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Date:      Fri, 24 Apr 1998 13:54:01 +0900
From:      Ignaz KOHLBECKER <ignaz@fujita3.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Cc:        "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@u.washington.edu>
Subject:   Re: Re: yellow borders with X
Message-ID:  <35401AE9.8B0F6D3F@fujita3.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp>
References:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980423103008.470B-100000@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu>

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> > Since I upgraded from 2.2.1-RELEASE to 2.2.5-RELEASE, I observe strange
> > yellow borderlines, dashlines and dots in all kinds of desktop windows
> > and menues. It's not the screen, it's not a reduced colors phenomenon.
> > It's not my glasses and no aliens, neither.
> 
> I haven't looked at your samples. It sure does sound like a color depth
> problem. Does it begin to occur when you run color hungry app like
> netscape, xearth, or gimp?
> 
> I had this happen in 256 color mode running the above apps. It was
> exactly like you describe it.
> 
> You said it is not a color depth problem. What is your color depth? Did
> you redefine "DefaultColorDepth" (if i recall) in /etc/XF86Config ?

Color Depth is 16.

The problem disappeared after iserting the following in /etc/XF86Config:

      #
********************************************************************** 
      # Graphics device section 
      #
**********************************************************************

      Section "Device" 
      (...) 
          Option      "no_bitblt" 
          Option      "no_imageblt"
      EndSection

Ignaz

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