From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 30 18:35:24 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE72337B401 for ; Wed, 30 Oct 2002 18:35:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.cob.rit.edu (mail.cob.rit.edu [129.21.238.35]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDEBE43E77 for ; Wed, 30 Oct 2002 18:35:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from knappster@knappster.net) Received: from [192.168.1.101] (roc-24-59-189-98.rochester.rr.com [24.59.189.98]) (authenticated bits=0) by mail.cob.rit.edu (8.12.6/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g9V2Z3SO097554; Wed, 30 Oct 2002 21:35:05 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from knappster@knappster.net) Subject: Re: static in X From: Andrew Knapp Reply-To: knappster@knappster.net To: jpmcgraw@digitalshamrock.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <3DC07FF7.F59B63B9@cox.net> References: <3DC07FF7.F59B63B9@cox.net> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.8 Date: 30 Oct 2002 21:34:44 -0500 Message-Id: <1036031692.29362.6.camel@antichrist.knappster.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I've had this problem a few times, and the solution for me was always to not use such a high color depth level. I had been trying to use 24 bit, but once I went down to 16 bit, it went away. I think this is depending on the amount of RAM on your video card...give it a shot. HTH, Andy Knapp On Wed, 2002-10-30 at 19:57, Joel McGraw wrote: > Performed a fresh upgrade (actually, wipe and install) from 4.5 to 4.7 > release. In X, any "event" (clicking, scrolling, etc.) causing static > lines that are very disconcerting and at times make it downright > unusable. I've read the documentation for my video card's driver and > tried several options, all with no success. The video card is a Diamond > Multimedia 3D 2000 which uses the S3 Virge chipset. I'm using the > "s3virge" driver. Any ideas? > > Thanks, > Joel > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message