vinyl.quickweb.com> <342627F7.8F2B13D@idt.net> <19970922191032.39700@lemis.com> <342750F1.6B99A272@idt.net> <199709231457.IAA07172@rocky.mt.sri.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Nate Williams wrote: > > Mess with the background to see if you can minimize it. If I use a > grey > background, it makes it much worse than if I use a 'darker' background > (I use a wall-paper like pattern which tends to minimize the effects.) (Ding Ding DING!) On Sqwindows '95, some colors are created by using a pixel-by-pixel stipple pattern of different "solid" colors. Sometimes this is done even if the video depth is set to 16 (a non-pallette mode). Could this be happening in X? Maybe there is an xbm or xpm -based grey involved. -- "Going down to South Park - going to leave my woes behind..." David W. Alderman dave@persprog.com